March 08, 2019 – Currents of strong water over the Poza Honda dam. The water reached the 108 mark yesterday.
Poza Honda/Manabi/Ecuador — With a meter of water over the dam, four inches of rainfall sent Poza Honda’s waters rising another meter. Not only did Wednesday night’s rainfall send floodwaters downstream, it also sent another mass of water hyacinths downriver as well.
Several landslides blocked the road on the far side of the dam, but that was a very minor annoyance compared to what the folks downriver are experiencing.
In front of Melissa’s House
Big landslides, no – trees and bamboo down, yes!
If this weather pattern continues, and the flooding makes international news, remember that the little neighborhood where I live is fine.
I’ll be off line until Tuesday, weather permitting!
Have a good weekend!
Zeebra Designs & Destinations 
I was waiting to hear from Becky about your status (she emailed you)! Glad to hear things are ok with you. Manta looked very bad. Wonder if the roof is still leaking.. eek.. they will need a lot of buckets! We are under a foot of new snow here in Alberta after the coldest February in 40 years lol I know how to pick ’em! 🙂 Stay dry Amiga! Prayers for those who aren’t faring as well!
You must surely miss the warm coastal climate. I’m in Mindo and it’s been raining a lot! Thank you for your tireless support!
Oh no! That is a tremendous amount of water. My thoughts go out to you and your lovely friends and neighbors.
Thank you amiga! I’m in the cloud forest this week, and I think that the rains followed me here! It’s been a very ‘heavy’ week of rainfall. Hope all’s ok there in your world.
As we read about flood waters rising and roads being blocked, we are always grateful we live on a bit of a rise up from the ocean in an area with excellent drainage. Still there has been quite a bit of damage in Crucita and standing water in San Jacinto with muddy side streets. It is a mixed blessing/curse though as the hillsides are covered with growth and the subsistence farmers working the hills on the road to Bahia have fields covered with corn. All will be back to normal in a month or so! God bless you in your area!
Thanks for your report and I hope that things continue to be good there in San Clemente. We’ve had several times when we received about an inch of rain every half hour — and yes the water level of the reservoir leaped.. but they release a lot of water, so the levels go down again pretty fast.
I see reports of road closures – one somewhere near Roca fuerte — and one between Chone and San Vicente.. and the road I usually take to go to Chone/Mindo – a back road thru Calceta, but a good one. Or it was. Reports of erosion blocking/washing away part of the road… Some of these areas have problems because of the deforestation – they don’t realize that stripping the hillsides of all trees/vegetation is a horrid curse to the land, and then wonder why erosion destroyed a section of highway!
I remember riding thru that stretch to Bahia with a wildlife biologist and his wife. She looked at the fields and stated, ‘isn’t that pretty?’ and he retorted quite bluntly, ‘NO! It’s horrible! They’re destroying the diversity for monoculture!”
The museo systems are under changes, so I’m not sure if the Manta show is still on the schedule or not for May. It was pending approval thru th system, and so far no news. It would be hard to transport paintings in this unpredictable weather!
Lisa, take care my friend. The troubles you cite, make our problems here so pedestian. All the best, Keith
I see where Charlotte has received snow? How strange – April snow!
The rivers here finally have stopped rising, and they’re beginning to be able to release some water from the surrounding lakes. With a few sunny and relatively windy days ahead of us, the fields may begin to dry a bit, which will please the farmers.
That photo of the mass of water hyacinth is a good one. Those that came down here with the last big flood finally died. We’d like to get rid of the hyacinth, but a raging flood is the least desirable way to do it!
I read where the hyacinths do not survive in salt water… whew.. otherwise it would really be a huge problem when they spill downriver.
Last night I saw a headline about an explosion – was that a second disaster on top of that fire you mentioned? I hope that there’s no more pollution.. Perhaps I should do a check before going to sleep!
Raining hard as I type – the skies are weeping – or purging… or maybe just exercising their rights to enjoy the rainy season!
Yes, there was another explosion. This one was at a plant with numerous safety citations. One person died, two are critically injured. For the community, things are better. The fire is out, and air quality is good.
It’s never good when employees are injured – or die – because of lack of attention to safety. Thank goodness that the fire is out and things are better.
Thanks for the reminder….but in any case, hopefully the flooding will subside before further damage is done. Or in a miraculous turn of events, it flood just in a way that removes all the water hyacinths and leaves everything else refreshed. 🙂
The high water definitely helped purge a lot of the hyacinths, but there are still hectares and hectares of the ‘mass’ in the reservoir. It moves according to wind and current – if the water spills over the dam.
It’s so prolific that I often wonder what its true purpose might be – perhaps there’s a miracle cure to something just waiting to be discovered, and we have an abundance to use – but just don’t know its true worth – aside from purifying water, which is pretty incredible….
I have missed so much here Lisa, and the rainfall and disruption around the world due to weather is awful. Thinking of you dear friend a d thank you X 💕