flooding

If you check the tropical weather forecast, there is something sitting right over our part of Guatemala.  I can't tell if it's part of the tropical storm that is going through Mexico or something separate that is producing A LOT of rain.  It rained all yesterday morning, which is very unusual.  Then it POURED all night...

And flooded our neighborhood.

I woke up at a little before 5 to my host family waking up and getting to action on the flooding downstairs.  (Thankfully, the house has two floors, so we have somewhere to go.)  At the moment, the rain is still coming down.  Last time I saw somebody walk by in the street, the water was waist deep.  Apparently, the last time a hurricane came through here, it was another part of town that flooded.  My host mom doesn't think we'll have to leave...at least she hopes the water won't get that high.  We do have a roof to go to if it comes to that...we would have to get A LOT more rain before resorting to that, though.

Hopefully the rain will stop soon so everything can go down.  I've heard that's what it typically does here as soon as soon as the rain has somewhere to go.