I don't know what "monsoon season" normally looks like, but I reckon it's here!
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I had the above written and in "draft" last night. Dinner was a huge success, the littles were in bed and I was taking some much needed quiet time to myself. I was about to pour a glass of wine when Todd walked in from work and said "the house is flooding."
I was going to write a nice little post about how refreshing the rains are. How it cools the city down and is a welcome respite from the stifling heat and humidity of summer in Delhi.
Instead the rains last night caused (in one respect) and greated added to (in another respect) the makings of a very frustrating evening.
We spent the next couple of hours with nearly every towel in the house and the squeegee as we tried to get the water OUT of the house and away from boxes, furniture and our rugs. It wasn't a CRAZY flood issue, as we only had an inch or so of water in the house, and thank goodness we don't have a lick of carpet anywhere!
Our guard was so helpful and several times yelled in Hindi "Mum should NOT be worrying herself with this mess."
Shortly after we got the water all cleaned up, the power started to flicker. No worries, I thought -- give the automatic generator about 4 seconds and we'd be back to normal. Not so. The generator sputtered, coughed and then quit.
The next 3 hours were then spent in total darkness, smothering stillness in the house because of lack of A/C or fans. We called Sanjeev, the facility manager and it was decided that our contactors (?) fried and completely blew.
We got the generator working (thanks to Sanjeev) and got a couple of hours of sleep.
Thank goodness Delhi doesn't get anywhere near the rainfall that the Southern parts of India receives!
