Hurricaine Dean

Hurricaine Dean only skirted Haiti. Some of the southern parts of Haiti sustained some damages, but Port au Prince, as a whole, did not.

On Sunday early morning, at around 3 a.m. the area where I am in, just outside of Port au Prince toward the north, experienced some really really strong winds and lots of rain. At one point, the winds were so strong that it was raining horizontally! I have never seen anything like that! Horizontally falling rain! The wind was really loud!

Fortunately, the really strong wind and rain only lasted for about 2-3 hours. During Sunday, there were isolated showers and gail winds blowing throughout the day, but nothing like it had been during the early morning hours.

American Airlines canceled all flights from and to Haiti for Sunday. It was way to windy for any plane to fly. I know of one person who was booked to return to the U.S. on Sunday, she was told that the earliest flight for her was one week later! I cannot believe that American Airlines would do that! Hopefully, they will provide additional planes to make up for the missed day.

During the rain and wind, the temperature really dropped. It was nice and cool and we did not even have to use fans. The funniest thing was when LuWanna went to stand on the balcony and let the winds wip around her. She said, "I really am enjoying the breeze." --- Breeze? --- I have never known anybody to call strong stormy winds - "breeze" - I thought that was so funny!

I drove to get some ice on Sunday afternoon and looked around to see if there was any damage around this area, but there was none.