Cyclone Funso

We had been noticing a lot of rain lately.  Really more rain than I have ever seen in my life and it never stops.  On the upside, we have slept without the air conditioner on for a few days, which was nice.  On the down side there is flooding and mud and humidity and creeping things like you cannot believe.  Oh yeh, then there are the power outages.  But, when we finally looked at the weather on-line we found out it wasn't just a typical rainy season in Quelimane.  It was a cyclone and we were in the middle of it.  So here are a few pictures thought they don't do it justice.  People who live in low area simply sit on their front porches and watch life passing them by since there is a lake in front of them that cannot be forded.  Many people have had their homes flooded as well.  Then the vendors on the corners and the markets who rely on daily commerce to eat are struggling as well.  The Elders went out and bought sturdy rain boots yesterday in hopes of being able to actually get to their investigators homes.  PS  The last two baptism pictures are for the moms out there who are faithful blog readers!

The wind tears off these metal roofs in the storms.

This is after only two days of the storm; it got much deeper.

This is on Sunday, on Monday you couldn't see the hubs.

Life goes on....

Camera problems, but you can see the water coming down the walls
inside the house here.  That is a shower curtain on the floor
trying to absorb water.

What a surprise, the Elders pulled out their suits for the baptism.
Some Elders had left their suits at the mission home, so
three of them wore Elder Rios's suits.

Life doesn't get any better than this!

You can see the wall of this house falling in because of the rain.