Well, the Category 5 Hurricane Patricia missed us, big time. It came ashore at a sparsely populated area rather farther south of Puerto Vallarta, so our friend who had recently moved there only got rain and a lot of wind overnight. [Whew!] His mother and some other relatives were visiting at the time. Glad they're all safe.
Here in San Miguel - after the storm passed through several sets of mountains, diluting its strength - we only received a gentle, night-long rain followed in the morning with a warm breeze. I was rather disappointed that everything occurred while we were asleep!
There were times in my youth when electrical storms would arrive in southern Indiana and my mother would discover me kneeling on my bed, propped up on my elbows, looking out the open window, watching the lightning! Yes, I got a lecture each time - but it's so easy to say 'Yes; I understand' and then do it the next time anyway! And somehow she knew just where to find me whenever there was a storm...but it was magical! Now if only our dogs didn't freak out over thunder and lightning....
I understand that the storm made its way across Mexico and is now tearing up Texas with flash floods as it moves into Louisiana and points east. I'd feel sorry for the Texans if there were any reasons to do so. [Sorry, friends there live there. You knew what Texas was like and you still moved there!]
In a side note, the pain-in-the-ass person in San Miguel, who complained bitterly about the moderators on our SMA Civil List who refused to let him post the US Embassy warning on the List because it warned US citizens to avoid the west coast of Mexico (many, many hours away from San Miguel - it's a two-day trip when we go to the beach) because it wasn't San-Miguel-related (one of the guidelines for using the Civil List), has been removed from the Civil List when he was agitating to remove the moderators from their 'cushy jobs'. ( Most members don't appreciate their faults being pointed out to them; it's a volunteer position; you spend a lot of time teaching people who are too lazy to find out on their own how to do things on Yahoo groups; did I say it was a volunteer position; there are only three moderators for over 9100 members...you get the picture.) A former employee of the New York City Board of Education, he still has that 'I know better than thou' attitude.
Hope he'll be happy on his own Facebook page! We note that he hasn't revealed that he has been bounced from the List...probably too crushing to his ego. [evil laughter]
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