A Hard Rain Fell

It's the rainy season here and that means that in addition to being quite hot, it rains almost every day. Last night it poured and poured, and is continuing to come down slowly. After a wet commute to work this morning on a tuk-tuk that was in the middle of a repair when we were offered a ride, we got to work to find the block of offices next to ours flooded. The project office for the avian influenza team was about 8 inches under water. Computers were soaked, file cabinets were full of water and papers were aimlessly floating around.

Everyone pitched in and carried out what was salvageable and the team relocated to some free space until the office can be pumped out. While a flooded office isn't an everyday occurrence, the unexpected is always expected. So, people just roll with the setbacks and make do. The attitude is very un-Western, but a better way of tackling problems I think.