Guatemala is certainly getting their fair share of bad weather events. First Pacaya erupts. This causes the International Airport to close. We are not sure when it will open again. They are talking about next week. There is 2 inches of soot and ash on the runway. Reports are the volunteer street sweepers are literally hand sweeping the runways. That could take some time. Even when they get it swept up where do they put the stuff?
Now TS Agatha has made landfall on the west coast and has brought life-threatening floods to the country. Morales a small town close to us is flooding. The river is higher there than it was during Hurricane Mitch!
We have been asked to have our water tanks on the boat full and to ration water. The Rio Dulce is on the rise. Not sure how long we will have electricity or if we will have to move off the dock. We will see what happens.
There are reports that bridges are collapsing between the Rio Dulce and Guatemala City. This could cause even more problems for people that need to get to the city to fly out.
Even with all of this we are safe. No boulders are falling on the boat. The boat floats and is self- contained.
There are hundreds of Guatemalans that have been evacuated from their homes and have lost everything. Currently there are 14 Guatemalans that have lost their lives. We are simply inconvenienced.
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