HURRICANE MATTHEW AFTERMATH CONTINUES

Lamp post destroyed

We heard on the news today that Bahamas Power and Light has restored power to 80% of their customers on New Providence and that they expect full restoration by the end of this week. Great Harbour Cay apparently has had 90% of their power restored and North and Central Andros 50%.

Some children will sadly be without uniform after homes have been destroyed or damaged and personal belongings lost, so the Ministry of Education has asked teachers to exercise leniency with this. Also, they are trying to provide uniforms for those school children who have lost theirs.

The news announcer stated that there were thunderstorms during Hurricane Matthew. One house was hit by lightening and the roof caught fire.

I spoke to someone on Grand Bahama yesterday and he said he expects power to be restored to his office by the end of this week. Other reports are that many people on that island will have to wait weeks for restoration by the Grand Bahama Power Company.

There is so much suffering here in The Bahamas as a result of Hurricane Matthew.

CUTTING A WATERSPOUT!

The violent thunderstorms yesterday had our social media buzzing. Erskine said he spotted waterspouts in the distance as he was passing the Lynden Pindling Airport, not AT the airport as someone from here told an American TV station when they sent them a photo of a waterspout mistakenly described as a tornado forming!

Cars were lined up on the airport road, residents fascinated by nature’s powerful formations. The waterspouts didn't come on land, but stayed out on the sea.

When he was a growing up on Long Island Erskine says they used to “cut” the waterspouts as they appeared in the distance. One of the ways they did this was by pointing their arms towards the waterspouts and using a cutting motion with one wrist across the other. Other methods were to use two sticks or a fork and knife. Erskine says he doesn’t know if it was coincidence, but the waterspouts would dissolve!

Click here for a Tribune article "Waterspouts over Lake Killarney"