Our Friends on Grand Cayman
There's a reason we haven't heard from our friends on Grand Cayman, and there has been no real news from the Island. The government is not allowing reporters onto the island and is sending away those who try to show up. We got an email from some of our friends telling us how awful it really is there. The few hotels that aren't destroyed or badly damaged are housing refugees. Two of their 3 rental condos are destroyed and the third is flooded. Their only electricity is still from generators. Grocery stores were closed until yesterday, when they decided to only let in 50 people at a time, and were allowed to buy 1 gallon of water, one loaf of bread, and 50.00 worth of groceries.
Banks aren't supposed to open until Monday, and nobody knows when tourists will be able to come back.
The little island of Grand Cayman is a total mess. It seems trite to say "count your blessings" but what we've experienced up here in the past few days from wind and rain is pretty much nothing when compared to the hell these and others are going through in the wake of the storm. Time to make a donation to the Red Cross.