As they say - we dodged a bullet this time. What a relief for us - Hurricane Lisa shifted north prior to making landfall in Belize. Our relief was at the expense of Belize City - which experienced a sudden but impressive storm surge followed by extensive post-hurricane flooding. The brunt of the damage was to the poorest communities with sub-standard (even for Belize) housing. Although there was property damage, I have not heard of any lives lost. The only real impact Lisa had on me and Dennis was the nationwide outage of telecommunications. We had some limited phone service restored on Friday (Lisa made landfall on Wednesday) and then on Sunday had full phone service and internet again. Power was out over most of Belize for about a day, with it mostly restored by Sunday. That didn't affect us since we have our own solar power system.
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| Looking to the southeast this afternoon - clear, calm sea. |
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| Barnie enjoying a little sit-down after her walk. |
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| Just look at her gorgeous Little Richard eyes! |
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| Happy Clove. |
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| Happier Clove. |
