waves on the street

Two days ago there was an incredible spectacle happening on the streets of Guayaquil.

Ecuador is in the winter season, which means it’s really hot during the day (between 30 and 40 degrees), cold during the night (never less then 24 degrees) and it rains a lot.
Well, it’s the time of EL NINO, a natural phenomenon that brings a lot of rain. But actually it wasn’t really raining so much for the past months and not as strong as usually during that time as the locals told me. Of course, when it rained it did so heavily – but in comparison to the other day it was NOTHING!

Dude, I’m telling you that was just incredible!!! For the ones that remember the flood in Lucerne – it rained like that or even stronger.
The funny thing though comes now… They definitely have a problem with their canalizations here, which means that they are all full of trash and that’s why the water can’t flow off. As I’ve written before everybody litters, throws trash on the street and not in the not available bins. So ones it rains the rain spoils all this water to the drains and these obviously get clogged.
Conclusion of the whole thing is that all the water gets stuck on the street and that therefore the streets are not streets anymore but lakes.I’m not exaggerating saying that there was 8cm water on the streets – all over in the city!!
It was kind of funny walking home from the bus station (define bus station: where I want the bus to drop me off) having all my feet in the lake of the street.
Observing this spectacle for a little while – I was just fascinated – I even saw some little waves on the street. That was really funny and such a great picture…

Still think Guayaquil should do something about the trash on the street problem. Jajajaja