Hurricane Delta in Cancun: underwhelming · 1:50am Oct 8th, 2020
Hi.
It wasn't wild. Far milder than it had any right to be, in fact.
Fifteen years ago, Wilma came and I bunkered my home as hard as I could.
Yesterday, Delta came, and didn't have time to bunker that hard my home, and couldn't bunker at all the other house (the house were I spent Wilma).
Delta was very lacklustre. Wilma could be felt coming in your bones, hours and hours before it actually hit, and the hit then lasted 72 hours, 48 of which were with actual hurricane force. The winds also howled so hard that I couldn't sleep at all the first night. Delta, on the other hand, was due to hit at 2am, but the wind didn't howl hard enough to wake me up until 5am, and was completely over by the time I woke up again at 9am. My mother and I were in fact so nonplussed that we stayed bunkered up until around noon, once we were absolutely convinced that no, we weren't enjoying the slowest eye-of-the-storm ever. My home was perfectly fine, but what really surprised me was the other one, the one I didn't have a chance to prepare: it was quite peachy. The windows looked recently washed and some paint was peeling, but nothing to compare with Wilma kicking in doors and sand-blasting facades.
And one hour ago, I got electricity again. I didn't spend a full day without. Last time, fifteen years ago, it took the Commission an average time of a week to get us back, mainly because of lightposts toppling like dominoes.
So, October 2020 surprised me with a really underwhelming class 4 hurricane.
Yay?
I feel like I'm waiting for the other boot to drop, because I've had it worse with class 1 or 2 hurricanes in the past.