As the rains start and the ground becomes waterlogged,
thousands of beetles which were under the ground come out and form flying
plagues which come out at night and gather around any light source. It is gross!! Sitting in the house you can hear the flapping of thousands of
beetle wings outside and you do not want to walk through the swarm! The next morning the roads are black as they
are covered in the dead bodies of all the beetles. A feast for the chickens who roam the streets!!
We
have been kept awake the last few nights by torrential rain storms and the ground
around the house and church is waterlogged with huge puddles – we remember when
we visited in Jan 2012 the ground around the house looked more like a swamp and
it seems it is reverting to that again now!
Sadly that brings with it more mozzies!
We can’t allow the cows, goats and sheep into the garden at the moment
to eat the grass or it would become a quagmire! It is also a hard time of year to get washing dry especially with
the high humidity.
The
rainy season means that the main road in and out of Georgetown gets flooded
especially at high tide so it brings more chaos to an already overstretched
road lay out. The drainage gullies and
trenches originally built by the Dutch and British to prevent flooding have all
become blocked up by all manner of refuse and dead dogs and so there is little
to stop massive floods. It certainly
isn’t pretty!
We
feel sad for the people here whose lives are already difficult and arduous
enough – the rainy season just makes things even more miserable – for those
waiting hours by the side of the road for mini buses to get around, those whose
houses leak and are crumbling and for those who are homeless. Thankfully it means the temperature is cooler - a chilly 24 degrees C, plus we have a car, wellies and good
umbrellas - but we will still be very glad when the rainy season has passed!
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