Today just an update. It's a bit chaos at and around our site.
This disturbing monster monsoon goes on. Super typhoon Noru just passed. Happy we 'only' got strong winds and even heavier rains last night as an effect of this typhoon as a severe depression. A new typhoon seems to be on its way so this weather will not stop soon.
So also October will be very, very wet without time for the lands to dry. Sad for the farmers because the rice just is getting their seeds and with that becoming heavy. Rain in combination with wind will blow and break the plants and the seeds will drop into the water and will start to rot. Lots of moisture already around us and mushrooms are happy to grow.
The situation of today is that all the entrances to our construction and living site are blocked. At several sides the road is eroded and sometimes even there are holes of over 3 meters deep. Even the walkway to the village, between our rice field and the neighbor collapsed. The water at that place is about 1 meter deep.
Several trees already collapsed and more will start to fall down we guess. At our place so far till this morning already four trees collapsed causing some damage on a solar lamp, the fence and entrance gate and the Indonesian garden temples.
As one of the pictures shows the roots at several places are not connected with soil anymore and if so the soil is only mud. It does not give any stability. At a neighbor's rubber tree forest next to our land also trees already start to fall. Getting some wind for sure will give a domino effect.
So we cannot go, or enter, by foot, by scooter, by car or by truck. And the government, after the rain finally will stop, has lots of work to do. We are not priority at all. So... we have to wait on our island.
Happy to be self supporting for a big part but still, at least, an adventure.
This all is the reason for sure we cannot complete the second guest pyramid this month and like it seems now will not be able to start with the main house at the beginning of November.
Writing this blog rain showers are still ongoing. All together slow progress already for weeks in a row. A delay, and actually no delay at all. We have no schedule and I am retired so what about a delay?
Frans Captijn
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