Well, Lane came onshore just south of us a bit as a category 3 hurricane, with 125 mph winds. Praise the Lord, we haven’t heard of any major injuries or deaths related to the storm, at least around here. But we did miss being live for Savannah’s birthday party on Saturday…no power, no internet, no party for us! Darane’ has already sent us a bunch of pictures though, and we hope to talk with them later today.
Lane blew pretty well, rained pretty well too. It took our power and water beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday. Power was just restored about 2 p.m. today! We still have no water, but we’ve seen the Japame trucks out and about so we are pretty sure it’s just a matter of time.
Blessedly, we only had one broken window, and our door to the service patio, which has been stuck closed for months due the building settling, blew open and sucked a towel, two pictures and Ralph’s cowboy hat out through the open front door…all were retrieved and we got the service patio door closed again thankfully!! Water came in through every closed door and window and we sopped it up with towels and the back walls in both bedrooms are soaked through three quarters of the way down the walls. That was it for us.
Not everything in town got away as well as we did. Here are the pictures we took as we walked around town visiting folks this morning:
Blown in trash, fallen cocos, palm fronds, and lots of water on the patio:
Parts of Juan Manuel’s tree all over the road:
The wind and rain actually took the paint off on the apartment above Jacobo’s! It used to be white like the rest of the building.
Marta’s trees lost a lot of branches and the electrical pole came down!
Our neighbor’s guava tree, used to be just outside our bedroom window, now uprooted and on the neighbor’s fence:
Our neighbor’s across the street lost most of the tin roof of their garage:
The river flowing full and fast in the background, a ruined road and downed trees, about five blocks from our house:
There’s a pharmacy up the hill from us that lost it’s big, curved plate glass windows in the wind!
The tree in the Red Cross clinic parking lot…blown over and took out the concrete and rebar post as well as two lengths of iron fencing with it.
Only three story commercial building in La Cruz, windows blown out. It’s been empty and for sale since we’ve been here.
One of the many trees that line the streets downtown.
A tree’s branches broke off and fell on this parked truck.
Mexico’s Independence Day celebrations began Friday night and were to continue on Saturday, but Lane had other plans…these were some of the food booths near the plaza.
The roof of the gazebo in the plaza was heavily damaged.
One of the plaza shops that occupy a historic building downtown lost it’s awning.
This and several other directional and business signs were down from the wind:
The clock on the tower of the Catholic church is destroyed:
The CFE troops getting ready to hit the road for electrical repairs…there were lots of lines down.
This electrical sign came right off a building, ripping the wires loose:
Valdez, where we bought our refrigerator and washer, lost their half wall above their entryway:
A wall that surrounds a vacant lot downtown partially came down:
Our wet bedroom wall:
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