"The Rains Came Down and the Floods Came Up..."

I think I made a post the end of October or the first of November and said it was the "rainy season." Well, we hadn't seen anything yet!!! The past couple of weeks it has RAINED! Even then some of the missionaries said that it was much more rainy last year with roads being flooded all of the time.  Maybe we have seen a piece of it now. This morning on our way to work was the worst we have seen so far. This guy was quite clever holding an umbrella and peddling his bike to wherever he was headed.

 

                     This is usually just a grassy area. Not so, this morning. It was flooded!!

Some people have umbrellas but a lot do not! I feel sorry for all the people who have to walk to work, rain or shine! And they look like they are quite cold...probably in the 60's. 

 

                            Water creeping up to the road and more water at the edge of the road.                                         

 

This morning the roads were flooded. A whole lot of water. A couple of days ago, Hal saw a vehicle that had fallen into one of the ditches. It is impossible to know where the ditch is along side of the road, so everyone was trying to drive in the middle!

 

How would you like to ride through all of this water on your bike...and stay dry?

The car in front of us was being really cautious and slow, but rightly so. The last couple of weeks the roads have become even worse with potholes than even before!! I'm sure the driver couldn't tell where the ditch was or the potholes!

 

There is a ditch there somewhere!

Now try to miss the ditch and enter the parking lot through the little entry ways!!

There was once a wall here. The rains had softened the dirt beneath and the wall finally crumbled and fell. Unfortunately, it fell into the house next door, broke windows and marred up the house pretty well. Fortunately, no one was hurt! The Landlord of the place where the office is rented was really nervous about the place being exposed like this. The electric fence surrounding the entire place is not functioning now. She wanted to beef up the security...instead of two guards, she wanted 4-6 guards watching, especially at night. Eventually, she was satisfied when it was decided to just run the generators all night so the outside lights stayed on since the power has been off.

 

You can see the broken wall on the far left of the picture. The tree stump in this picture was where the tree burned a few months ago. Pictures never do justice to the extent of the rain. This is from my office window. You could hardly see to the road and the rain puddled up the yard below quite fast.