Rain, rain and more rain

drying the clothes inside

our small stream became a river

Tropical Storm Agatha took a toll on us here at Casa. For about a week straight it rained and rained and rained. Lots of mud and water! Which is a great combination for kids but with 17 kids it just makes for a headache!!! :)

With 17 kids we started worrying how we were going to dry our clothes and get laundry done. Our dryers had broken but we got them fixed but were advised to not use them again until we got our electric hook up checked on. Well with all of this rain no one has been able to check out the electric hook up. Our clothes were starting to mold and get musty smelling. So that meant we were rewashing.

Finally Sunday we put up clothes lines everywhere inside. I was a little hesitate because I was a afraid the kids would be hanging on them. So far the kids have left the clothes/clothes lines alone.

And here I was worried about all of our laundry piling up here and then getting moldly or the leaks in my roof. There are so many who have lost so much and some of lost everything they own. Here in Santa Ana many have suffered the effects. To begin with they have so little and then to lose what they have worked so hard for is devastating.

According to COPECO, approximately 3,500 people have been evacuated from their homes and nearly 3,300 are living in shelters. More than 140 homes have been destroyed and another 700 have been damaged. Fourteen people are now dead.

Please continue to pray!!