Monday, July 21, 2008

Island of a thousand lakes

The storm yesterday has moved on and now looks like it will hit south Texas Wednesday as a hurricane. It left Cayman with a lot of flooding and lakes in everyone's yards, streets and parking lots. Because most of the Island is at or just above sea level, there isn't much room for runoff and the rain tends to build up. The field across from ICCI is once again Lake ICCI and will probably take several weeks to dissipate. Driving to work today our small car had to navigate a completely washed over road to get out of our complex with water that was a good 3-4 inches deep. We need several days of no rain to let the accumulation soak into the ground or evaporate. With the height of rainy season still to come in August this was an early indicator of things to come.