Considering the satellite doesn’t show much of anything over Bequia, it’s very wet here…seems like this past week has been little sunshine, frequent showers, drizzle and downpours…some wind…it was gusty last night and we have some branches down and lost our electricity (just after Danny shot the assassin in last nights episode of Blue Bloods…guess we’re going to have to wait for reruns to find out what happened)…just had another deluge come through…we seem to spend our time running around the house opening and closing doors and windows as needed to keep the rain out, and then to let the breeze in between downpours…I’ve given up on having my patio cushions out for now…the water tanks are full and the gardens are lush so that’s great…got our electricity back this morning around 8, so it wasn’t too much of a hardship, though it was pitch black when the electricity went off and we had to grope our way around to find flashlights…

Other than some light drizzles earlier the rains started about mid day yesterday, and rained pretty much the rest of the day and into the night…when we went to bed it was still raining…woke up to lots of gusty wind and brighter though still overcast skies…according to our rain gauge we received just under 3 inches of rain...just a few rocks down in the road above us that must have slipped from the rain, and bits of branches broken off in the wind so far…the winds are quite gusty so who knows what might come yet…

Saturday night and Sunday morning we were rocking and rolling all night long with lots of thunder and lightning…I finally drifted off to sleep counting the time off between thunder and lightning trying to figure out how far the storm was away and whether we’d get any much needed rain from it…we did...through the night and pretty much all day Sunday…today started off looking ugly too, but the sun is currently shining, though off to the east it looks like there might be more cloud cover and rain heading our way…looking at the satellite pics it seems that we might be in the middle of the wave, so there might be another day of rain to come…

We’re so grateful for the rain as it was getting really dry here…I have a primitive rain gauge which I’m sure is not accurate, but it looks like we got about 1 ¼ inches, maybe a little more…not a huge amount, but every little bit helps…

Another benefit of a full day of no sunshine and rain was the temperature dropped giving us a respite from the intense heat that everybody has been complaining about...now that the sun is shining it’s up to 83F which is still  a  little cooler than normal…

It’s quite gusty in Bequia this morning…clouds are rapidly moving to the north…if you look at them too long you get vertigo they are moving that quickly…then again maybe that’s just me, since I can get sea sick in a hammock…

The wind gusts feel great and are blowing the mosquitos away…the sun is currently shining through the gaps in the clouds…a few rumbles of thunder and the cloud coming up from the south is gloomy grey and thick so it looks like we’ve got some more rain coming shortly…

While eating lunch the breeze picked up, and by the time we were finished it started to rain quite heavily…had to close the windows on the west side of the house, and the door on the north…opposite to normal…sea is still quite flat…

8 am in Bequia…it’s been showering gently for a few hours now…temperature is much cooler than normal right now, about 76F…my two thermometers disagree and I don’t know which one is correct so I split the difference…there is just a whisper of a breeze stirring the air…the sea looks pretty flat, but there is a little surge going on across Spring Bay…looks like we are in for a long damp day with possible thunderstorms…very likely wet tomorrow too…

Looking at the satellite photos and forecasts, it looks like the eye of the storm, which is massive, is going to go over Guadeloupe sometime tonight, so they’ll be getting torrents of rain…hope everyone to the north is battening down the hatches…it sure looks like Isaac is going to become a hurricane…

I’m not sure what time the wind started to blow and the rain to pound in the night, but it seemed like it rained off and on all night, sometimes the noise on the roof was battering and other times a light shower…I was surprised to see this morning that we only got a little over ¾ of an inch of rain, and a scattering of twigs down along the road and in the gardens…it’s brightening to the east now and it looks like the sun will shine and dry everything up again…the Atlantic looks just a little rougher than normal and it’s a little noisier than usual…

So sorry to hear about all the damage in Trinidad & Tobago…sounds like they might have taken the brunt of the system…

It’s clouding over in Bequia and we can hear thunder off in the distance…presumably we’ll be getting some rain soon…meanwhile there is a nice breeze but it’s very hot and humid…