No, a water line did not burst....this is what happens when it rains in Djibouti (It's true! It does rain in Djibouti!). It also likes to leak in everywhere, including my room. Just thought I would share with everyone....we all here in camp were impressed the first time it rained. Now it can stop, because I'm sick of mopping my floor and washing my towels every day.
We leave this week to go to Tanzania one more time. This will be my last trip before I head home. :-) (Jay has the countdown...only 39 days to go. )
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Every single time I deploy and it rains it floods. There are no light rains, just torrential down poors that last for hours. Then everything floods. Nothing like the smell of dusty, desert infested tents molding the day after. You lucky girls and your CLU's!
We could use some of the rain here. It is dry as a bone! I would think with all that sand it would just absorb right into the ground rather than flood. At least you aren't in tents, like Jay said, but I would not like mopping up all the time.
39 more days! Yes!
We could use rain here too, maybe tomorrow they're saying. Does it cool off when it rains? Hope you get to do some neat things on your last trip!
No, that would make it too pleasant here if it would cool off after a rain. It may be slightly cooler, but the humidity is at 99.9999999%, which makes it feel just as hot. Oh well...only 39 days to go...and only 5 of them will be in Djibouti. :-)
Well there's a high of 73 degrees for November 4 in Wisconsin, so boo to your 99% humidity. I think we already had winter and now we are back into spring again. Also, if you have a Toppers Pizza in Africa, they have a large pizza for 3.99 today for the election....just an FYI.
I always liked deploying this time of year. With the rain Iraq is very pretty. These wild purple and yellow flowers grow everywhere. The rain washes the scent of (insert dirty, nasty, smelly phrases here) away. The sand is hard because of all the severe sun there, same thing in the deserts here in the US. The rain hits so fast it doesn't have time to absorb, it just builds up and just flash floods.
The weather in the mountains is more like winter. November 1st it was almost 80 in Denver. Today was high 60's. Snow forecasted in the inches for the mountains this week.
38 days. :-)
See, and I thought that the reason the rain didn't absorb was because the ground had never seen it before, and didn't know what to do with it. :-)
Yeah...there is no 'real' pizza here in Africa, so you better eat one for me.
Well guess who's going to be a future UW-M graduate eh?
That's awesome, congratulations!
Good job Kurtie!!!
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