Unprepared.

It was still raining when we went to bed last night. Watching the news in San Jose we are starting to get a real idea of what this storm has done. Hanging around off the Central Pacific coast for a couple of days, it has dumped enough rain on us that there have been neighbourhoods flooded out, and many major roads closed.

Rivers are overflowing their banks and rising right up to the bottom of bridges. The road to Atenas from Jaco was closed a couple of hours after we drove on it due to a flash flood that washed a section of it into a river. A chunk of the road to Manuel Antonio from Jaco (a trip we decided not to make because of the rain) was washed into the ocean yesterday, and the town Quepos, built below sea level, was floating in water past knee level. The storm finally made landfall yesterday afternoon, around 45 miles north of Coco, and should now move north and loose impact as it moves across land.

We will be having our meeting with Ruth this morning, as last night's weather was too nasty to go driving around in, and then we are heading back to Coco, where the forecast over the next few days is rain, rain, rain and thunderstorms.

Pura Vida.