Mehdi El Gueddari

Hurrican Ophelia turned out to be a non-event for us. A bit windy but nothing to write home about. The house stood strong. Our neighbours were not so lucky:

8:00am Hurricane Ophelia, the most powerful storm east of the US on record, will be upon us today. It will be a good test of how the house fares in bad weather. Last night, I went to replace the car's headlight that had blown a few days ago. It might be useful to have working lights when driving through a hurricane. You'd think that car manufacturers would have worked out how to make such a basic manipulation easy by now. They haven't. It took me a good hour to take the old bulb out and put the new one in. I was ready to cry