I’m fine. Could have been worse.
While I suffered a power cut yesterday, July 2nd, from about 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and the water has been off since yesterday morning, there are houses that have lost their roofs or suffered damage from fallen trees and flooding.
The damage to our property was minimal with only a few broken branches, avocados shaken from the tree and a television antenna blown from the roof.
Storms Arriving Earlier
Elsa (formed July 1st) broke last year’s fifth named storm appearance record by five days. That storm (Edouard, formed on July 6th, 2020), had previously beat the record set in 2005 (!) by six days (!) for the earliest appearance of the Atlantic’s fifth storm of the season.
It’s also the farthest east that a hurricane has formed this early in the tropical Atlantic – the average is mid-August – and our closest brush since 1933.
When recording the above video, I still thought it was a storm (note the ignorant bliss in my tone) but it’d already just past West of Barbados and was categorised as a hurricane.
COVID, a volcano erupts…welcome hurricane season.
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