cooling rain

The rains seem to be much more regular this year than last, almost every evening they arrive with the crash of thunder and flash of lightning.    Last night the temps were at an incredible low of 25°C (77°F), it was chilly.  I had to turn the hot water heater back on last week, the water was not warm enough from the tinaco.  It felt great to take a really hot shower last night and then use our new hair dryer so I didn’t have wet hair.  Who could imagine that I would want to blow heated air on my head in the middle of summer.

We haven’t had any flooding because they have been brief downpours or long slow rains, it’s  long + downpour that makes everything flood.  Of course, with every downpour the intersection by our house fills with water as the wells can’t drain it away as fast as it comes down.   Another big “ah ha” moment was when it hit me that there are no sewers in the centro so all those grates on the street lead to are deep dry wells such as we have in our yard.  If there is too much debris washed into them, they don’t drain very well.  Theresa said they came and cleared out the wells on her street and it helped.  We are one street over and I keep hoping they will come here next but no luck so far.

Mimi took some wonderful street shots the other night, lights on the waves and water at the corner.  I liked this one best with part of an ambulance turning the corner.