For weeks, I’ve been staring at a similar weather forecast – rain, rain and more rain. However, that has not been our experience here in Cuenca, Ecuador!
While rain has been forecast for almost every day, we’ve had only three periods of rain in the last three weeks or more. It rained this last Sunday and today, Tuesday. While it has rained hard, with accompanying lightning and very loud thunder, for about an hour (or less), the rain then became a drizzle.
Sunday, I looked out the kitchen window across the river and saw a parade, so I rushed out with my camera and took a few pictures. Because most of the parade was already past, I tried to take a shortcut too take more pictures. Good and bad – I was wrong because the parade didn’t double-back, but I was lucky to be close to the apartment when it started raining rather hard. It really did RAIN on the parade! Quite hard, too.
Today, it also rained quite hard and we were supposed to have another power outage – our first one from 7pm to 10pm. Eating in the dark. But it didn’t happen – either it rained hard enough to get it called off or enough people complained that 7pm-10pm was horrible because they would miss all their TV shows.
John, thanks for your feedback – thought I’d give you a bit more detail on the weather situation here lately.
One thing that we realized upon our return to Cuenca was that we all were scratching very itchy mosquito bites. We had used mosquito nets while sleeping in Loja, but we, nevertheless, were all bitten multiple times.
