Rainy Season

So, "Rainy Season" is definitely upon us! We had heard about it...and I thought I was more than ready for it, after living in Abbotsford, BC for the last 5 years! But, this is definitely a different story. It usually only rains for a couple hours a day, mainly in the late afternoon, early evening, and sometimes at night. But when it rains, it rains hard! And it can come suddenly.

We have had a few interesting experiences already! One time we had taken the North Carolina team out to pass out fliers in the neighborhood, when the heavens opened up and poured out all over us! The rains came complete with hail! Part of our group managed to get a cab back to the church, while the rest of the group was stuck out under an overhanging roof of a building...waiting for the rain to slow, and the water to clear enough for us to drive back and pick them up. Here are a few pictures...

So, three nights ago, Jen and I were trying to drive home from the church after a particularly heavy rainfall. The main roads get particularly bad, as man-hole covers fly open, rain comes spouting up...in one place it was shooting as high as a car! We've seen a car get stuck on top of a man-hole cover...not able to really move forward or backward.

Well, in our case, we got caught in an incredibly long traffic jam. We're still not sure what was going on up ahead (it seemed to be in one of the tunnels ahead of us), but the firemen were out there to help us out. We were on a main street (Lopez Mateos) where there are "feeder lanes", leading on and off the street, and running parallel to the street. Anyway, the firemen were leading us all onto the parallel street, but in typical Mexican fashion, it was really tricky! They were leading us all OFF Lopez via an entrance that was supposed to be leading ONTO Lopez. So, each car had to pull ahead, put the car in reverse, and allow the firemen to direct them backwards into the traffic coming at them on the parallel street.

And that's how we did it...one by one...water everywhere, horns honking, people getting out and walking! All part of the adventure that is life in Mexico!!