Summer in San Pancho, Mexico….Oh my, is it hot! It’s a different kind of hot…than like let’s say Palm Springs…Not a dry heat…..It’s hot and it’s Humid…How Humid you ask? About once an hour you put on a new shirt and let the other one dry out. Your hair is constantly wet and it takes on a whole new look like you just jumped out of the pool. The advantages of being here at that time of the year is you have the beach to yourself.
During that time I also got to experience a rain and lightning and thunder storm….as you might not know… our (Roberto’s Bungalow’s) are located in the Rain Forest… by the beach with lots of tall palms waiting to get struck and burst into flames. Haven’t seen it happen, but it just makes sense.
One beautiful sunny afternoon, as I was walking on the beach and I looked down the coast and noticed a real dark cloud formation heading my way….FAST…the sky turned really black real fast…I also noticed a change in temperature….real fast…then it started to rain….not your regular rain….lots and lots of rain….you could say buckets of rain….enough rain that in no time at all the streets looked like little rushing rivers….and then in the distance you could hear the thunder….
NOW.. I have been in thunder storms before…and they were really fun. You know how you see the lightning and then you count one one thousand, two one thousand…that makes it fun and you also realize how safe you are because each one one thousand is suppose to be one mile away from the Zillion volts of electricity pounding down towards you into the earth. Well the louder the thunder got the closer the lightening got….at one point the lightning would hit and you couldn’t count even to one. The whole village would light up like a NFL football stadium in the dark……and then the thunder…and over and over and over. it was so loud that it hurt your ears….and it just kept on coming….at one point I saw the lightning bolts so close I thought they were going to hit me…..and then the thunder right behind it…..at one point they were coming together…the thunder was so loud that I was looking at the other bungalows from the balcony of the main house and I thought the building was going to explode into millions of pieces all over me. I swear to you….I was scared to death….this storm didn’t just go by in a few minutes like most storms….it stayed with us for about 6 to 7 hours. Scary…scary…scary….It knocked out our electricity for a full day…Now it might sound like I am a whoos, but I am not…..just a little sheltered.
The wierdest thing about the storm was the town was still doing business as usual…people were walking in the streets with big smiles on their faces and it seemed like nothing was going on to them…Ladies were walking their kids to school and going to the store like it was a regular day in paradise. It’s weird to me when it’s 90 degrees out and it’s raining like cats and dogs…lightning is hitting and thunder is crashing and nobody notices but me!!! The elictricity was going out around us and when I went down the street with the storm still in full swing and in my panic mode…..I saw a guy from the electric company up on a metal ladder fixing some wires…..OH MY!
See you in the pool with my plastic umbrella!
