Flash Flooding in St. Kitts

Last week St. Kitts was hit with a hard rain storm. It is a normal occurance to receive rain daily, but it usually only lasts for about an hour and then passes by. Last week it seemed to last for about three days. Through the center of our town, Basseterre, there are two "river-like" structures that they call ghauts. These structures drain the rain that comes down from the mountains and runs off through the city, out to the ocean. Usually after a decent rain they will be somewhat difficult to drive through but after last week there was no crossing them. Driving to school was interesting but by the end of the day we were stuck at campus. The roads were closed down and like everything else on this island it took them too long to clean it up. I signed up to live in paradise...this is very far from it!

It would not let me take the pictures from the website to post on the blog but see the below site for some photos of our town...

http://www.sknvibes.com/flashflood/