Lightning! ¡Ay Díos mio!

Last night I was working on some homework/studying for today's exam/facebooking late into the evening at the University. We were without internet at the house. It was raining. At maybe 9 pm, after hearing some thunder, I heard the absolutely loudest thunder I have ever heard in my whole entire life. I jumped out of my chair a little bit. It was quite startling. My ears hurt. I figured if it had been that loud, it must have been pretty close.

I didn't think about it again until this morning when I had no water to take a shower. I was pissed because I thought it was a glitch from the power going off for about half an hour last night. I contemplated taking my towel into the main house to see if I could use one of the other showers, but decided it would be more convenient to take a baby wipe bath. I was really unhappy about not being clean because today was the last day of class and I knew we were going to take pictures. Plus, we're leaving for Panama today. But whatever. I survived the photos and I'll survive the epically long van ride.

At breakfast I found out that no one at the house had water because the thunder I heard last night was caused by a huge lightning bolt which hit in the middle of the street that runs kitty-corner to the university. Here is a link to the photo on my web album. You can see on the little map on the right side where the photo was taken. You can also see how close to the university it is.

When I got to school, most of my classmates hadn't had water either. Only the few who lived super far from the school still had water. The lightning had burst the pipe running under the street. I hope that there's water when I get back from this weekend!

UPDATE:

There was indeed water when I returned. They closed the street and started making repairs. It took them less than two weeks, which I think is pretty good considering I heard they had to replace the whole length of pipe under the street and then repave the entire thing.

"Potable water is health and development"