Storm damage and a Sad Day in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua

[00:00:00]And good morning, this is Natalie with Discovery Real Estate. Um, it's a sad sight here. The storm hit. We have some massive waves in the ocean.

[00:00:11]Um and let me show you what happened.

[00:00:17]Several boats broke their moorings because of the big waves and have washed up to shore.

[00:00:23]There's lots of pangas here. There's um there's a lot of pangas here.

[00:00:30]People are out helping each other to get them pulled up and they they like pull them up onto um the steps here.

[00:00:40]Before they redid the boardwalk, they used to just literally put them up on the sidewalks here. So, um but now that they have the the new um all the beautiful work they've done, um it's harder to get the boats out. So, but yeah, they're just pulling them pulling the boat out with the vehicle there. So, um yeah.

[00:01:04]I feel bad for the fisherman. It's just it's a sad day.

[00:01:11]And he just lost his flag. He he had to drop it cuz they were trying to help them save the boat. So, um but yeah, there's still a lot of boats out there moored. Hopefully they're hanging on, but um there's a lot of people down at the fishing pier.

[00:01:34]So, but yeah, the the worst thing is is the the boats down here.

[00:01:42]So, I'll walk down to that end of the beach now.

[00:01:46]But yeah, sad morning for the fisherman.

[00:01:50]But first I want to show you that some of the waves are just massive. Like the Bay of San Juan is normally very calm here and just like you cannot big enough waves to surf on and uh Some of these waves I've seen pulling in are just huge.

[00:02:10]Okay, now I'm down at Vivian's restaurant here. Um There's a boat washed up here. There's several boats here.

[00:02:20]It's just really really sad.

[00:02:24]Bad day for the fishermen.

[00:02:27]And and we were warned that there was a Nate effect coming and but I think people ignored it because we've had several Nate effect warnings since the big storm that several years ago and people would pull their boats out and nothing would happen and and now something did happen again with a Nate effect warning. So, and I'm told down by the estuary it's really bad and it's not even high tide yet. So, this is going to get worse from what I was just told um because it's not high tide yet. But just look at the size of some of these waves in here. We don't normally have waves like this in San Juan. That's a massive one out there.

[00:03:07]So, I'm going to walk down to the estuary and see what that's like. They said the water has just come right through the restaurants down there by the river. Um but yeah, it's just and normally like the tide doesn't come up this high here and it's not high tide yet is what someone told me. So, I don't know how bad this is going to get.

[00:03:30]This is so sad. They've got a rope running across the road here tied to this tree so to help anchor the boats, but it's so sad. Looks like a wave came up here. So, I'm down beside King Curry.

[00:03:43]Um the sidewalk just the way all the the crud is and the it looks like a wave actually came all the way up here. So, the these restaurants if that happened, they had to have a wave into them. So, let me see what has happened. They call these little restaurants here the cantinas.

[00:04:01]Um because the they're just like cheap little bars where the Nicaraguans hang out and get cheap beer. So, but uh Yeah. Hola.

[00:04:16]It's This is really sad. These seem okay. This more debris down here. Let's see what's down here.

[00:04:25]Yeah, the more debris here. It looks like a wave came in and blew out the uh the top of the drainage ditch here. So, but yeah, you can see how the waves are. They're just massive out there.

[00:04:44]Um but yeah, this is a mess here.

[00:04:47]So, okay, now I'm down at the ranchos. This is where the little ice cream shop is and stuff, but you can see how a wave came up and into this and this whole area here is just full of crud from the wave. So, Oh, the mar sola. Tristedia para las pescadoras.

[00:05:07]Triste.

[00:05:11]El toro es un problema.

[00:05:14]No.

[00:05:18]Sí.

[00:05:21]Todo. Sí, gracias, amor.

[00:05:24]Sí, es malo. Sí.

[00:05:28]This is where Best Burger is now. The best burger's here, but look how Yeah, it came in and it's just coming in right now. So, and they say the high tide hasn't even hit yet.

