Since our city is “semi-tropical,” we usually experience several consecutive months of rain each year. This year has been particularly rainy, keeping things moist (inside and outside). Almost every day, parents with umbrellas gather at the primary school across the street:
The students run in front of cars, trucks, and scooters as they cross the street:
During this time, you see scooter riders trying to stay dry with two-headed ponchos:
Drainage is a problem on many of the streets, with water bubbling up from some of the storm sewers:
and mysteriously flowing down into adjacent ones:
The flooded streets pose a risk to scooters as they ride blindly through deep water:
Sometimes the murky water hides a submerged curb:
As we walked to the bus stop one Sunday morning, we had to wade through the shallowest parts of flooding on our access road:
Our wet feet were a nuisance, but the poor drainage posed a bigger problem for the adjacent unfinished apartment complex. The water drained into their multi-story garage, basically creating a 30′ deep lake (mostly underground level):
Interestingly, a week later, the water level has risen, the sun peeked out of the clouds, and men are fishing here:
Maybe they’ll catch a scooter…
That’s pretty incredible! I can’t imagine driving a scooter through that — they seemed to be okay though?
Wet, but uninjured. We keep thinking about getting a scooter, but then we enter the rainy season and defer it to the next year.
Yeah… pretty crazy! I guess the rain is nice particularly compared to the overly dry parts of the US near us – could use some more rain
Looks like hurricane Matthew in China.