November 9, 2009
Dear Friends,
Last night hurricane Ida came over. It had almost no wind, but lots of rain. It is more rain and higher creeks than anyone here has ever seen. The local little creeks are already dropping, it stopped raining around midnight here. The big rivers are still going up, and will not peak for some time yet. We don't know which bridges will be washed out, or which villages yet. Many Nicaraguan villages are right on the edge of rivers.
We arrived back from our 2 month visit to America one month ago. It was a good visit, nice to see all our family. We enjoyed meeting other missionaries at ASI, a meeting of Seventh-day Adventist businesses and leaders in Phoenix in August.
Since returning, I have been to San Carlos taking in a nurse and medicine, and checked 2 new runways being built. One is in Raiti, about 1/2 done, and the other in Kukalia, which is only waiting for paperwork.
The road we take to Puerto Cabezas every month is deteriorating. It now takes 5 to 6 hours to make the 75 mile trip with the truck.
We are almost done with the dirt filling to level a place for an airplane hanger and ready to start the construction. We have staked out the place for a cement widow's house and cleaned it. We will start leveling it as soon as the water goes down so we can get gravel.
We have an American named Greg here helping us get Internet. He is working where we use to work, at the Tasba Raya mission in Francis Sirpi, 1 hours drive from here. Right now he is staying with us because we are working on building a repeater on a hill a few hours hike from here that will transmit the signal from our nearest town, Waspam, to both us in Tronquera and him in Francia. It will be really life changing if it works.
Runway inspections are coming up next week, but all this rain we just got may delay that.
God Bless,
Clint and Marilyn
www.wingsovernicaragua.org
PS. November 7 update: The water from the hurricane appears to not have substantially hurt any villages upriver from Waspam, which covers our area.
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