I know this is the Tropics but I am still amazed at the amount of water that can fall at any one time! Like yesterday when I took Howard to work at 7 in the morning. There was a vast amount of water on the road and the wipers were having a hard time handling it. Between that and traffic coming the other way I was glad to get home again. One of the (watery) photos to try and illustrate what I mean:
Today in Chinese New Year and thus the start of a 4 day holiday here. Howard and I wandered down town last night to see what was happening but it was all very quiet so early on in the evening with shopkeepers simply closing up shop early. It was much later when we were home that things started hotting up! First of all it sounded like we were under sporadic mortar attack (what size are these fireworks?) but by the end of it we were in a fully fledged Dutch New year firework extravaganza – with the house literally shaking with some of the larger ones. And me? Well Howard could hardly believe it but I slept through the entire thing!
This morning (grey, rainy but warm – 29deg) we went out to examine the damage but everything was quiet and orderly again – amazing! Anyway we stopped at one of the templates which had giant joss sticks burning outside. Here's some shots but as you can see we parked the car in the wrong place with the windows open – it was full of smoke by the time we got back to it. Well, no evil spirits in the car this year!
