Rainy Season in Full Swing

Today it has been raining almost all day. When it rains here you see some very interesting things. Here you can see a wonderful little pond that developed in one lane of the road, causing everyone to drive around it and slowing down traffic.




Here you see the same concept. This is a picture taken from the balcony of our new flat. Unfortunately the street in front of it is pretty busy.



Okay this next picture is something I love, an Okada (Motorcycle Taxi) with the passenger holding an umbrella. Some part of this just makes me chuckle, it is just not something I have seen anywhere else.



When the rains start the traffic stops; that is a constant here. If it starts to rain you might as well plan to spend around 2 hours trying to get somewhere that should take 15 minutes. Here is a picture from our current flat of the intersection down below. You can see several umbrella covered Okada in the picture, if you look close.



The next step in the traffic mess is that one side of the road fills up, but that doesn't stop people here. They solve the problem by driving down the other side!



But eventually this is what you end up with.



As you can tell from the orderly way that cars are making their way through the intersection this particular "go slow" will clear very soon.......soon is such a wonderfully relative term!