Welcome to our Emergency Preparedness Blog Series! After Hurricane Maria welcomed us to St. Croix in September, we feel like we have certainly learned about surviving a disaster. We wanted to share some of that knowledge with you! For the next several weeks we will be posting each week about different topics that we have learned about. We hope that …
School, a Job, and a Change in Plans in St. Croix
Remember this post about starting home school? Yeah, me too. I published the original post on August 16th and by August 18th there was a change in plans. Life has a funny way of working out sometimes. I also know that God knows us and what we need – even better than we do most of the time. We had …
Life After Hurricane Maria
“Then a Hurricane Came and Devastation Reigned” This was our world – our new day to day life after Hurricane Maria. This was our day to day existence for the first couple of weeks after the storm. We would get up with the sun and work tirelessly until the sun was setting. There were roads to clear and yards to …
Surviving a Category 5 Hurricane in St. Croix
After staring at the National Hurricane Center’s website for what seemed like a full 2 weeks, we once again went into prep-mode as Hurricane Maria inched closer to us. As Saturday September 16th rolled around, we followed our regular storm tracking routine and found the forecast to be a Cat 1 (that’s the “lingo” here in hurricane-land). We could handle …
Hurricane Maria
When we were making the choice to move to the Caribbean it was obvious that we would be moving to a part of the world that we would have to encounter…or maybe…endure hurricanes. Little did we know that it would be so soon and so intense. I have learned that during hurricane season – and especially as a storm is …
Driving in St. Croix
We have briefly talked before about driving in St. Croix. It has its known quirks – driving on the left-hand side, lower speed limits, and winding roads. However, today was my first experience driving in St. Croix for an extended amount of time – by myself. Here in St. Croix people honk all the time. They don’t honk like they …