Rainy season started a while back. But rainy season for us really started last week. At home on a quiet Tuesday night, the rain started to fall. Nothing unusual we thought. Everything was as normal as I lay down on the sofa for maybe 1 minute. I stood up to discover the front from under 2 inches of water! It appears our drainage system is not up to much! After a panic of seeing the front room, kitchen and caregiver’s room more like a paddling pool than anything else, we set about trying to minimize the damage. Moving rocks, digging gutters and sweeping water were the activities for the next few hours. Finally the rain slowed down and the ineffective drains were able to take the strain. As morning came, we had a physical day of digging all the silt that rain brought in from the road. After clearing the house of water, it seemed the water was not at an end. The plumber came to fix the tap in the kitchen, he removed the tap but was unable to find where to turn the water off, so the kitchen was under water for a second time within the space of 12 hours!
It seems every house around is safe from the rain, the road is clear apart from the 2 metre river that has formed directly in the path of our property! A little unlucky for us! The heavy rains have also destroyed one of the perimeter walls of the property, and with another heavy rainfall last night, after more digging silt, pulling up concrete and clearing water, we discovered the rains have destroyed another part of the wall. Hopefully the heavens will give us a break for a day or two to get the wall fixed!
As well as the house being a water world for a few days, it has also become a dying place and mass graveyard for all the crickets around! Those that do not get caught by our staff, (who now spend the majority of the day and night climbing on the roof catching crickets to take home and eat) seem to find a safe haven from the cooking pot in our house, where they proceed to lie all over the house – in every nook and cranny (including the fridge) wriggle around for a few hours and then cark it, giving us a daily job of rounding up all the cricket carcasses! I’m waiting for the day they all return from the dead and we have an infestation of zombie crickets…..
It seems every house around is safe from the rain, the road is clear apart from the 2 metre river that has formed directly in the path of our property! A little unlucky for us! The heavy rains have also destroyed one of the perimeter walls of the property, and with another heavy rainfall last night, after more digging silt, pulling up concrete and clearing water, we discovered the rains have destroyed another part of the wall. Hopefully the heavens will give us a break for a day or two to get the wall fixed!
As well as the house being a water world for a few days, it has also become a dying place and mass graveyard for all the crickets around! Those that do not get caught by our staff, (who now spend the majority of the day and night climbing on the roof catching crickets to take home and eat) seem to find a safe haven from the cooking pot in our house, where they proceed to lie all over the house – in every nook and cranny (including the fridge) wriggle around for a few hours and then cark it, giving us a daily job of rounding up all the cricket carcasses! I’m waiting for the day they all return from the dead and we have an infestation of zombie crickets…..
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