Quite the storm going on now !

[Chanly83]

Yeah luckily our week just started down here. Missing some nasty weather back home in Wisconsin. I’ll take blowing winds and 70 something for a few hours over a foot of snow and negative degrees any time!

 

[JamesBon92007]

Port is open! Hahahah Just kidding of course!


Pretty sure we don't have tornado sirens on the island - but there were firetrucks rushing somewhere - and they were using some different sounding sirens than I've heard before

Have there been more port closures than usual lately? We are thinking about May so I'm going to be checking your port closure history very carefully

 

[Alan P]

 

[Alan P]

 

[JamesBon92007]

I was just looking at the SCC webcam and everything went dark. Another power failure?

 

[MMM]

Pretty sure we don't have tornado sirens on the island - but there were firetrucks rushing somewhere - and they were using some different sounding sirens than I've heard before

On a local discussion board, there seemed to be some confusion about this. Hence my comment about about it being "reported". Out of curiosity, I wonder by what method local authorities DO notify locals of an impending disaster (which I don't believe this rises to..even close)?

 

[Dave Dillehay]

Welcome to January—fatal tornado in Cuba

 

[DandyDon]

Welcome to January—fatal tornado in Cuba

Hitting the biggest city in the nation no less: Resident: Havana looks like "a horror movie" after tornado

So the port is closed again this morning? I lost count long ago, but is this the worst January of the decade?

 

[Dave Dillehay]

Having seemingly flunked my statistics course prior to my MBA, I have had to rely on 25 years of direct observation. This has been, in my estimation, a pretty normal January. I would not worry much about May.

Dave Dillehay
Aldora Divers

 

[Christi]

Hitting the biggest city in the nation no less: Resident: Havana looks like "a horror movie" after tornado

So the port is closed again this morning? I lost count long ago, but is this the worst January of the decade?

Today is actually only the 4th day this month of no diving so far. So not the worst, no.

Jan 10, 15, 20 and today so far. There have been days the port has been open in the morning and closed in the afternoon or vice versa, but only 4 days of full closure. There is still a possibility that it will open for afternoon dives today.

And don't count on my website port status - because people have literally become very demanding and flat out rude with emails and phone calls because they believed it wasn't updated (even when it was) - I will probably be removing it from my website. It was there intended to be a courtesy, not real time up to the minute updates. It is not something people should be relying on to plan their days and trips and definitely not for people to make demands on how/when it is updated. It's not automated and therefore requires me, a human, to go in and manually make the update - which requires me to physically be at my computer in my office - which is not always possible.