We watched all the action from our perch on the porch at Karakter. Straight line view down the runway. It was quite something to see - first the AF on approach and then as it aborted, a graceful arc out over the water. A reasonably sharp bank, looked like it was trying to show us its belly.

Many other diversions followed over the next hour, both large and small aircraft. Finally a private jet landed, reverse thrusters on full, looked like zero braking. Perhaps standing water on the runway was a contributing factor.

Then aircraft started to leave and the spray they threw was tremendous. We were all joking that we needed to get out there with squeegees to do our part.

But who really knows. The viz was very low at times, the cloud cover dense and the rain coming down hard. Better safe than sorry.