Hurricane Felix and the big dinner
September 3rd, 2007Yesterday I was skyping with Paul. Which was pretty weird because he was in the middle of hurricane Felix. This is what the NRC says about it in Dutch: “Felix passeerde Curaçao overigens op circa 90 kilometer afstand. Volgens het KNMI is het niet eerder gebeurd dat een orkaan zo dicht langs dat eiland raasde. (ANP)”
So during all this wind violence he was telling me (skype chat) that he almost was crashing against the isle nearby. And that the couldn not go anyhere else because they were not able to get the ancor up. The generator broke down right that very moment. And that is needed for power for the electric ancor winch.
So the only thing that was left was power up the motor to stay away from the shore. In the mean time the wind was blowing with 40 to 60 nautical miles per hour, that is roughly 70 to 110 km/ph. with very strong lightning above there head.
In the mean time I was preparing for the big dinner downstairs because of the tenth aniversery of our building. Pincoffs reveald by some official, lots of people, and a very good diner with nice people and even a belly dancer.
Never had such an astranging experience before. I was happy to know that when I went downstairs, the wind was calming down and they were able to get coffee on the Grote Meid.