San Pedro Coastline at Night
We knew it was dark. The electricty had just gone out. This is not unusual. Without lights, the Caribben coastline here looks like this picture. So does our house ...
We use a fan at night to keep us cooler and to ward off mosquitoes (they don't like the moving air). So, when the electric went, the heat and mosquitoes moved in.
Our bedroom fan is shown to the right. The stand for this fan fell apart about four years ago, but we built a wooden stand and the motor seems to be just fine with a bit of oil or WD-40 from time to time.
About an hour after the electricity went out, the phone rang. It was our daughter Natalia calling from Cincinnati to check on us because of the big fire in San Pedro. Seems that the local electric generator (it was the most fuel efficient and environmentally friendly generator in the country) that sits on a barge at the river's edge had blown up somehow and caused a huge fire. No one hurt (rather amazingly) so far as we have heard.
One of Natalia's high school classmates who lives about 15 Km down the coast had seen the sky lit-up by the fire. She was on-line the same time as Natalia, and that is how Natalia heard about what was happening.
The next morning, employees at the Clinic said that people along the coast to the east of us had called them last night; it looked like the whole city was on fire, they were told. It was relatively less impressive from our end of town.
We had just a bit of electricity over the next several days (a few hours here and there) as they rotated the San Pedro area into the national grid from time to time. After four days, things returned to normal. Still outages from time to time, but no call from Cincinnati to inform what is going on.
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