While this has only been our third spring here in the Virgin Islands, it has been abnormally wet using our small track record.  So wet in fact that a few workers returned to the site yesterday for the first time since my previous post.  So nothing was worked on for 9 days.  Nothing, well except that Emily and I continued to work on cypress.  May has basically been a wash out.  The only day it hasn’t rained in May was Thursday.  It doesn’t rain all day every day, but just a little bit of rain, with the ground being so saturated, creates a mess.

I spent both days last weekend moving three submersible pumps around the site trying to get rid of water.  I was fairly successful.  Of course I had everything outside drained and cleared on Saturday, then the early Sunday morning downpour wiped out much of what I had done on Saturday.  I did however dig a few drain channels on Saturday which helped make things a bit quicker for Sunday’s work.

One accomplishment for this week was finally selecting a window manufacturer.  We decided on Domus out of St. Kitts.  Estimated delivery June 30th.  I am not holding my breath though.

5/21/2011

5/21/2011 - Electrical room under 5-6 feet of water

5/21/2011 - Rain, rain, rain

5/21/2011 - pod flooded

5/21/2011 - flooding under our deck