Today, for me, heralds the rainy season here in Nicaragua having woken up by its pounding on our roof in the wee hours of the morning and its incessant pouring today. Many said that it's supposed to have started on the 15th of this month. We have had welcome showers here and there, even on V's birthday party, that helps cool an otherwise hot, hot, hot summer. Many people are happy that rain has finally arrived...it has been scorching hot.
We will probably have 4 months of this at least and at some point within those months, it will rain every single day and in most days, pour really hard. What I remember from last year was how heavy it can fall in late afternoons and pound our roof in the evenings - like it just might cave in. Many roads to beach resorts on the Pacific will be impassable with rivers overflowing on kilometers and kilometers of unpaved dirt roads. A real challenge to traverse even for 4-wheel drive vehicles. In some Suburban dwellings in Managua, there may be days when you feel like you're running an obstacle course zigzagging through debris from soil erosion - trash, tree branches, rocks, etc.
To me rain means seeing the frogs again (we have this small variety whose skin I heard is poisonous), mosquitos (sancudos)...they come with the rain and are extremely vicious (this type) and on the home front, erratic cable service. On the otherhand rain also means an end to scheduled power outages, green, green grass, abundant garden and less dusting.
When it rains, it does pour indeed, literally here in Nicaragua. Just another season.
We will probably have 4 months of this at least and at some point within those months, it will rain every single day and in most days, pour really hard. What I remember from last year was how heavy it can fall in late afternoons and pound our roof in the evenings - like it just might cave in. Many roads to beach resorts on the Pacific will be impassable with rivers overflowing on kilometers and kilometers of unpaved dirt roads. A real challenge to traverse even for 4-wheel drive vehicles. In some Suburban dwellings in Managua, there may be days when you feel like you're running an obstacle course zigzagging through debris from soil erosion - trash, tree branches, rocks, etc.
To me rain means seeing the frogs again (we have this small variety whose skin I heard is poisonous), mosquitos (sancudos)...they come with the rain and are extremely vicious (this type) and on the home front, erratic cable service. On the otherhand rain also means an end to scheduled power outages, green, green grass, abundant garden and less dusting.
When it rains, it does pour indeed, literally here in Nicaragua. Just another season.
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