Video: Hurricane Omar Aftermath in Aruba

Sights and sounds of aftermath of Hurricane Omar in Aruba

It has been a few days of intense weather for Aruba standards. After a very wicked system formed quickly in the southern Caribbean earlier this week, it quickly became a tropical storm and later hurricane.

Once again Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao are lucky where the storm wasn’t powerful where it was relatively harmless. Though, it brought record amounts of rain to the islands on Tuesday and Wednesday. I haven’t received the latest figures, but unconfirmed reports claim that we’ve received around 7 inches of rain in two days. I would like to remind you that Aruba receives an average of 16 inches per year.

Thursday it was dry for almost all day even though it was cloudy at times. According to the weather service we can still expect to receive some rain in the coming days. Meanwhile take a look at above clip I put together of the storm in the last two days.

Update: The local weather service released the rainfall figures and I was pretty close to the correct amount. In three days it rained almost 8.5 inches (215,5 mm) that now goes into the record books as the wettest month of October ever.

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