Oh, Tomas....

This weekend has been very low key, with everyone hanging out around the apartments waiting for the cyclone to do its thing. It started pouring this morning and I thought that was it, but it stopped after a little while and now we're not supposed to get anything until later tonight. It's super windy - when I went jogging yesterday, the typically flat ocean was pretty choppy and water was splashing up onto the sidewalk, and it's only picked up since then. Apparently this thing is now a category 3 hurricane/cyclone (what's the difference between the two?) at this point. I'm not quite sure how to think about this - I'm generally uneasy though, and went out with Kirsten today to buy a case of water. I also cooked a huge batch of indian veggies, rice and lentils (thanks to Arti being amazing at cooking and teaching me how to make tasty things) so that if we lose power I'll have something to eat other than PBJs and fruit. A lot of the locals seem very worried about this which doesn't help things much - I guess we'll see what happens over the next few days though.