Same theme, different date

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

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

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

5/21/2011 - Rain, rain, rain

5/21/2011 - Rain, rain, rain

5/21/2011 - pod flooded

5/21/2011 - pod flooded

5/21/2011 - flooded under our deck

5/21/2011 - flooding under our deck