Apparently getting nearly 1/3 of the total year's rain fall in 10 hours is a bad thing. So if you didn't see on the news (which you most likely did not) Ouga got way to much rain the other day and we had some flooding issues. 5 people have been reported dead and 150,000 have lost their homes. There are two main roads near my house one to the north the other to the south. The one to the north got washed out in certain areas less than a mile from our house. The main/national/only hospital was flooded and they had to evacuate patience from the some of the wards.
All this took place roughly a mile from our house near the lake no damage here at the house however lucky us. One power supply station was flooded so there have been extra supply problem with electricity. We really only lost power for the day of the storm and part of the next day. Water pressure returned yesterday the storm was on Tuesday/Wednesday. We have been dodging rain since then just kind of waiting for more problems I guess. I'm pretty sure the storm that hit us will soon turn into hurricane Fred and if it doesn't then the east coast of the United States should consider it-self lucky as well.
In other news the bank is almost as much fun as the market. We have a "repose" I believe is the word we have been using here. That is a three hour nap-time from about 12-3. So at the bank come 2:30 there's a long line of people waiting to get in. Oh and the main bank we normally go to got flooded so all their customers were re-routed to the smaller bank around the corner, yay. If you happen to leave more than 4 inches of space between you and the person in-front of you in line, you will be immediately corrected by the 30 people behind you for not moving forward. I rather liked this bank however because I was not greeted at the front door by an AK-47, I'll take the crowd over the gun.
And finally my friend Azz's baby started walking on her own this weekend. That's all I got.
Peace,
Ben
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Boy, am I glad to hear from you!
ReplyDeleteHope everything dries out fast.
nope didn't hear a peep on the news. We just hired an Indian boy who goes by the name of Lucky, but he's turning out to be not so Lucky so what's in a name? Hurricane Fred you say? Some butterfly in Namibia needs to give the flapping a rest I think.
ReplyDeletehey ben, i brought the family to the smithsonian museum last week and made it a point to look up where you are. I pray for you every day and hope that your experience abroad is as fruitful as mine.
ReplyDeleteI laughed at your story of tennis. Try playing in the thin air of nairobi... the other mile high city. I thought I was in shape, but found myself out of breath almost right away.
I also fondly remembered the days of playing "football" with the street children. I couldn't believe how tightly they could bind a group of plastic bags to make a ball. I also worked with a man whose name was Chuma (translates as Iron). He would play from sun up to sun down without taking anything to drink during Ramadan. I still don't know how he did it.
If you could bring one thing in to this area, what would it be? soccer balls? books? paper? pencils? toys? Do you have an address that those things could be mailed?
Wow. I went and looked you up too. Did you know you're in the area where mosquito nets are the _only_ choice for preventing malaria? Resistance is established there to both DDT and pyrethroid insecticides. Watch out, there are a couple of nitwit groups that have been trying to eliminate funding for and use of mosquito nets for bizarre political reasons.
ReplyDeleteMap (red is multiple resistance)
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/img/ddtresistanceafrica.jpg
Found here, with a link to the original paper:
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2005/11/kmmn.php