I'm just catching up on all the Post-Noel posts...yes, even the "fancy" homes owned by ex-pats (we don't own the one we are in--rental but still in the Metro) were filled with water. I had surgery on Oct 31 and came home from the Cap on the 1st to find our ceilings, walls, floors, furniture, ...everything saturated. The clay roofs and cinderblock walls literally filled up with water and started weeping into the houses (above and beyond the usual flood in under the doors.)
People with wood and tin roof homes either had their homes (and I might add they are their REAL homes) blown away, flooded away, or the soil eroded away leaving the walls to cave in.
On another note, DENGUE FEVER is back on the rise because mosquitos are hatching everywhere. If you are coming for a visit, bring repellent. If you live here, do the best you can to dump pooled water sources (and try to get more frogs to pick up the slack!) This weekend we had several cases of suspect Hemmorhagic Dengue transferred to hospitals.
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