It Rained!

Early morning on the 19th, the sound of dripping water woke me up, I thought it was not supposed to rain until about November time (the previous rain shower was in mid May), So the next thought was, has a dog got into the compound and found my boots to chew?

No, it was rain dripping off the roof. Blame global warming.

In town, some of the taller buildings were shrouded in mist and it was downright humid.

Coming back for lunch and there was a holdup while a tree was removed from the roof of a girl's car. It looked like the roots had given up the struggle and the tree had come over. Possibly during the night, as the girl was looking on, un-hurt.

The soils in Luanda are often loosly packed sands, held together by clay at the grain contacts. When they get wet they behave like a sugar lump does when it gets wet, and loose most of their strength. Most of the streets have water running down their gutters from burst pipes, so perhaps that is what happened to the tree.