After The Storm

It has been 1 week since hurricane Gustav came by us. It was projected to hit us but then turned north and just passed about 40-50 miles away from our coast. When it came by it was a cat 1 then around 2 A.M. it turned to a cat 2. We were all preparing for it to go directly over so all the houses and business had storm windows closed, or boards on all the doors and windows. Everything closed on Friday and we just waited for the storm to come. We got some rain Friday afternoon and the winds started to pick up as the evening progressed. By 10 P.M. It was pretty windy but we hadn't really had much rain. At about 1:00 A.M. Austin and I went outside just by our apartment. I can't even describe how almost majestic it was. The sky was a light grey from all the clouds and there was this wonderful citrus like smell in the air. We kept getting these blue flashes that lit up the sky. (We found out later from listening to the radio that it was a electric transformer blowing and that is what the blue was, but it was still pretty cool) I wanted to stay outside just to smell the air. We went back in and listened to the radio until about 2 a.m. then went to bed. The smaller Cayman Islands got most of the hurricane and had quite a bit of flooding, but Grand Cayman only had minimal damage.

The next night it was still pretty windy so we went to see what the ocean looked like. We went to this little spot called Smith Cove that has a lot of rocks and some beach and this is what we found. I didn't get a lot of the biggest waves and crashes on video but you get the idea.

It was so cool to see the waves roll in and then crash into the rocks. You could feel the power they had when they would crash. We stood there and watched them for about 1 hour. Here are a few of the pictures that I took. I wish that my camera captured the true light of the sunset.

I also loved to watch the water cascade off the rocks after a wave would hit.

I loved this picture of Austin holding Kaity looking at the waves. I had to have my camera on a night setting and because of the wind I couldn't hold it still enough to get a clear picture. This is the clearest on I could get. It was cute Austin kept pointing out to the waves and then I would see Kaity point too. (those ones were all to blurry)

Finally we let Allie and Kaity play in the waves. I got in with them and held onto them as the waves went crashing into us. They loved it, and would have stayed all night doing that.

We got really lucky that the storm just passed us by and we didn't have much damage. It was a really neat and I am glad I got to experience it.