Flooding

On Wednesday, we got the shock of our life when we went upstairs only to find about 3cm of water covering our entire top floor - including our nice new bed :-(

We went outside to find a broken pipe and most probably a blocked drainage hole - which didnt help by the fact we were having torrential rains. I ripped the curtains off the rods and started blocking the top of the staircase - we didnt want downstairs being ruined as well. I started bucketing water off the balcony whilst Geoff went out with the truck to try and buy a tarp to cover the open area on the balcony. It took his 40 minutes to go just 2 blocks because all the highways were closed the roads were absolutely chaotic - seems like we werent the only ones with the flooding problem!

After a couple of hours of shovelling water, we felt it was ok to go to sleep - only to be woken at 5:30am with water almost coming in through our bedroom doors again - another hour of shovelling water and thank goodness that was the last of it...for us anyway.. there are many parts of San Juan that are swamped and are still under flood warnings until Saturday.