August 17, 2006

Well, you know it's rained too much when the hill behind your house ends up in your backyard. It's been raining all day today. The sun only came out for about 5 minutes around 4pm. The last couple of days have been rainy too, but not in the excess that has been today. This landslide happened before...maybe about 2 years ago, but not this big. And of course we got the run-around from the neighborhood committee and developers as far as who's responsible for the clean up. This is way too much to let that happen again so we called immediately as the earth came sliding down.

I actually thought it was hilarious. Not that a landslide is funny, but this one was. See my mother looks out the door and tells me that the backyard is flooding. We have an extra drainage system under there, but it's just been raining too much. So jokingly I say "Ah! Se cayo el talud!" (which means the hill came down). No joke...not even 30 seconds after I laughingly said that, the hill came sliding down right infront our eyes! My mother screamed, I laughed.

So this is what our backyard currently looks like: