8/25/2012 Hopefully the end of Hurricane Isaac

So we thought the hurricane was over yesterday with the howling winds.  All night the noise of the wind blowing through our windows made it difficult to sleep.  It had rained off and on but nothing really out of the ordinary.  But today was another story!  It started to rain and never stopped - water was running everywhere.  The highlight of the storm was watching a garbage bag that had been put out for the garbage truck and was picked up by the water running down the sides of the street.  We watched as it made a turn and went with the water flowing down the McDonalds drive through spilling pieces of garbage all the way through the drive through and out the other end into the street.  There is alot of garbage on the sidewalks and sides of the street here so when it rains it all washes down the little rivers at the sides of the roads and eventually must end up in the ocean. It is amazing to see people walking by dropping wrappers or bottles or anything they don't want, on the ground.
Back to the storm  - water was filling the window glides where the windows slide open and closed and running down the walls leaving big puddles by every window.  In our apartment we have five really big windows.  As the day wore on the paint under the windows was getting bubbly.  I tried to flatten them but then it would start the blizzardy rains again so finally we just mopped up the water and the owner will have to deal with paint.  The walls are cement and I think they just paint a new coat of paint on each time they rent .

A minute in this heavy rain and your sopping wet!

This is the Guagua loading bench - they were trying to keep dry but had to wade through 6" deep water to get to the guagua.

If you look closely you can see the domino players waiting out the storm.  Nothing stops a game of dominoes for those guys!  You could barely see the store across the street.

On both sides of the street there were 3' wide running rivers

  Just when you think the storm is over it starts to rain again. Our upstairs neighbors wanted to go to dinner across the street.  After being cooped up for two days with the storm we thought it would be a great idea.  We were there for an hour but as soon as we got home it started to rain again.  I wish some of this water was going to Utah!  As it is it eventually runs into the river that runs into the ocean.
  There is a guy out in the street yelling at someone but I daresn't look out to see who it is!  I do recognize some of the words  and he sounds mad so hopefully we don't hear a gunshot next.  Anything is possible here in our neighborhood!