reclaiming my heart: "Moto" ing in the rain.

Today was a washout, the team got up and had breakfast, we decided to go and work. There was a good chance of the back side of Irene was coming for us, dumping 5 gal buckets of water on the team. We got to the jobsite, I drove the moto through a path and parked it by the house. We started to get ready to do block on the sidewalls, it rained so much, there was a river of water coming down from the house in back of us. We needed to take block and line them up to divert the water, so the house we were working on didn't flood out. Since we stopped the flow of water into the job site, we still had to swim through 8" of standing water. At the same time when the flood was coming half the team had to get the truck unstuck, to say the least it was a hairy situation
When the rain subsided and after the dove came back with the stick, we worked furiously to work on the house, we got a good 30 min of work done, then the heavens opened up again, we all got under a tarp, the water came down so hard we filled up a 5 gal bucket running off the tarp every minute for 10 minutes.

The final time it let up, Mikey told everyone to get in the truck and get out of here while we still had a opening of the weather. Everyone got to the truck, except ME, I rode the Moto into the job site. You need to realized the soil in Haiti is clay and very slick when it get wet. So I was the last one out and I needed two Haitians to get the moto out of the trail, the mud was every where(sorry Tim I got the moto dirty). It started to rain AGAIN and the 4 mile trip back to Isaiah House was very wet and soggy all the mud I had on me and the moto was washed off and tonight I will save on water, no shower tonight. Scott