And Rain in Ecuador

All the schools here were closed today because of the rain (I guess we get "rain days" rather than snow days). The intense rains that have fallen on Ecuador this year already caused severe flooding along the coast and now the rains are affecting the mountain regions as well.

Monday afternoon a large sinkhole opened up at the intersection of 4 main roads in Quito. This intersection is one of two ways to travel from the north part of Quito to the south. (The other way, a tunnel, was briefly flooded on Monday as well.)

Schools may be canceled for the rest of the week until a temporary solution can be found for the traffic problems. There are also numerous landslides along many of the roads.

Please continue to pray for Ecuador. As I sit here at the computer, it is raining hard again. And here is a picture of the large sinkhole. It is 150 feet in diameter and 150 feet deep. For any of you who have been here to visit and have traveled south out of Quito, you probably drove through this circle to get onto the highway south out of Quito.