Be afraid...be very afraid....

....of our laundry basket which has erupted.

That's what happens when you can't wash clothes for over a week because of the rain. And the clothes we had to wash on Monday (remember the throw up incident?) are STILL not dry, even the ones hanging up inside. I washed my hair at 3 pm on Saturday afternoon and let it airdry like always, no ponytail or anything, and at 11:30 when we were going to bed, it was STILL wet. I realize i have extraordinarily thick hair, but that's just uncommon. The moisture in the air is disgusting. The walls of our house are literally crying (you can see the water coming through the walls) they are SO soaked.

Aside from the not so serious comment about our clothes, we are really burdened for our country. The fact that we can't wash clothes is really such a non-issue when you see how others are suffering. At this very moment, it is not raining and it looks like the sun might want to come out, but this morning it was raining which makes one complete week of rain without a break. That doesn't sound so bad if you've never lived in such a fragile and vulnerable country like El Salvador. School will probably be cancelled the rest of the week b/c almost all the schools are being used as refuge centers for people that has lost their homes due to flooding and mudslides.

A 15 year old in our church lost his home on Saturday where he lives with his single mom and 4 siblings, one being a 2 month old baby. That's starting to hit close to home when you have a face that goes with news like this. He only lives about 10-15 minutes away. We took up donations yesterday at church for his family and for our sister church in Comasagua which is a mountain town that has been completely isolated due to the rain. Both entrance ways are closed due to mudslides so the members of the community had to hike down the mountain to get the donations and then hike it back up. Another friend of mine who lives about 10 minutes away was evacuated because of potential landslides since she lives near the base of the volcano. Dinora could not come to watch Suzy today because the main highway going out to her town is blocked from landslides. Usually during this time of year, there is a change in the weather and the rains stop and the wind picks up. Always before a change in weather, there is a little tremor. Our fear right now is that if the ground shakes like it usually does, all of this loose earth will not be able to handle it and that could cause even more damage.


Right now, 32 have died and over 20,000 have been evacuated from their homes.





p.s. you know how i mentioned at the beginning of this post that it wasn't raining anymore? Well, it started again already.