WET AND WILD

THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED ON THURSDAY!

We have traveled throughout Mexico staying in several different cities. We have been in Mexico at different times of the year. We have rented many places. We are now experiencing what it is like to live in a Mexican town where it has been raining for almost 93 hours non-stop.


Many of the homes have beautiful boveda ceilings. A boveda ceiling is a curved ceiling made of bricks. It is a special craft. It defies gravity. Our condo is a penthouse condo, and we have four boveda ceilings. Yesterday, we noticed a small leak in the guest bedroom. We put down some towels and a bowl to catch the water. This morning we got up and the room had several leaks. We contacted the property manager who assisted us in moving the furniture and covering it with giant black trash bags.

Right after we finished that room, we noticed wet bricks in the other three boveda ceilings. We are keeping an eye on them. Hopefully they won’t materialize into leaks. We now have tarps on the roof.

Sam was looking at a site called the Civil List. The Civil List is for gringos. Local information is posted and people can ask questions about a variety of topics. This morning, there were several postings regarding the deep ditches, called canals and the local dams. The police and firemen were looking to evacuate some people in the lower part of Colonia San Antonio near the canal. There is a tienda and several homes that already had water inside. The police stated they had to open the dam. This indeed could cause some major flooding. Thank goodness we are on the other, higher side of Colonia San Antonio.

This afternoon the rain stopped. We ventured out to take some pictures of the lower part of our Colonia. We spoke with some people that told us they have never seen this kind of weather in San Miguel especially in January and February.

We also received some pictures from a friend of a friend that were taken today on the other side of San Miguel, closer to where our house was last March. We hiked over the flooded dam last year. This time of year this area is normally quite dry. Mother nature is truly in charge and you can’t stop her.

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HURRAY...IT'S FRIDAY MORNING AND THE BEAUTIFUL SUN IS SHINING!