Did you say a cyclone????

It started raining Tuesday and didn't stop until Wednesday night. In coming to Mexico for 6 years in the winter, we have never seen any rain before. Quite the experience!!!! No water drains away until the sun comes out and evaporates it all. San Blas' highest point is 5 feet above sea level. That is what makes it such a wonderful place for bike riding but not for water drainage!!!

The excitement started about 10:30 p.m. Ray had just come to bed and woke me up changing the fan blah, blah, blah but it wasn't the fan noise that I could hear.
"Ray, are you awake?"
"No!"
"Is that the wind I can hear?"
"Yes!"
"Good grief, something is wrong. It sounds like a hurricane!!!! Get up!"
"No!"

I decided one of us had to be brave and look outside so I got up and headed to the bathroom first. Now, all of our ceilings are about 12 feet high. The window in the bathroom is at ceiling level and about 1 foot by 2 feet. As I sat on the toilet, my short hair was blowing around!!!!! Now I'm positive something is very wrong!!!

"Ray, get up!!!!"
"No, I'm asleep!!!"
I head into the living room in the dark and suddenly about 4 feet from the front window, I'm wading in water!!!!! The house is leaking!!!!

"Ray, get up right now!!!!" and Mr. Brilliant says back, "Don't get excited!!!!"
Let's have a short recap. Hurricane outside, water flooding the inside. Not a time to get excited?
"If now is not a time to get excited, then I'm not sure when a good time could possibly be!!!!"

He finally staggers out of the bedroom and exclaims, "What do you want me to do? It will be fine in the morning." Yeah right, if we live that long!!!!!
"Get a pail and mop. Start piling the furniture up!!!"

I mopped and mopped and mopped and mopped.Every room in the house was leaking between the wall and floor or coming in the window. About an hour later I was mopping the living room again when I saw a gecko leaving the house through a crack around the front door. It seems to me that when the wild life is leaving and not wanting to stay inside to be protected from the storm, it isn't a good sign!!!!!

I finally make it back to bed where Ray has been for a very long time and I'm have trouble sleeping as my thought for the day is, "I know you can die in your sleep from smoke inhilation. Can you die in your sleep from drowning?????!!!!!"