{"id":787,"date":"2017-09-20T07:47:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T06:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bosshard.net\/blog\/?p=787"},"modified":"2018-10-17T13:14:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T12:14:36","slug":"hurricane-maria-september-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bosshard.net\/blog\/?p=787","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane MARIA – September 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The entire green top of the trellis lies bent 45\u00b0 forward into the pool, leaving the backside bare, In the front, the pathway to the stairway<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Luckily, Nevis was not at all affected from hurricane IRMA 2 weeks ago. Neighboring island like Barbuda, Antigua, St. Martin and St. Barth were heavily damaged though.<\/p>\n

Hurricane MARIA came in on a slightly different path, hit Dominica in a very bad way and then came directly to Nevis, hitting on Tuesday around 2 pm with heavy winds and torrential rains.<\/p>\n

We lost some trees and frangipani, as well as the trellis on the east side of the pool deck which gave those lounging under it a fine natural green shade and those above in the house a weekly change of new flowering of a clematis-like beautiful local plant.<\/p>\n

Due to the continuous very heavy showers, it seems that the cistern started to fill up quickly and even overflowed into the bedrooms, the living room, and kitchen too. Obviously, the existing overflow pipe was insufficient to take care of the vast quantities of downpour. The hatches which would become the final exit for water to escape from the cistern were wrongly placed in the bedrooms instead of outside the house when it was built in the 1980\u2019s \u2026<\/p>\n

David Johnson, our caretaker living in the house could obtain a pump and after 5 hours working it, he got all the water out of all rooms at which time the heavy rains started once again….<\/p>\n

If I have further important information, I will make updates as and when it becomes available.<\/p>\n

Uschi and I expect to return by December 20th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Luckily, Nevis was not at all affected from hurricane IRMA 2 weeks ago. Neighboring island like Barbuda, Antigua, St. Martin and St. Barth were heavily damaged though. Hurricane MARIA came in on a slightly different path, hit Dominica in a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bosshard.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bosshard.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bosshard.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bosshard.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bosshard.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bosshard.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"https:\/\/bosshard.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bosshard.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bosshard.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bosshard.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}