Caracas has made CNN. Again. Not for the crazy president, but for the torrential rains that have drenched the area. Yesterday, the government declared a state of emergency and closed the schools for the rest of the week in anticipation of more rainfall, and the ensuing flooding and landslides. Here is a picture of the sky this morning from my bedroom. You can't see the Avila - as the clouds are obscuring the view. 
We are OK. We live up on a hill so flooding is not an issue. We already have landslides around the building on the property and in the surrounding areas - but nothing major. My neighbor might have to leave her building due to a very large landslide that may have affected the structural integrity of the building. 
The weirdest part is the waiting... It is almost like when a hurricane hits the Gulf of Mexico, and we wait to see which way it will go. We know it will hit somewhere, and it will be bad, and it might be us, but probably not. But here, I am not surrounded by my best friends, making gumbo, and telling stories. AND we don't have weather.com or wunderground.com - where during hurricane season, I am freakishly glued for days at a time. So I sit and stare and the fat grey clouds outside of my window, waiting for the rain to start, and for whatever will happen, to just happen.
The rest of the photos are a series of pictures taken from the property around my building. We have one minor and one moderate slide so far. The area above the driveway had a slide last year which was repaired, and now the area just lateral to the repair has failed.
I will keep everyone posted. But again, we are fine!
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