Repairs

 My house, which has been leaking rather liberally from the roof down for the past few weeks, is finally under repair, although I'm a bit concerned about how effective this is going to be, given that the rain continues with little pause. Hopefully, the patching they did on the roof will have dried before the downpour proceeds again. After insuring that the leaks are staunched, they will need to scrape and repaint the inside wall, which is currently spotted with a black mold. Everything here is damp and soggy, and a couple of nights ago we had a sort of miniature hurricane, which was pretty exciting--trees going sideways, garbage flying down the street, along with garbage bins. When too much rain falls in the back garden area, the water level actually rises above the level of the ground floor of the house and simply flows in under the sliding doors. On a positive note, however, things like electricity and wifi service have been holding up rather well compared to some years ago--in fact, we have not lost electricity even once--a vast difference from the daily outages we used to experience in the past.