Rain Waited Until The Team Left

We heard a heavy thunderstorm approaching about 4 AM and had very heavy rain until about 8 AM. Since then we've had intermittent thunder and heavy rain throughout the day. It appears that we've gotten at least 4". Amoce and Yanie arrived back in Cayes about 1:00 PM. Amoce said it hadn't been raining in Port. [singlepic id=65 w=320 h=240 float=right]We've had no electricity all day. The inverter ran for most of the day but is used up now. I sent our webmaster (Josh) a picture of the wiring that goes from the pole to house. Perhaps he can post it here. It's pretty sketchy!!! No wonder we have problems! We had leaks in two rooms today (concrete ceilings). Paul went up on the roof and found that fully half of it was covered in water up to 3" deep. All of the roof drains were plugged. He got the plumbing snake and cleaned them out. That problem is now solved. :) I can't help thinking about all of the people living in tents. It's actually so cool and damp that I feel chilly. They must be experiencing so much misery. At Dubreil on Wednesday we were reminded again of how difficult life is here. Despite being our third day in the same place, we saw many more sick people. Two different elderly women were carried to the porch of the house we were working in. One was carried in a stretcher from beyond Platon. The other was carried in a plain steel bedframe (no mattress, just a blanket) from beyond Leprete. Both of these are really mountainous areas. The second woman was given an IV and strong antibiotic then we provided the funds to put her on a truck to the general hospital in Cayes, an hour away by truck. We had two IV's going at once at one point because a 12 year old boy came in. He was ill with a high fever and dehydration. We saw several cases that we thought were TB so we sent them to Cayes for testing. We also saw several confirmed cases of HIV. We're so thankful that the rain held off until after the team left. We would have been unable to go to the clinic sites in this rain. I continue to be amazed that we could be at the same place, Dubreil, for 3 days and yet draw so many sick people from the same area day after day. A note about the electricity in Haiti: From Josh [singlepic id=57 w=320 h=240 float=right]The Close up picture confusing if you don't know what your looking at. What you are seeing is a loose collection of wires going into a house. It has already gone through the electrical meter which is located at the electrical pole on the street. Security on houses is way to tight to allow an electrical worker to come in and look at the meter. From the meter at the pole various lengths of what appears to be 10 gage wire are tied together to reach the house Most of the wire connections are not even covered with a wire nut , so there is live copper exposed to what ever may touch it. In a luxury situation there will be electrical tape around the connections of wire. If everything was not made of cement there would be a real fire hazard.