Wow. It happened yesterday as well. After about 15 minutes of rain, the street turns into a river. The water races down a steep road and curves into this road where i live. Its raining pretty hard but not super-hard. It amazes me how much water falls from the sky in such a short time. Im glad we dont live at the bottom of the hill. My camera broke last week so i cant take a photo. But, wow.
July 21, 2008
July 14, 2008
Lluvia de Peces (Rain of fish!)
Last week i learnt about a place in Honduras that rains fish every year and has been for the last 100 years. Its a town in the department of Yoro which is a few hours from where i am. Its an incredible story. The story goes that over a century ago, a Father José Manuel Subirana was working in the town and was devastated with the desperate poverty. He fell into a fevered prayer that lasted for days, praying for provisions for the people of the town. When he finished praying, a storm came and after the storm the people found fish littered all over the streets. The fish were still alive and they took them and ate them. Since then it has been happening every May/June like clockwork. Its the only place in the world where it rains animals frequently. There are other places where it has rained frogs for example, but it only happens once.