Update from Hyderabad

Our dear friend Becca is in Hyderabad right now, and her experiences inspired our last post on rainwater harvesting and flooding.  The Hindu daily newspaper quoted the recent flood as the worst flood in a hundred years.  Becca took this picture yesterday from Mennupadu, which is en route to the city of Kurnool from Hyderabad.  Kurnool was hit very hard hit by the floods. Visit Becca’s website to check out a list of articles on the floods and check out all the good things she’s doing in the world.

Catching the Rain

The final rains of the rainy season fell today in Guadalajara, according to our friends here. We captured the sounds and sights from our apartment. The picture is of Arthur leaning out the window to record the rain, thunder, bird calls, noisy buses and church bells intermingling. In documentaries, it’s always good to have background noise and transition shots, so we began collecting that footage today. It felt great to embark on the documentation process visually and aurally.

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