Well, the well predicted El Niño has finally slapped the west coast! In the southwest an El Niño is translated rain, and while Californians are jumping up and down and cheering wildly as we are finally getting our much needed rain, water and snow.
Tijuana is drowning! The sprawl of greater Tijuana has never prepared for rain. A well-known fact, and now it comes in bucketfuls. The corrupt Government that should have prepared the city are running around shaking their heads and pointing at each other, while shacks and houses wash down the hillsides and children die in suffocating mud. In one sense it’s comical, on the other hand it’s heart-breaking. Not only houses but lives will be lost. Mexico and it’s people will never learn to think ahead. "Ni Modo" rules.
I’m sitting here warm and dry in my little one bedroom house watching it come down. Sitting here a safe sixty minutes away from an ongoing tragedy. I feel like a general sitting behind the lines trying to figure a way to get supplies to the troops. The question is how.
My cell phone just buzzed another warning of possible flooding.
Today was bad, tomorrow the forecast is for a larger storm and even more rain.
I would, on behalf of the hundreds of poor people that depend on us; ask for your prayers.
