DiAnn's feet after church Bryan loves the sound of rain pounding on our tin roof, so last weekend when the rain started coming down a big grin spread across his face. Little did he know the damage the rains were about to inflict.
Like most Sundays at Langano, we slowly woke up and got ready for church. The rains the night before were a thing of the past and neither of us had given them a second thought - that is until we started walking to church. Each step was an adventure. A thick, sticky and slippery mud covered the usually sandy soil causing us to slip and slid around. The 2 minute walk took nearly 10 minutes. At one point during the walk, Bryan’s mom, DiAnn let out a loud squeal as the gooey mud sludged onto her sandals and squirted in between her toes. Thankfully we made it to church without wiping out :)
We were some of the first people to arrive at church, probably because we had one of the shorter walks. As we greeted our friends, we found out that the night before the river overflowed its banks upstream and the water had flooded the ‘lowlands’ in and around the compound. Water had gotten into the church and the evangelist’s home. The evangelist’s wife told us that plates & bowls were floating through her house! Her niece told me that she was sleeping on a mattress and she woke up when the water came into her ear! Thankfully, no one was hurt and only a few household items were lost or damaged.
After church, we ran into our teammate, Joan (the school director), and she informed us that water and a thick layer of the sticky mud had entered two classrooms and the library during the night. Joan told us that all of the textbooks were safe, but that some of the other library books were ruined as a result of the flood. At that point the water had receded, but the mud was still covering the ground and stuck to all the desks and chairs. After an initial cleaning, it was decided to leave the mess till Monday morning when reinforcements could help with the clean up process.
Like most Sundays at Langano, we slowly woke up and got ready for church. The rains the night before were a thing of the past and neither of us had given them a second thought - that is until we started walking to church. Each step was an adventure. A thick, sticky and slippery mud covered the usually sandy soil causing us to slip and slid around. The 2 minute walk took nearly 10 minutes. At one point during the walk, Bryan’s mom, DiAnn let out a loud squeal as the gooey mud sludged onto her sandals and squirted in between her toes. Thankfully we made it to church without wiping out :)
We were some of the first people to arrive at church, probably because we had one of the shorter walks. As we greeted our friends, we found out that the night before the river overflowed its banks upstream and the water had flooded the ‘lowlands’ in and around the compound. Water had gotten into the church and the evangelist’s home. The evangelist’s wife told us that plates & bowls were floating through her house! Her niece told me that she was sleeping on a mattress and she woke up when the water came into her ear! Thankfully, no one was hurt and only a few household items were lost or damaged.
After church, we ran into our teammate, Joan (the school director), and she informed us that water and a thick layer of the sticky mud had entered two classrooms and the library during the night. Joan told us that all of the textbooks were safe, but that some of the other library books were ruined as a result of the flood. At that point the water had receded, but the mud was still covering the ground and stuck to all the desks and chairs. After an initial cleaning, it was decided to leave the mess till Monday morning when reinforcements could help with the clean up process.
| 
|
