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After mentioning hurricane season, people started asking me a lot about it. I'm not a climatologist, but I’ll share what I know. While I was living in the Dominicana, every year, from mid September to mid or late October, there were always news reports about another hurricane heading our way. But, as far as I understood, the currents and winds around the island almost always turned hurricanes away at the very last moment, so they ended up passing by. Puerto Rico on the other hand, which is just 60 km away, wasn’t so lucky most of the time

Still, that’s not always the case. In 18, I went through two hurricanes back-to-back. For the first one, we decided to wait it out in the mountains - mistake. Bavaro wasn’t even in the hurricane zone, but the place we went to got hit though not too hard. We still had a pretty fun couple of days staying in cabañas (that’s a whole other story) with pouring rain and winds strong enough to knock you over
As for the second hurricane—I'll tell you about that tomorrow

Second hurricane. We were hoping it would pass us by like the last one, so we decided not to leave. But this time, we weren’t so lucky. The eye of the storm was expected to hit Bavaro around midnight. Before the hurricane itself, everything was calm, as usual, but by evening the wind had picked up significantly. my friends and I decided to go out to the beach. Walking with the wind was fun, but coming back was tough.

The wind was so strong that it took us about 30 min to walk just 500m. We had to take off our shoes, put them on our hands, and shield our faces because the wind was whipping up sand that scratched our skin! The apartment I was renting was in a great spot—on the ocean side, but protected on two sides by a tall hotel building that acted like a wall for our residence. A large reef surrounding most of the island made it nearly impossible for big waves to form... though it didn’t save our favorite beach bar, which was completely washed away. It just vanished, along with the hotel’s beach bar

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