Thursday, November 17, 2011

The Bahamas a nice, warm, and relaxing, until the storm. It was the third day on my vacation and no one was expecting a giant hurricane. It all came to soon. All at residents and employes at the Regga De Blanc Hotel where told to find cover under a table or bed, something that would protect us. But as for me I was only under part of the table trying my best to help cover my wife and kids so they would not be injured by the hurricane and it's strong winds. As all of this is happening I was struck by a somewhat small piece of two by four that had been broken up by the hurricane, and as it was flying around it broke through a large window in our room which nailed me me directly in the head. I was so very lucky that it tumbled around for a while making the impact as only strong as if it had fallen ten feet and hit me. I was knocked out cold and was in and out of unconsciousness for forty-eight hours until the hurricane was through. After the wretched storm had passed I was one of many to received treatment. As I started to feel better I reviewed the damage surrounding me. Everyone was scurrying about helping clean up what we could. No one was at their regular jobs except for the doctors and emergency services. No one kid was playing, all where doing their part to help out. Through the rest of our vacation my family and I also helped clean up. We helped get clean water and much more. Some undamaged surrounding countries also sent help which we took gladly. My family later found out that the hurricane was named Kyle and only a small F1 which explains the little damage. We also found out that they had been tracking it for only hours and did not have enough time to respond to where it was heading and who to alert so we could be ready. It really goes to show how much the people that find the hurricanes needs to be on the ball and be ready. If they had been faster to tell the countries where the hurricanes path might be, the countries in the path of the destructive hurricane could be ready to alert it's people. But all in all everyone seemed to be Ok and not much damage hurricane Kyle.