here's a report from Cayo....

getting the cattle out of the yard! many fences down, some trees pruned by the master, leaf city in yard, and now the lovely nelores are in the yard, nick loves it. will see who shows up for work, keeping us all young here. have not checked your cacao cathedral along the river derry... think the big trees, the giant cedars ok there too, are ok here, but there was some cracking and popping in the night.

for my part, i was doing emails about 9(?) telling folks we are fine, then power out, climbed under the table to stop that beeping on ups, when came up totally disoriented ! had pulled down drapes, plus not much moon early in evening... and then the overcast too... luckily some in back of house came to rescue me before i banged into too much. remember there are 7 directions, the 4 cardinals, plus up, down and inward. i was a bit confused on all 7 counts, haha.

john is just back from barn.. we rose together at dawn, to survey what we could.. we are thankful. spoke to jenny down south, doc - she says of 10, they are nearly 10 still. bmp was hit badly, understand that many trees down, no water in san ig, or elec. we are on generator, thank you fossil fuels.

roads are completely blocked up, the cristo rey road, imagine more blocked in town too, heard that western hwy blocked too... so, will be loss for some, profit for some, cleaning up, etc.
wondering how the mennonites fared with the rest of the corn harvest, if they got it in first.

our rain guage says 3 inches, because i think it only collects VERTICAL rain, not the slant or horozontal. will get the rain amt from the guys that supply us records in spanish lkt. today. (if their e is on... expect it will be,) that side of the river used to independent days, as are we. just not set up for it like in the old maya ranch days...
we got into wasps, using ammonia on the stings - we were crossing/clearing/chopping with his machete, the stuff blocking roads in the ranch. forever young, my man. or so he feels.

so don't worry, we are fine! having roast picana for dinner... hope the elec returns so we don't have to clean out the freezer, but we will be fine. (generator too tiny )
sun is out, and we are dry and thankful. dalia just phoned (housekeeper) tree fell on her mother's house in cristo rey, nearly totaled, wood hse. says overall village is fine.

Black Rock, Hidden Valley, DuPlooys, reporting no damage, couple trees down.

love and good wishes to all !