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Adios Hurricane Zeta

Good morning from Puerto Morelos! We are waking up to a post-Zeta morning in your favourite town in the Caribbean.

It was a long night. Our electricity quit at about 7:00, in the middle of dinner I might add, and just came back this morning at 8:00. Most of Puerto Morelos and all of Cancun that I heard from kept their electricity and internet all night.

It looks like we weathered the storm in typical Puerto Morelos fashion. There are some tree branches down and some green debris, but overall your town is fine.

I made a quick trip down to the beach and was amazed that everything looked intact. Ironically, after a storm the beach is always at its most beautiful. The sand has certainly been rearranged!

The town pier appears to be intact but definitely suffered some more damage. It was hurt by Delta too.

*This photo by the early-rising Marco Gomez of I Wanna Pizza*

Now it’s time for coffee and then we grab a broom. We’re relieved to be on the other side of this thing and we have definitely had enough of hurricane season 2020.

Hope to see you in Puerto Morelos soon! Please remember to check out our vacation rentals at our brand new site, www.VacationRentalsPM.com
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Hurricane Zeta Update 6:30 EST

26. October 2020 · Comments Off · Categories: Beach Reads The Blog · Tags: hurricane zeta, Puerto Morelos, puerto morelos beach

Starting to get dark here in Puerto Morelos. There was a break in the rain, so I ran up to the roof and shot a little video before we lost the light.

Not sure if you can see it in the video, but the waves breaking on the reef are an amazing sight. I’ve seen the Caribbean recently looking like a lake, it does not look like that tonight.

Latest intelligence has the storm hitting south of Akumal and north of Tulum. We’ve had some serious wind, some very powerful surge and a bit of sideways rain. We lost power for a couple of hours, not everyone in town did, but we have it back now. Hoping it sticks. Electricity, internet and cold beer make these things a lot easier to deal with.

It’s dark now, wind is coming up still more. Going to be a long night, but your town, and it’s many residents have been through this before…and recently!

Hasta pronto! We will do our best to keep you updated here on this FB page as the storm goes by. See you on the other side!

Rob & Joanne

www.InPuertoMorelos.com and www.vacationrentalspm.com

Zeta: Live Updates

26. October 2020 · Comments Off · Categories: Beach Reads The Blog · Tags: hurricane zeta, zeta

Hola all! We’re going to try to do live updates on this page as the storm approaches. We’ll update here as long as we have electricity and internet. If we can’t reach this page, we’ll update on our Facebook In Puerto Morelos page.

Monday 12:00 pm

The Governor has announced that everything will close at 2:00 pm so that people have time to go home and prepare for the storm. It’s still sunny right now, but the wind has picked up. Some cafes and all the souvenir stores are still open right now and a few tourists are wandering around.

The police and Protection Civil are getting people off the beach and the pier. I assume things will get pretty quiet this afternoon.

Here’s a video I shot at around noon today.

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Monday 8:00 am

**InPM’s mobile news cruiser parked in front of the lighthouse**

Well, here we go again! We didn’t ask for it, but we got it.
Zeta is a tropical storm now, but will be a hurricane when it hits us. It will not be as strong as Delta, but will likely give us more rain. The current path shows it basically slicing through the middle of Cozumel and making landfall south of Playa del Carmen.

**10:00 am Monday morning. Water is a bit choppy.**

Around town there is a general feeling of disbelief that we’re going through this again. Any storm requires a great deal of preparation including stocking up, boarding up and bringing outside stuff in. It’s exhausting, and we know we will do the reverse procedure after the storm passes. We should all be getting better at this as we’ve had three other opportunities to do this. Some people just got their internet access back in the last couple of days. There are still piles of green debris on the streets waiting to be picked up after Delta. Most people are more worried about losing electricity and internet access than they are about the storm.

***Chedraui boarding up again Monday morning***

The Governor cut off booze sales yesterday afternoon, taking some by surprise. I saw no big lineups at the grocery store yesterday, everyone is probably still pretty well stocked up after our last storm.
Right now, the sun is shining. Earlier this morning we had gusty winds and a bit of rain.

***Boats have been pulled from the water.***

We will do our best to keep you updated here on this FB page as the storm goes by. See you on the other side! Rob & Joanne www.InPuertoMorelos.com