Near hurricane gusts have battered the Island for days, but kites should still be able to fly on Friday as the winds decrease.

According to the Bermuda Weather Service there will be some rain on the morning of Good Friday, but the afternoon should be clear with winds between 12 to 18 knots.

That is a significant drop from winds that have gusted up to 60 knots, nearly the strength of a category one hurricane, over the past few days.

A gale force warning was issued two days ago as sustained winds between 30 to 40 knots have blown across the Island, downing traffic lights and running boats onto the rocks.

Bermuda Maritime Operations said they had two calls of boats breaking loose from moorings — one in Mullet Bay, St. George's and the other in Hamilton Harbour.

They urged the public to secure their moorings and to check their bilge pumps to ensure that in the high winds boats are secure.

Electricity and Cable TV has been affected by these high winds as well.

BELCO had four circuits affected and isolated outages at Parsons Lane, Christ Church, Happy Valley area, wires down at the junction of Dundonald Steet and Black Bay, Southampton.

But a spokeswoman said all efforts were taken to get electricity back on and asked the public to unplug electronics in case of a surge.

She said: "We had four circuits affected by the high winds, also some isolated outages, (including St. George's) but crews have been responding and outages have been generally brief.

"Customers should have their sensitive equipment protected by plugging into power protection units. However, sensitive equipment plugged directly into the wall outlet is best unplugged during high winds, storms etc. as the weather can cause surges on the system."

Bermuda CableVision general manager Terry Roberson said a large tree crushed fibre optics in St. George's and St. David's at 9.30 p.m. Monday night.

Last night at around 8 p.m., a company spokesperson said engineers were vigorously working to restore the service, but couldn't say when it would be back online.

All the stormy weather, however, has not brought the much needed rain.

According to the Bermuda Weather Service on Monday only. .18 inches fell and. 24 inches fell on Sunday bringing the grand total of rain fall to. 71 inches for half of March.

Even if the rest of the month doubles this number to 1.42 it is still less than half the normal rainfall for March, which stands at 4.44 inches.

On Saturday, fears over a water shortage this summer were raised by water truckers because of challenges already faced this winter.

Russ Ford, vice president of the Bermuda Water Truckers' Association (BWTA), had said: "I am very, very nervous about summer — very anxious, because if we are having these problems in winter, when summer comes it's going to be even more magnified.

"The situation is not like a few weeks ago — things are less intense, so I wouldn't call it a crisis like it was before, but as the summer comes we will have increasing challenges."