Not so stormy

So it turns out that had we never left our little wooden house, we wouldn't have known that Tropical Storm Matthew had any effect on Caye Caulker at all. It didn't rain and all we could see at our home was the wind in the trees...but not such wind as to make us go inside to get out of it. It was more the kind of wind to get us to bring out the camera. Fun wind! The only damage we are aware of was from the high water tossing around loose boards on piers and pushing rocks and sea grass up onto the beach and peoples' property. Those with beachfront property had a day or two of cleanup.

If it ever got up to 50+ mph, we didn't notice.

Big Water

  We went out walking and here is a dock I was taking a picture of because the water was up so high. So I wasn't expecting what happened literally 10 seconds later...
  Whoa!
  Here is the dock at Morgan's Inn on a peaceful, normal morning.
  Here it is today! Look at what happened to the planks.

This morning around 10...

  Whoa! wasn't expecting that...
  this is normally a beach for walking.
  stormy pretty
  yay puddles!

Stormy storm storm

On Thursday night (9/23) we were hearing that a hurricane the likes of the super devastating Keith was headed directly for us. We decided we'd go inland and sent lodging inquiries out to several places in Cayo, woke up Friday morning and started making plans to get out off the island sooner rather than later. Within a couple of hours we saw that the path had changed and the hurricane had been downgraded to a tropical storm. Now here we are a day later and we are not technically in the path of Matthew but we are getting the winds and soon it will be pretty darn loud and scary and rainy. But not dangerous. Southern Belize and Honduras, not so lucky. But it is not a hurricane....yay! So we have learned that there is a lot of excitement around this stuff and that you kinda just gotta chill and make back-up plans and wait and see.

I'll update later and let you know how "chill" I feel after the 50+mph winds.