Continued Aftermath of Nate

As I write this I still have friends without water in their homes and roads they cannot get across. It is a week since all these things happened. Luckily my friends do have a rough back way they are able to get out to get water and groceries. I freak when I get up in the morning and my electricity is out...COFFEE!!!

I drove down the opposite direction from my street yesterday to see how my neighbors down that way fared during the storm. From what I could see there were no major problems. There was one home that got as close as a home can get without going over the side with the mud slide. Also, the bridge I took photos from a few weeks ago was under repair. There was already a hole in it when I was there, so I guess it was made much worse by the storm. I did not go down and see. I used my head and decided to turn around.

This morning I was watching all the butterflies and hummingbirds around my plants outside my living room window and it occurred to me; the things that went terribly wrong during the storms were man made. Not nature made. Yes, rivers overflowed their banks, but it will go back by itself. There were mudslides, but in nature it doesn't care. It will just grow more grass on the new area. After all the horrible rain and wind my banana tree is still producing, my lime tree is ready to be picked and my papaya tree now has papayas growing on it. My Morning Glories are blooming and there was a really big gecko in my bedroom this morning. Nature survived. The sun came back out the skies turned blue as though nothing ever happened. I'm thinking we do not have the power. That belongs to Nature through God.

Please continue to pray for Costa Rica. This is going to cost more money than this country has to repair everything that has happened. The country is in need of wisdom.

Pura Vida!