I love electricity!

We finally had a good nights sleep! The electricity was on ALL night so we cranked the air and slept like babies! It was so nice! It is still going on and off today but as long as it works at night I'm happy! I'm pretty sure at this point I will be throwing most of the food away because I can't figure out what is still good and what isn't and I'm not really interested in getting food poisoning if I'm wrong! Luckily, we didn't have much at all in the freeze so I won't be out much. The water has been mostly on, so that has been nice.

So we made it through our first and probably only hurricane. Many things that our on the coast were demolished. A family from AUC lost everything they own and were trapped in their apartment. Bliss and the Sunset Beach Bar (where you watch the planes come in) are completely gone. But the only damage to the areas away from the coast is mainly tree damage.

So here are some pictures of the wrath of Omar. Here is what we saw when we walked out the first time. Just a lot of limbs and leaves everywhere.

Dave had to get out his machete and cut down a bunch of broken limbs and I swept the area.
When we walked out to our parking spot we found this roof on the car we have been using.
Luckily, the only damage was a cracked windshield and a few minor scratches.

This is the jeep of one of Dave's professors. The tree fell right on it.
This is damage on the golf course.
The road was completely flooded.
This is the only road in or out of our town.
This is the golf course....the swells were so large they brought sand the whole way over the golf course. It was insane to see all that sand so far from the beach.
A view of an uprooted tree and the flooded road.
Just how deep the water was.
Many people felt like they had places to go...this man's van died in the middle of the water.
Some thought driving on the golf course would be a better idea...those people spent the next hour digging their cars out of the sand!

Here's Reece enjoying his new personal lake!

Here is the Sunset Beach Bar...hmmm no watching the planes now!
And here is the parking lot of a place called Bliss...Bliss is now out in the parking lot.
Wow, sure glad we got one more thing to check off on our experiences in St Maarten. Hmmm I don't want anymore like this though!