Oh mon Dieu! Rain, rain and more rain! It started in the morning and it was pouring from the sky. First, I thought my flowers and plants were very happy, but that even they had enough after an hour or two. Quickly found out that the river behind the Center, which then squeezes through the city, was over flooding, scattered over the roads and fields and even invaded homes. We could see very well on the rooftop of the Center that it was getting worse and the river was making more enemies while a few days before they were good friends with her. It was hard to comprehend what was going on. At the time that Siaka (best friend, driver of the Center and brother of Abou) came back and told us that he had been in the water up untill his waist to safe a woman and her baby, I understood that then also the situation was over flooding. When Abou arrived with the story that there were predictions on the radio and television about floods in Sikasso, we knew.

About, before muddy roads now little rivers we walked home. The rain had taken it’s break and the situation was getting more calm.

I’m curious how “wet” we will wake up tomorrow …

Flood Part 2.

Flood Part 1 fortunately only had a little wet sequel in which there was only a little rain for a few minutes. I went to bed with the idea that tomorrow I had to look for my shovel so I could help my neighbors with filling bags of clay and could protect them from the water. But it was OK, and we were enjoying the nice weather with the sun on our faces. Now only the question, how many people are homeless or in danger for walls to collapse…