It’s that time of year again… the rains have come and it seems they’re trying to make up for lost time!
Uganda has two wet seasons each year, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict when they will happen – making farmers’ lives somewhat tricky. Here in the East of Uganda, next to the foothills of Mt Elgon, we mostly having sunny mornings and evenings, separated with torrential afternoons. The downpours are accompanied by vicious hurricanes and exciting thunderstorms.
At the end of March we had a particularly heavy storm and we were grateful for our lightning conductor rods up on our roof – as the forks of lightning seemed to be directly over our heads! The wind was ‘blowing a hooley’ and our school corridors seem to act like a wind tunnel. Unfortunately we had forgotten to bolt one of the doors and it slammed open breaking the glass and making the children scream! No one was harmed but Bex was nearly blown to Kampala while fighting to shut the door!
