A Little Rain . . . A Lot of Water!

This morning we spent quite a bit of time catching up on computer items. Yesterday the internet was not very reliable. We had the internet working, but Skype wouldn't work. We thought we would check it out at our apartment to see if it was just the system at the church, but the internet didn't work at all there.  We finally just gave up and left the computer work until today. 

As a result of internet issues yesterday, this morning was spent taking care of other correspondence. Elder Oveson worked with the computer tech over Cambodia who is actually in Thailand and worked through diagnostic with our computer issues.  We hope they can work things out that our internet will be faster and more reliable.

This afternoon the rains started again. We were startled by some very loud thunder, booming for several minutes. What was more surprising was it was all noise and no rain, then about 15 minutes later the skies opened up and the rain poured. When the rains fall it doesn't take very long to see the people in the alley take advantage of the water. They come out with their clothes to be washed, their shampoo for their hair, and the children run in the "lake" that is up to their shins. It is clear to see some people don't hate the rain.

With the heavy rain we have often seen it makes a big mess with traffic. We decided rather than wait for rush hour to create some of the gridlock we have seen, we headed home at 5:00 instead of waiting until 5:30. We were pleasantly surprised at how light the traffic was.  Every little shop and cart quickly puts out their raincoat displays, so the bright colored clusters are an invitation to passing moto drivers. We were very happy we went home early when we turned onto our road and found a lake to drive through to get home. Thankfully it was not backlogged with other cars trying to get in or out. After parking we couldn't resist taking pictures of the "river" out front. Today it was still light enough to get some pretty good shots, just more evidence of how a little bit of rain can sure produce a lot of water.