The rain is absolutely horrible here. Prediction for the weekend: mudslides. With a failed trip to Guatemala I really hoped that I would be able to enjoy the city that I now call home. Well, think again. Apparently San Sal forgets every year what the rainy season can do and the same tragedies continue to occur.
Here is the equation I have come up with....
Mudslide + destroyed homes and villages+deaths = Habitat for Humanity June 15.
I will be joining my co-workers in a couple of weekends to work on habitat for humanity to rebuild homes that were destroyed last year in the mudslides. The irony of all this is that this weekends habitat project was moved to next weekend because of potential mudslides. Doesn't it seem that all of this hard work is getting us no where? We continually rebuild the same structures year after year when all we really have to do is fix the problem. Now I'm not an engineer and I don't know anything about levies but I do know that they can be fixed, updated, and maintained in order to prevent these types of problems. And, it seems that putting a little
money there would prevent A LOT of money in future years. And after all of my ranting, I will still be going to habitat in a couple of weeks.
On another note:
I have received a request to take some pictures of where I live. It has been difficult thus far to take pictures of san sal. This isn't the safest place to live and robberies are frequent.
Therefore, I haven't had much incentive to take my camera out in the town just to have it stolen. But, until I take more pictures here is a picture out my window. Although the rain can cause tragedies, it also causes El Sal to be an amazingly lush and beautiful place.
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