Floods in Bwaise

Well we woke up this morning to blue skies and lathered on the sun cream in expectation of a scorching hot day - Oh boy were we wrong!!!

We arrived at Bwaise as usual but shortly after our arrival the ski turned dark and then the heavens opened with the wind pshing the water in on top of us in the centre. Not only rain but hail stones hit the ground with vigour and our squels of surprise and astonishments could be heard down the street. There was a steady fall for most of the rest of the day, we were lucky that the training room didn't flood more as the neighburing houses were flooded and some people living further down the road had to come up to the doors of the center to get refuge with small childern.

It was an breath taking scene - I've seen rain like that before but never have I seen the localises effect so severe and so sudden. There is a lot to be said for good drainage and its something I won't be so quick to take for granted in the future. What was more was the reation of the locals had it been at home we would have seen locals on the 6 o'clock news and talking to Gerry Ryan about insurance cover and losing valued posessions but here people just waited for the rain to subside and then began to bucket/sweep the water out of their houses using saucpans and brushes. Its not a rare occurence in fact its quite common so people just get on with it, and simple say that living conditions in Uganda are not good...
Well you can see the pictures for yourselves - a picture speaks a thousand words after all...