i know what they're going through -
For our third wedding anniversary, with toddler in tow, we went to Jamaica, to stay with my parents who were working there at the time - The day after we arrived, hurricane Gilbert devasted the Island form one end to the other. The next 3 weeks were spent with no electricty, rationed food, terrible sanitation, unpassable roads & unusable beaches. The days were spent finding groceries or holed up in one of the hotels where they at least had generators to provide cold drinks & a break from the hot/humid weather. There was a 6 o'clock curfew everynight because of the looters, so evenings were spent by candlelight at home, drinking warm beer/wine - The only highlight, in a strange way, was to pass through the eye of a hurricane - 160 mile an hour winds changed in an instant to an eeire calm & bright sunshine. 45 minutes later as we were surveying the damage (quite minimal at this stage as the trees, electricity poles etc were just leaning, but not uprooted), there was a howl as the wind whipped up into an instant frenzy, but in the opposite direction to the first phase. This had the effect of uprooting the weakened trees & hurling debris etc everywhere - this is when the cathostropic damage really happened...
Certainly was an anniversary to remember :blink:
