Well, it has been a very wet month here in Chiriqui, but we can be thankful that we have not seen the flooding being experienced by our neighbors to the west of us. Costa Rica and countries further north have been hammered.
Excerpts from Climate Change Corp: The National Meteorological Institute (IMN) of Costa Rica says that
Costa Rica's 2008 rainfall is going to be the heaviest in 60 years, and
a significant portion of that has fallen over the past week in
association with the remnants of a tropical depression. 100,000
residents have also been forced to leave their homes over four
countries in Central America, with the majority of the evacuees coming
from Costa Rica.
Up to 15 inches of rain fell after Tropical Depression 16 moved through
last week, which led the IMN to declare the floods to be the worst in
over a century. Seven people died from the flooding in Costa Rica, four
in Nicaragua, three in Honduras, and one each in El Salvador and
Guatemala.
Bridges were smashed, villages were flooded and roads have been blocked by the flooding in Costa Rica. The latest round of rain is coming on top of what has been one of, if not the most intense rain season on Costa Rican record.
Experts are blaming the record rains on the influx of tropical storms that have rocked the region. A steady amount of storms have moved through the region and have 'sat over' Central America, moving slowly and dumping heavy rains for days at a time.
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