Water water everywhere and every drop it...stinks!

Well yesterday I lived through my 2nd natural disaster in 3 years. It all started at about 3 am with a little rain. That rain soon turned into a disaster when it kept coming for the next 9 hours! My first clue to that this storm was no ordinary storm was when lighting woke me up several times, now I've only seen lightning here one other time even though we get a lot of rain storms over here. Well I didn't quite realize what kind of beast we were dealing with until I got up the next morning. This was the view off my porch! It was quite the shock!

It didn't look that bad at first, but then I started to explore and I soon found out that I luckily live on the high end of Iosepa.

This was the depth at the gutter outside my house


Looking down the Rio Iosepa

This house was hit the worst. It was built about 2ft below street level. Eventually the water formed a moat around the house. The water was up to my thigh, and I was on the street.

Rio Kulanui was the hot spot for Laie, I think I saw a spear fisher pass by me. I love the girl who looks stranded on the lightpost. Jen still had to go to campus (which was only a few inches under water) to take a final and as she was walking through the water she had cockroaches crawling on her! As we were talking one crawled into her pocket! Luckily they werent crawling on me! Everyone else was saying that they saw huge centipedes and all other sorts of creepy crawlies swimming through the poo water.




The best part of this picture are the bubbles comming up in the middle of the road...yup that would be the sewer pipe bubbling up!


This was taken after the water started to go down. You can tell because you can start to see the top of the hedges in the yard behind me.

They had to dig a huge ditch beside foodland so all the water could enter the ocean, the ditch was there before, but it was basically an overgrown gutter. They fixed that!


You can see where they started to dig that leads to the street next to Iosepa. Well after they dug the huch ditch the water drained in a few hours and the flood receded. Although there were still areas that were left flooded. The fields on campus turned into a lake, but nothing new (except for the fancy signs warning us of the poo water). The straight river in front of the field was the sidewalk, needless to say I was walking on the street which was dry.


This was on my walk back to campus around 4 pm about 12 hours after it started. All in all I survied the disaster and with no flood damage or injuries. Now we just have to survive the stench that is left, pray for good weather to dry it all up...fast!