Flooding, Flooding, and more Flooding....

(Nate, after a long day of trench digging, shows off the depth of our new and unexpected lake)

Ok, so personal projects have been completely put on hold. I'm sorry I know that you are all patiently waiting for your children biographies, yet I'm literally knee deep in puddles throughout my home and don't really know what to do. If you can all hang tight for a little while longer it would be greatly appreciated. Here are some pictures so you can see what's going on.

(View of the property sitting in the lake. Please note that the cabanas normally sit approximately 12 inches above ground level, and as demonstrated by the far cabana, water is actually flooding in)

The reason for the flooding in a new road which has been constructed on the peninsula in order to increase tourism and foreign investment to the area. The problem with the new road is that the lovely engineer who was hired forgot to put in any type of drainage system. Instead he raised the road up at least a foot higher than it was and literally plugged up the natural drainage of the entire peninsula. It is scary to see.

(Curly enjoying the ease of drinking water from the new lake. He doesn't even have to leave the comforts of the house, just needs to get to the door.)

Over the past several days Nate and I have secured a meeting with the mayor of El Viejo and collected over 150 signatures of community members effected by flooding from the construction of this new road. Yesterday we and several community members attended the meeting. We were really hoping for the best. But honestly they say they have done nothing wrong and the flooding is on our property which is considered private property, and therefore this is now a private matter. Haha, the funny thing is if you walk the road you can see how necessary it is for them to add culverts and drainage swales. Yet they do nothing, and help with nothing. The kicker, this property is really the governments, we just rent the land from them.