Hurricane Felix

As many of you already know hurricane Felix passed through Honduras and other Central American countries recently. Thank you for everyone who e-mailed to make sure I was okay, and yes I am fine. Volunteers were first notified over the weekend telling us that the storm was projected to hit Honduras on Monday or Tuesday. Volunteers on the north coast were “consolidated” which means they all had to leave their sites and travel to Siguatepeque, a city in central Honduras and wait out the storm. The rest of the volunteers were on “standfast” which means we weren’t allowed to leave our sites to travel.

It rained about half an hour on Tuesday, all Tuesday night and Wednesday morning in Santa Barbara, which is a lot of rain, but nothing disastrous. This is the river nearby my house; clearly it rose substantially, but not enough to do any damage.

This is what the river normally looks like...

This is the central park full of water.
This is the central park not full of water...

Somehow my bedroom ended up with water on the floor, but I still can’t figure out how, the ceiling and walls were all dry, no sign of leaks, and just one place on the floor was wet. I guess it came from below, but luckily it didn’t do any damage. Although it only rained half a work day and there was no apparent damage, you would think that the worst was coming to Santa Barbara based on how people reacted. Most everything was closed including stores and restaurants, people took the day of work and meetings were canceled throughout the week. I had a meeting planned for Wednesday at 2 p.m. (by that time it was sunny and dry) but of course the meeting was canceled due to la lluvia.
Apparently other parts of Honduras were hit harder with flooding, but from what I know, things didn’t turn out as bad as they could have, lucky for Honduras.