Amazon rain and floods
Well, I'm now seeing firsthand the sheer force of rain that they get here in the Amazon basin. It's pretty impressive. I'm looking outside at a complete downpour, it's been like this now for four hours straight. I ventured out on my moto with the other volunteers, we went to have lunch at La Estancia, the steakhouse in town. My moto nearly quit on me several times and did cut out twice coming home. Our street has about 2" of water on it and it's rising. The road between Trinidad and Santa Cruz is so fragile, it is like a solid lake on one side for most of the last 1/4 of the road near Santa Cruz. The road has been closed all week due to a couple of breaks in the road from the rain, which are being repaired, but it's hard to say how long the repairs will last or if another break will occur. Trinidad is without chicken, milk, and other supplies it depends on from Santa Cruz as the trucks still cannot get through.
As for the other happenings . . .school will be starting Feb. 11. We had our first parents' meeting last night to explain all of the new rules, schedule, etc. and also did some team building activities to help the parents get to know each other (if they didn't already). The lab is coming along, and should be fully ready by the start of school, along with the completed network. The health center as well is nearly finished (just first floor) and also should be ready by Feb. 11, if not before. Construction will continue, but the bottom level will be operational.
Yesterday, a plane also crashed near Trinidad, it was a 727 plane belonging to LAB (yes that same old infamous LAB), an airline with a rocky history over the last few years. Apparently the pilots were going to Cobija, in the northern tip of Bolivia, but had to turn back due to storms and the nearest runway with asphalt was Trinidad (several others just have grass runways), but in the process they ran out of fuel and crashed into the jungle just outside of town. Fortunately, nobody was killed, most people just had bumps and bruises and many people were understandably emotionally shaken. Apparently it will be some time before the plane is recovered to scrap, so we're talking about going out to see the wreckage sometime.
Anyway, that's about all to report for now!
As for the other happenings . . .school will be starting Feb. 11. We had our first parents' meeting last night to explain all of the new rules, schedule, etc. and also did some team building activities to help the parents get to know each other (if they didn't already). The lab is coming along, and should be fully ready by the start of school, along with the completed network. The health center as well is nearly finished (just first floor) and also should be ready by Feb. 11, if not before. Construction will continue, but the bottom level will be operational.
Yesterday, a plane also crashed near Trinidad, it was a 727 plane belonging to LAB (yes that same old infamous LAB), an airline with a rocky history over the last few years. Apparently the pilots were going to Cobija, in the northern tip of Bolivia, but had to turn back due to storms and the nearest runway with asphalt was Trinidad (several others just have grass runways), but in the process they ran out of fuel and crashed into the jungle just outside of town. Fortunately, nobody was killed, most people just had bumps and bruises and many people were understandably emotionally shaken. Apparently it will be some time before the plane is recovered to scrap, so we're talking about going out to see the wreckage sometime.
Anyway, that's about all to report for now!
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