Sly Fox wrote: ↑July 3rd, 2021, 9:41 am
We had a close call in June. Yeah, this looks like this could be an active season like last year. Hopefully a Cat I just slides on by you, Olldflame. But I do feel for those in Haiti who had endured way too many storms in recent years and lack the infrastructure necessary to withstand much of anything.
It's God's punishment for the voodoo practitioners. (Just kidding. I have Haitian neighbors here, and more than once have heard them comment about how the storms always hit their former home and it is one of the reasons they don't think they will ever go back).
Actually, the biggest reason so many died in the Haitian earthquake was the fact that a lot of houses which in the past would have had thatch or tin roofs were built with concrete roofs specifically to protect against hurricane winds. Not enough $$ left for the amount of re-bar needed for a degree of earthquake protection, and the result was thousands crushed to death.
Elsa has pretty much come and gone here with no real effect except that the fishermen were not allowed to go out this morning and all the restaurants and bars lining the local beach were not allowed to open til 1PM.