Weather, Here And There

As I have said before, we live in the mountains.  We sleep with our windows open and the temperature gets down to 60 degrees at night and most days the high is around 80.  We arrived in the States last week to record high temperatures.  Most of you know that already because you have lived with this heat all summer.  It is a drastic difference from that to which we have become accustomed.  It is hot and dry.  And brown, much like summer in California.  We pass cattle grazing in the field and we ask what are those cattle grazing on?
I know crops are long dead.  Yards are dead.  Air conditioner sales have been great for those people that sell air conditioners.  Everyone everywhere is praying for rain. 

In Honduras, not only is it the rainy season but moving into the heavy part of rainy season.  Friday afternoon the rain started to fall.  Around 4:00, the really heavy rain fell for about an hour.  Several inches fell in that hour.  The church had five inches of water in it.  Water pipes were broken.  And a rock wall that separates the front of the property and a park was broken.  It took several hours to clean up the church building.  A tropical depression was moving in over the bay islands, meaning Santa Ana will probably receive more rain.  Last fall crops were ruined because of too much rain.  Hopefully, the same thing won't happen this year.

I am enjoying seeing sunshine every day.  But this part of the world does need rain.  Desperately.  And in Honduras, there is a little less rain needed.

Terri