The Rain Keeps Comin' Down

The road repairs have continued with the crew digging trenches and filling them with rocks for drainage, and putting in "sleepers" to give support to the clay and hold the road together.  This is one of a few trenches, before it was filled in.

Tom and Dave filled the front end loader with stones brought up from the creek...

...and Jose dumped them over the log in the trench, before putting clay and sand on the top of the roadbed.

This process has turned out to be slower than Tom expected, mostly because of the time it takes to get all of the materials together.  It doesn't help that the road down to the quarry and the river for the rocks is a muddy mess, and it is impossible to move quickly.

In the meantime, it just keeps raining.  We are the blue dot, and it looks like we are in for a very wet afternoon.

This comes after a night of torrential rains, which caused all sorts of damage between here and San Ignacio.  The bridge in Cristo Rey washed out, and we have heard rumors that the Georgeville Road has also washed out, which means we are essentially trapped in the Mountain Pine Ridge.  For us, this is basically an inconvenience since we were lucky to have gone out and shopped yesterday when the roads weren't too bad so we have plenty of supplies, and if the roads don't open before the crew goes home on Saturday, we can always schedule a pickup on the other side of one of the washouts to get them home.  However, we have also heard of all sorts of damage to roads and homes due to the flooding, so we are hoping for the best for everyone.

In the meantime, back to road repair...