When I awoke the morning of Wednesday, January 11, 2006 the rain was drumming down on the roof of our wooden bungalow and I felt my heart sink. Nonetheless, always the positive thinker that I am, I told myself that that was just what the weather report had said: rain at night and into the morning, by noon turning to cloudy and, by 3:00 PM, the sun would actually show up. Looking out the window at the little stream running through our backyard, I saw the muddy water was running fast and was close to overflowing.
Quando mi sono svegliato la mattina di mercoledì 11 gennaio 2006 la pioggia che tamburellava sul soffitto del bungalow mi ha fatto salire il cuore in gola. Dopo un attimo però, con l'attitudine positiva che di solito domina la mia mente, mi sono detto che la pioggia era parte delle previsioni del tempo per la giornata: pioggia durante la notte e in mattinata, nuvoloso a partire da mezzogiorno e qualche raggio di sole dalle 15 in poi.