[00:05:40]This is And they just moved down here a few months ago. Um I hope someone comes and gets their TV.

[00:05:46]Uh It's going to look like Yeah. Oh, then the guy here told me to come look at this. Oh, yeah. It's just pouring in over here now.

[00:05:59]So sad for everybody along the beachfront. And now I'm down at A Reba's bar and it they've got water in here.

[00:06:08]I wonder if if their pool got water from the ocean or not. It's elevated a little bit. Yeah.

[00:06:15]So sad.

[00:06:16]Yeah, you never see water here. But yeah, this is just Oh, it's so bad. Now I'm down by the river, which it just looks like all ocean out there. It's just so so it's up to the banks.

[00:06:32]Um and high tide is an hour away. I just talked to an another friend of mine and he said that the high tide won't hit for another hour. And just look at this. The water's just pouring into the parking area here.

[00:06:47]And people are going to get stuck if they're not careful.

[00:06:51]Oh, stuff.

[00:06:52]But um this restaurant here, you can see she was she's sweeping out debris. She's already had water in her restaurant and it's just going to get worse.

[00:07:02]Um and also uh the person I talked to, he said he saw three pongas sink this morning. The wave just put them like straight up and down and then they boom, they went down. So uh So it's quite the mess right now.

[00:07:19]And the water's just coming right in.

[00:07:21]It's just Yeah, so sad.

[00:07:25]But the river is really high and we've got a high tide and we're not even at high tide yet.

[00:07:32]Normally the river is not nearly this high.

[00:07:47]>> Ugh.

[00:07:48]I always end my my videos with I love my life, but today just doesn't quite feel like that type of day.

[00:07:56]Today, I'm praying for all the fishermen that they um don't have more damage.

[00:08:00]Man, there's a massive wave popping in here.

[00:08:03]And uh I'm praying that they don't get more damage. Look at this. I'm standing here as this massive wave crashes. I'm like watching out there and the water's just pouring through here now.

[00:08:14]Ugh.

[00:08:17]Wow.

[00:08:19]Like I'm I'm watching thinking now when that big wave out there hits in here, it's coming in and it is such a sad day. Praying for all the fishermen and everybody with boats out in the water.

[00:08:38]And now I'm in one of the restaurants here. A really nice fishing boat here.

[00:08:43]Ugh, I feel so bad.

[00:08:44]Guys going out to try and help.

[00:08:48]Um Looks like somebody from the the Navy is on board.

[00:08:56]And there's looks like a guy from the Navy, but you can see a wave came up into this restaurant. It's all dirty, but uh this gives you a good perspective of the waves from in here.

[00:09:08]When I first walked up, I could see a massive wave coming in.

[00:09:12]And uh >> [laughter] >> Yeah.

[00:09:17]Yeah, they're trying to get some stuff off of the boat.

[00:09:21]Uh here comes a really big wave.

[00:09:27]The sea is not happy today.

[00:09:33]Very, very sad day.

[00:09:48]>> It's like a side I can see on the boat there that the second window is broken out.

[00:10:01]So sad.

[00:10:04]Here's another nice boat that's been washed up.

[00:10:10]And and a fishing boat, too.

[00:10:14]Yeah, everybody's just hanging out here at the restaurants waiting and watching to see what happens. So.

[00:10:22]Yeah.

[00:10:28]Now they have a backhoe here to get this They got it attached to the rope which is almost boat. I was um standing talking to a friend on the phone and a big wave came and pushed this boat into the deck of Vivian's. They just redid their deck and and a guy was on the boat and he fell off, but luckily he's okay. But yeah, just scary as hell. So, um they're going to use this rope to try and secure it, but I'm getting out of here cuz all the guys are backing away. So, I'm getting out of the way here. I don't know what they're going to do uh with the uh backhoe and this boat, but they've got the rope attached to it.

[00:11:11]So.

[00:11:14]It's just a sad sad day here.