Category: Bermuda

Once the eye of the storm was on us, it felt like the storm was over! It sat on us for probably 6 hours as the storm slowed and the eye started getting bigger. Then as it finally moved away we experienced the second half of the storm but it was no longer a hurricane, it was more like just a rainy windy day at that point.

We lost power on a Friday night at about 8:30 and then we got it back Sunday overnight in time to have power again for Monday. Well, they’re OK because of course we have the generator to run those things but without the AC going the humidity was just ridiculous in the house. LOL

After the hurricane, we unfortunately lost a large branch from our favorite avocado tree, which fell directly on the driveway. One of the banana trees with a bunch of bananas also toppled over, so we’ll be bringing those in, ready or not. As usual, there are a bunch of avocados scattered across the grass. I protected my basil plants, and they turned out great after the storm.

So on April 8th, we had a total solar eclipse in parts of North America. Here in Bermuda, we got a 50% eclipse. Everybody contends with a lot of clouds.

I followed a live stream that was put on by the University of Toronto and so I got some good screenshots from their feed. It was funny because everybody initially was having technical difficulties positioning their telescopes to point at the sun because of the clouds. But eventually, we got some really good views.

It was cool how it got all dark and eerie at the highest point of the eclipse.

When it came here in Bermuda, I was able to capture some kind of image with my phone and also glimpse it through some breaks in the clouds. The picture turned out neat because I used an action shot thinking it was going to give me the quickest exposure. I had no luck capturing the eclipse on the sun itself however I got some pretty accurate representations in the lens reflections!

In Peterborough, they were able to go to a lake nearby and see the total eclipse, including what looked like sunsets on all sides.

Even though we got two hurricanes this year, and one passed pretty much over us…

the only damage we really got was one fallen tree and it got stood back up again. And of course, I had many bags of avocados to give away as usual lol.

Another one later in October just took a peek then turned around. 🙂