Its May, and Happy Mother’s Day to all Caribbean
Mothers!
Grand Bahama is currently enduring high temps and long power
outages as our Power company goes through their usual ‘beginning of
summer and not prepared for the heat mode’. They continue to charge us what
is probably the highest power rates in the entire Caribbean. I
am hoping that the temperature will drop back to a lovely low 80s for the rest
of the month and we hold the summer heat off until June as previous summers
have done.
We experienced the COLDEST winter on Record this year.
It was unbelievable. During the months of January and February the
temperatures hovered around 69 day and 51 nights. Without heat in the
house my husband and I went to bed earlier and earlier, piling on the covers.
It was not as dry as usual as the cold fronts would bring a
little rain before the record low temps swept through. We just never had
enough warm days to warm up the cement block again before the next front would
arrive.
My tomatoes were fantastic this year…..the rest of the
garden was stunted and the snails got very fat!
And As for the Hurricane season fast approaching, as I write
from the island with one of the highest probabilities of hurricane landfall in
the Caribbean I wish everyone a safe and non memorable one.
Oh yes, Dear Bahamas Government, PLEASE give us Donna
Duncombe and our Weather Station at the Airport Back!!!!!
