Rio Soco Problemo Today ???
You are right, in principle Robert, but today I left L R for the capital at 11:00 am and found that there was some kind of cock-up at the Rio Soco bridge, maybe an accident, maybe a bridge structural problem, no-one seemed to know for sure. Thus I used my back-woods 'shortcut' which takes one through Ramon Santana, the village hit very hard by Jeanne-related flooding. Then, on the way back at 7:00 pm it was still blocked, and I had to use the detour again !
I think that traffic had started to flow again when I rejoined the main road at the Santana Beach hotel, but does anyone know what the problem was ? It must have been fairly exciting as there were helicopters and all sorts buzzing around.
The main concern being, of course, whether there is some profound problem which may affect east-bound traffic.
The other comment is that the work on the Chavon bridge bypass is proceeding at a phenomenal pace, I was there yesterday and there is any amount of big, new, grown-up looking heavy plant shifting mud, rocks and all manner of matter, both organic and inorganic. I see no reason why the promise of a passage ( probably a ford initially ) by the weekend.
It is worth pausing amidst all the whinging about the crappy stuff that happens here, and acknowledging that when the s**t hits the fan the DR can really launch an impressive clean-up brigade !
Just for the record our boat was heavily damaged in the Cumayasa debacle, but not, extremely fortunately ( and thanks mainly to our extraordinary Dominican crew ), destroyed. We hope to have her repaired and back in service in a month or so. Many were not so fortunate, and, as far as we can tell, about half of the entire sailboat fleet working Bayahibe-Saona has been destroyed.
CB
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