California 2 Puerto Rico

When I first moved to California, I didn’t notice many signs of the seasons changing. The weather changes a bit, but compared to the East Coast, the seasons barely changed at all. After living there for a couple of years, I really started to notice the much less apparent signs of the seasons changing. I wonder if it is going to be the same for me here in Puerto Rico where there are only two seasons; Rainy Season (summer) and Dry Season (winter).

I have been blogging about watering our plants every day until rainy season starts (and hanging the rain gutters) but I haven’t had to touch the hose for almost a week now. It has been raining in the afternoons a bunch and for a few days, we had a low pressure system over us that sent cool weather and non-stop drizzle for two days.

Another big afternoon rain storm just hit about an hour ago and it prompted me to check the weather forecast.

Yep, that’s right. Rain, rain, rain and more rain.

Could rainy season be on Rincon Puerto Rico already?

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Stefan, Kuta, Monkey, Cheech and I were planting palms behind the house yesterday, trying to pimp out the backyard. We got two Areca Catechu’s in the ground and we were trying to figure out where to plant the red palm that we got from Montoso Gardens. Stefan figured out where it would look good and starting digging with the pickaxe…dig dig dig, dirt, rock, dirt, rock, rock, Medalla can, rock, dirt, THUNK. Uh oh.

Unfortunately we didn’t hit buried treasure. And the only gold we saw was a buried Medalla can. A sure sign that the plumber had been here a one time.

Stefan turned to me and asked if I remember where the ditch was that we layed the sewage line. I took a look at the house and then at the septic tank and it was pretty much a straight line where Stefan was standing with the pickaxe.

Whoops!

So we put our landscaping plan on hold and Stefan ran to the ferrateria (hardware store) to try and get some pipe to repair our septic line. Unfortunately it was Saturday at 3pm and all of the ferraterias were closed. Luckly, there is a plumber that lives in our neighborhood and Stefan found some scrap pipe in his yard.

We cut out the damaged part of the pipe and definately did some ghetto style plumbing. But after 2.5 hours, it works and it doesn’t leak, so mission accomplished.

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Well folks, we have another Tropical Storm out in the Atlantic. Mark was telling me while we were driving around this morning and he seems to think that Puerto Rico is about due for a Hurricane. Now, I am not going to give mark as much credit as I give Dr. Lyons but it made me a little weary, especially after the high winds, rain and tornado that just hit our house yesterday.

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I talked to Stefan today and he was telling me about some freak weather that hit our house in Rincon, Puerto Rico today. I believe Stefan said there were 60ish mile per hour winds and a bunch of trees on our property got knocked down.

Apparently, he just got confirmation that a toronado hit Sector Vargas in Rincon, Puerto Rico (which is smack dab where our house is). Luckly the house in still standing :). Hopefully Stefan will get some internet connection soon and fill us in…

Ok…so it was officially a tornado. There was sleet and very high winds…but they only lasted about 10 minutes with a two or three minute period being extreme winds…I am guessing that was the tornado going over our house. Trees on both sides of our house as well as all the overgrown weeds were pushed flat. We had about 13 trees that were knocked over (one big one about 70 feet tall next to our house…luckily, gravity was on our side and it fell towards the quebrada) and our trash cans (filled with concrete debris tile and trash bags) and long furniture ended up in the field behind our house. Check out some pictures…No damage to the house besides some a few cracks in a cement wall from the house getting twisted around

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