It rained the whole day. I was obliged to go to work by bus. The lower parts of my trousers legs were splashed with water as I went through the curtain of rain to the station. My shirt sleeves also got wet despite the protection of my umbrella. Upon my arrival at school, I changed into dry clothes I had taken there before. When seven of us teachers took the van homeward, we saw a large swamp appeared in the low-lying fields at the south of the village. A vast expanse of crops had almost been submerged. A shallow water flow several meters wide was crossing the road nearby.