The sun is back

A week ago Monday the rainy season started.  It was really like one day it was sunny and the next day the rain started.  IT started with a vengance.  The first day I got to see how bad the streets flood.  In the US you always hear don't drive through water you can not see the bottom of.  Well I can tell you I am now an expert of driving in water that is well higher than my knees.  When the 5 lane road floods, and if you do not drive through you will not get home, and everyone else is doing it, you drive through it too. 

I have also learned that clothes just do not dry during raining season even when they are under a covered area.  The air is just too damp.  Gareth wears a uniform to school.  We own 3 sets.  There are 5 days in a week.  Thus I have gotten very creative at draping clothes on our handrails of our stair cases.  Our house during the rainy days looks like hill billy haven with clothes draper over the railing and towels at all the doors to keeps the wet out.

The biggest glitch in rainy season is our hot water.  We have a cool huge set of solar panels that heat our water and help with the lights.  The lights were just fine as the eletricity just kicked.  The hot water did not go so well.  The day rainy season start my hot water temp read 59.9C on the gauge.  This morning is read 29.4C  That is cold.  Needless to say bare minimum shower for me.

In all honesty so far rainy season has not been bad for me.  OK everything was wet for 10 days.  My legs have not been shaved in 5 days.  I hair has looked like a wet dog for 10 days.  The rainy days made me appreciate today which has been all sun soo much more.  Oh and the hot water is up to 39.6C.  I might sun tea tomorrow.