Overboard
A couple of weeks ago, we experienced a severe, torrential like rainstorm that lasted 4 days. After the first two days, there were some water spots on the ceiling of the office, but nothing too intense that couldn't wait till Monday. On Monday afternoon, I was talking to one of my coworkers, when he looked into the hallway and said, "hey, what is going on over there?" I went to the hallway and saw a downpour of water coming from the ceiling, down the walls, flooding the back section of the office!
My roommate and I rushed over there, and the whoe section looked like an aquarium. Water was pouring down the walls, water went up to our calves, it was ridiculously crazy. So I hiked up my chitenje to my knees, and we got 10 buckets to catch the dripping water, and started scooping water from the floor and dumping it into the shower. Water was dripping through the wiring where the lights were hooked up, and after 5 minutes, one of the lightbulbs started sparking, and then went dead.
It was a little frightening, and the crazy thing is that no one else in the office was helping us two girls! Later that night, once the water had stopped pouring through, we spent 1 hour mopping up the floors, getting rid of all the water. It was a crazy night. And all we could think about was, "We did not even experience a severe flood." There were towns in the next district that had been victim to severe flooding that had wiped out tens of hectares of farmland, hundreds of homes, and left hundreds upon hundreds of people homeless.
My roommate and I rushed over there, and the whoe section looked like an aquarium. Water was pouring down the walls, water went up to our calves, it was ridiculously crazy. So I hiked up my chitenje to my knees, and we got 10 buckets to catch the dripping water, and started scooping water from the floor and dumping it into the shower. Water was dripping through the wiring where the lights were hooked up, and after 5 minutes, one of the lightbulbs started sparking, and then went dead.
It was a little frightening, and the crazy thing is that no one else in the office was helping us two girls! Later that night, once the water had stopped pouring through, we spent 1 hour mopping up the floors, getting rid of all the water. It was a crazy night. And all we could think about was, "We did not even experience a severe flood." There were towns in the next district that had been victim to severe flooding that had wiped out tens of hectares of farmland, hundreds of homes, and left hundreds upon hundreds of people homeless.
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