Two of the beautiful women from church. They wear wonderful headwraps that match their dresses. We should adopt that custom back home. It would really help out on bad hair days!
This is one of our porches to our apartment. It has had problems with the drain. One night a huge storm hit and within two hours, the entire thing filled up(it is 7 feet by 24 feet and is 6 inches high). We were in the bedroom which is in the back of the apartment watching a movi
e. As we got up from the movie, we noticed water pouring into our bedroom from the hall. As we scurried to investigate where the water was coming from, we found that our entire porch was flooded and was spilling into our apartment. It had already flooded the living room, dining room and kitchen and had flooded the hallway down to our bedroom! What a mess! It was about 11:00 at night but I ran down to the guard station to get help while Elder Moon started bailing water. We had four guards helping Elder Moon and I clean up and trying to unclog the drain to the porch. We finally got to bed about three hours later. We thought the problem had been fixed but a few weeks later another storm hit and it started filling up again. This time we knew that we had to keep an eye on things. Elder Moon tried all sorts of things but in the end he had to take one of the drainage pipes off the outside wall and we found a rock that had lodged in the pipe. Over time I guess it had collected all sorts of debris that had clogged the pipe. It was great as the next few storms hit to not worry about being flooded, something you don't expect when living five floors up from the ground!
e. As we got up from the movie, we noticed water pouring into our bedroom from the hall. As we scurried to investigate where the water was coming from, we found that our entire porch was flooded and was spilling into our apartment. It had already flooded the living room, dining room and kitchen and had flooded the hallway down to our bedroom! What a mess! It was about 11:00 at night but I ran down to the guard station to get help while Elder Moon started bailing water. We had four guards helping Elder Moon and I clean up and trying to unclog the drain to the porch. We finally got to bed about three hours later. We thought the problem had been fixed but a few weeks later another storm hit and it started filling up again. This time we knew that we had to keep an eye on things. Elder Moon tried all sorts of things but in the end he had to take one of the drainage pipes off the outside wall and we found a rock that had lodged in the pipe. Over time I guess it had collected all sorts of debris that had clogged the pipe. It was great as the next few storms hit to not worry about being flooded, something you don't expect when living five floors up from the ground!
OK, no makeup or hairdo but we found the rock. Amazing what something that small can do!
Typical way to catch a ride to wherever someone is going.
Typical way to catch a ride to wherever someone is going.
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