A New Season in Guangzhou

We have suddenly moved from spring to a new season we haven’t experienced before, a continue downpour of buckets of water from the sky.  It would be a misnomer to call this rain, but it is water from the sky.  The sky is overcast gray and dark outside even in the middle of the day with loud claps of thunder and lightening that seem to crack very close by. It comes in waves about an hour at a time then a short brake more thunder and lightening followed by another deluge of buckets of water. I think an appropriate name for this would be “river.”  There are constant rivers of water where streets and sidewalks used to be.  It is obvious that this isn’t the first time this has happened in Guangzhou, there is a drainage system designed to manage the water with slops and slants to the street drains. Many of the drains are in overflow as well as the overflow in the middle of the campus lake.  We have been in the “river” season for five days now and the entire week forecast is for more of the same.  Temperatures are in the 70-80 and storms every day all day.

Our windows are all steamy and you can feel the dampness in the air inside and out.  I imagine this is where the mold and mildew sets in as well. I am sure this will create interesting laundry situations without a dryer to toss in the wet clothes. More fun still to come.

Rain shoes for deep and deeper rivers on campus!