Edge of the storm

San Jose del Cabo, BCS, Mexico

A day for staying put!

We awoke this morning to the sound of howling winds and rain pounding on the windows of our room.  After looking at the latest storm tracks and looking out the window, we have decided to stay here in San Jose for another night.

The wind and rain is not so bad that it would normally stop us, but even the hotel staff are telling us it might not be a good idea to try the highway today.  There are some low spots on the road that will most likely flood and make the going treacherous.  We drove around town a bit this morning and found that a lot of the historic district is unreachable due to flooding on the narrow streets.  There is little drainage in the older part of town and what there is seems to be working backwards, with water coming out of the sewers into the streets.  Instead, we holed up at the nearby MacDonald's for a coffee (the Starbucks was just too crowded), then retreated to our room to wait out the worst of the storm.

Earlier today we walked down to the beach just to see the storm surge - pretty impressive and not a place I would like to be on a boat.  Seeing as how we are just on the edge of the hurricane, it is hard to imagine what they are facing further north.  As I write this, the eye of the storm has just made landfall in the vicinity of Mag bay, one of the stops we made two years ago on our way down the coast from San Diego.  It looks like the storm will steadily weaken now and be mostly a memory for us by this time tomorrow.  It appears that La Paz is also getting only a small taste of hurricane Paul and we are not anticipating any issues with the boat in Marina de La Paz.  I guess we dodged a bullet this time.

Looking towards the coast from the Mega shopping mall during a pause in the rainfall.
That is our little blue Dodge all by itself in the parking lot.

Oh look, the sun just peeked out for a few minutes.  Must be a good sign...

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