Flooding in Mexico

The next morning the surf was rougher and we could see rain coming

It soon got darker.

And started to rain.

And rain, and rain!

Water flowed into the parking lot.

Pretty soon, water was flowing into our hotel room too! Water was coming in under both the front door, and the sliding glass door to the patio! Déjà vu! Just like back home in Tucson. It’s my karma. Except this time it was quite a lot of water, not just a little piddling puddle. We were wringing out the bath towels into a plastic trash can.

There was also quite a lot of erosion, with flowing sand and mud.

This wasn’t our unit, this was the big fancy middle one. It comes with its own moat.

The whole place was empty. It was mid-week and we were the only ones there. The fact that we were completely on our own made it seem more surreal.

Water ponded in the parking lot and then flowed out the other side and down the hill. The water was never deep, just a lot of mud.

Mud, mud, mud! My favorite!

Mud and gullies through the sand.

Everything just seemed so precarious. Those fancy beach houses and vacation rentals are built on a sand bluff.

Access is along sand roads which were liquifying. What wasn’t inundated was loose and deep.

When we messaged the hotel manager that water was coming in under the door, she tried to come out, but the roads weren’t passible. We were able to text her that we were fine before our internet and our cell tower went out. Luckily we still had power most of the time. It came on and off.

We didn’t worry too much. We had plenty of food and nowhere we needed to be. If we lost power for a significant length of time we could put our perishable food back into the van cooler, which runs off the solar panels on top of the van, and a huge bank of batteries under the bed. Our van had power, even if the hotel didn’t.

It was a little bit uncomfortably hot and muggy whenever the A/C switched off, which just added to the sense of tropics. Tropics within driving distance, right here in the desert!

By afternoon it was clearing up but still windy. Here’s a bunch of birds all facing into the wind.

Another beautiful sunset!

As if the storm had never happened.

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