I Survived Hurricane Earl!

Uprooted tree

Hurricane Earl: View from my porch

playing cards

Hurricane waters from my porch

Didn't sleep to well last night because of the storm, the wind and the rain sound really scary here! Woke up this morning and winds and rain were pretty incredible (the pictures don't do this storm justice). The power/cable/internet all went out early this morning, but since we had a generator we at least had electricity. The storm ended up being a Category 2 Hurricane and while we did have some water come in, nothing in the house was damaged. One of our trees that grow this weird green fruit was uprooted, but the landlord said they would replant it with no problem. We met one of the landlord's son and our other landlord today and they helped fix the little problems we've had in the apartment so far. We now have a light in the laundry room and our pilot lights on the stove and oven are now lit and working! We gathered all the fruit that fell from the uprooted tree along with some star fruit that fell as well. Apparently the green fruit that is a little crunchy and kind of tastes similar to an apple is called a Duduberry in case you were wondering, because I was! The storm finally stopped in the evening, although there are still some strong winds, and we decided to take our neighbors up on their offer and we went to play cards with them, which was a lot of fun!