{"id":4912,"date":"2015-10-06T11:50:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T11:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=4912"},"modified":"2015-10-06T12:19:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T12:19:12","slug":"spared-by-joaquin-not-so-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=4912","title":{"rendered":"Spared by Joaquin? Not so the Bahamas."},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Tuesday morning and hurricane Joaquin is only a distant memory. \u00a0Well, at least for those of us that were spared the brunt of the storm. \u00a0Here on the CT River the worst we were exposed to was higher than normal tides.<\/p>\n

Others were not so lucky. \u00a0Some in the Bahamas, particularly on Rum Cay, a spot where we spend some time a few years back, really got slammed. I understand that the government pier, the only landing point of any consequence on the island, is gone. \u00a0This pier, and it was a fairly substantial one, is just\u00a0match sticks now. \u00a0 Here’s what it looked like when we were there. \u00a0 That pier was the only link that they had to get supplies. \u00a0The water leading up to the pier was barely deep enough for the mail boat to power through, leaving huge plumes\u00a0of swirling sand in their wake.\u00a0\"\"<\/a>When the mail boat came in during our visit, about everybody on the island showed up to enjoy the spectacle and pick up their supplies. \u00a0 Check out this link to my post<\/a> about\u00a0the mail boat and this important lifeline.<\/p>\n

Rum Cay is a beautiful place but I expect that this marina looks very different now, if you can get in at all.\u00a0\"OLYMPUS<\/a>Few hurricanes cause much damage in the Bahamas, partly because the residents don’t build right on the beach like we do here in the States. \u00a0However, as the islands are so low, most areas only a few feet above sea level, an occasional direct hit, like they got last week, causes great destruction. \u00a0It’s going to take a while for them to recover from this blow.<\/p>\n

This video gives you an idea of the speed of the winds that battered the islands. This was taken from the second floor of a home and most of the islanders have only one story homes so the flooding hit them particularly hard.