Dudes... since we got back to Jakarta, it has rained basically non-stop. And by "rained," I mean poured. Torrential. Hour after hour... Hard to tell from looking at my video above, but you can definitely hear it.
The city is a mess: flooding everywhere is inundating people's homes, closing roads, stopping trains, causing landslides and generally wreaking havoc on life. Check out
some photos here and
video here. Some of Tim's employees took 4 hours to get to work, some didn't make it at all (
stuck at the train station, unable to get to the office or home), most are battling endless roof leaks (like us... we've got buckets catching rain throughout the apartment). Sigh. It's pretty insane.
UPDATE: Holy crap, now
the Indonesian President's palace is flooded, as well as the Hotel Indonesia Circle (
Bundaran HI), right where I used to work (remember
the photos I took of the protests at
this circle earlier this year?):
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| photo from Jakarta Globe |
We are doing ok still, and avoiding flooded areas.
