Water Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink
The phrase “to go with the flow” now has new meaning for me.
At about 6am this morning the rain started, then the lightning and thunder. This is not unusual; we have had some fantastic storms in the couple of weeks that I have been here. So I got dressed and ready, made sure I had my umbrella and off I went to catch the school bus.
What a surprise to find that the bottom floor of our apartment building had flooded! And that was only the beginning…
My entire street was flooded! The girls and I began our usually short walk to the bus stop on Hong Mei Lu. We squelched and trudged our way up the street, sometimes knee deep, other times only ankle deep. Then we came to the main intersection and had to cross to get to the bus stop…I couldn’t even see the pavement anymore and the road was completely submerged!
We practically swam to the bus stop, laughing and giggling the whole way. Lots of photos were taken (see Facebook account). 40 minutes later…no bus…it is stuck in traffic (surprise surprise). Finally we are given the news we expected…no work today.
So we trudged back home, hypothesizing which diseases we may have caught (thank goodness for immunization) and finally made it to our apartments. I showered in an effort to scrub all the ‘I don’t know what’ off my legs and feet.
It is still raining as I write this update, the roads are still flooded and we’re not even sure if we’ll be able to get to work tomorrow. But, as our Director Alfonso always says “this is China”. Things are different, the drainage system doesn’t work so well, but we’re all safe, happy and have a great story to tell!
Have a great day!
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