Wind howling though our apartment, water in puddles under all of the windows - that has been the last couple of days and nights! You can't sleep at night because the rain is pounding on the windows. You know if you get up in the night you have to be careful because there is probably water on the tile floor and it is very slippery! This storm has been worse than the last one that was so well prepared for and publicized for weeks before it came. We didn't even know this one was coming and we get a newspaper every day. It makes you sick for all those people who live in little makeshift houses that fill with water every time it storms like this. Our friends, the Shavers, traveled to La Romana for a conference today. Of course the weather was terrible but as they drove along the road by the ocean the waves were hitting the rock and going straight in the air then over onto the road. They were grateful to get back in one piece. Don't know how long this is supposed to last but it has calmed down tonight for awhile.
Our neighbor came up this morning to tell us our water pipe was leaking into her bathroom and it was running down the drain into the apartment below her. Great huh? We couldn't get anyone to come look at it until tomorrow so had to shut off the water. The elevator isn't working and William told us tonight that it would be out for 8 days. For us on the 4th floor that isn't so bad but I really feel bad for those people on the 10th and 11th floors. There is an 8 months pregnant woman on the 10th floor that the workers are worried about. Just hope she doesn't have to leave until she is ready to deliver.
Alysha sent us some pictures of the snow on the ranch. Wow! On was of Miya and Jared by a snowman. We printed it off and stopped to show William on our way in tonight. He had no idea what snow looked like and couldn't grasp that "snowman" concept at all. It was pretty funny watching him scratch his head trying to figure out just what that was. Even after Scott explained how you pack snow together to form body parts he had that puzzled look on his face. I'm sure the more educated people would know what snow is but these guys with no education are a different story. William had on a jacket zipped up to his chin and was rubbing his arms saying he was "frio" freezing cold. It's probably around 75 degrees out there; not exactly freezing weather!
We braved the storm and went to Spanish classes. We cancelled our music lesson at the Casa because only one of the students was even there. Most of the temple people that have Mondays off come to the early class because they live right there in the building.
I don't know if they are celebrating surviving the storm or what but the music across the street is loud and obnoxious. It's cool enough we could leave the windows open and it would be nice, but you can't sleep when there is so much noise outside.
This man wanders the streets most of the time. If he stops in the little store across the way they kick him out but today they must have let him stay inside for a little while because he was soaked to the skin. I looking out the window when he came out behind a guy that had lit up a cigarette. The guy stopped and gave it to the vagrant. I wondered if he had even ever smoked before because he certainly could never buy cigarettes. But he was a happy camper for some time:
Our neighbor came up this morning to tell us our water pipe was leaking into her bathroom and it was running down the drain into the apartment below her. Great huh? We couldn't get anyone to come look at it until tomorrow so had to shut off the water. The elevator isn't working and William told us tonight that it would be out for 8 days. For us on the 4th floor that isn't so bad but I really feel bad for those people on the 10th and 11th floors. There is an 8 months pregnant woman on the 10th floor that the workers are worried about. Just hope she doesn't have to leave until she is ready to deliver.
Alysha sent us some pictures of the snow on the ranch. Wow! On was of Miya and Jared by a snowman. We printed it off and stopped to show William on our way in tonight. He had no idea what snow looked like and couldn't grasp that "snowman" concept at all. It was pretty funny watching him scratch his head trying to figure out just what that was. Even after Scott explained how you pack snow together to form body parts he had that puzzled look on his face. I'm sure the more educated people would know what snow is but these guys with no education are a different story. William had on a jacket zipped up to his chin and was rubbing his arms saying he was "frio" freezing cold. It's probably around 75 degrees out there; not exactly freezing weather!
We braved the storm and went to Spanish classes. We cancelled our music lesson at the Casa because only one of the students was even there. Most of the temple people that have Mondays off come to the early class because they live right there in the building.
This man wanders the streets most of the time. If he stops in the little store across the way they kick him out but today they must have let him stay inside for a little while because he was soaked to the skin. I looking out the window when he came out behind a guy that had lit up a cigarette. The guy stopped and gave it to the vagrant. I wondered if he had even ever smoked before because he certainly could never buy cigarettes. But he was a happy camper for some time:
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