Posted: Lots of rain

We got absolutely pounded by rain. I have never seen rain like this. It has been raining extremely hard for the past couple days. Its nuts.
So on wednesday (yesterday) we woke up and had PT. We did PT in the rain and it was pretty hard because the company (company: around 120 soldiers) commander (rank of captain like 4-8 years in the army) was leading our pt and he worked us hard and made do pushups and stuff on the rainy ground. fun. It rained all day. After PT i had to change. Then after a un exciting work day i had to change because i was covered in rain. So at that point im down to my last set up clean clothes really. So i put on civilian clothes because the work day is done then i take a cab to the PX to get internet.
It was rainy super super super super hard. It was crazy. the rivers like 10 feet higher than usually. I mean when it rain it rains hard but on top of that there are so many hills and mountains the runoff floods the base. So i get to the PX and it rains adn rains and then they stopped running buses and taxis because the conditiosn were so terrible. So me and some cadets were like dang we gotta leave the PX before it gets even worse. So five of us go out and we strap up our backpacks high in case we have to wade water and stuff and i have on a poncho.

So we get out the px and its ccrazy so i gotta take off my glasses cuz they just fog up. Then we walk out and see the baseball field and pool and they are just completely flooded. The field looked like it was like chest deep water. So we walk around and have to walk up the road in like ankle deep water that was running fast. Then we start getting to a pedestrian bridge over the water. Man all of the little run off canals they made for run off from the hills are almost overflowing. It was nuts. So luckily the river wasn't over the bridge so we get over it but on the other side there is knee to waist to water. That water was flowing into the river to so it was going pretty fast. We just said f it and waded through it. I got a picture at that point, its not very good but you can make out someone walking in knee deep water. So yea we eventually got to our building safe and wet.
This morning I woke up and got all call from my sponsor and he said To be in ACUs instead of PT gear this morning. So i was like hmm are we doing combatives (wrestling) pt in the mud again. So on my way there barbed wire fences are destroyed by debris and we get to the area were we do our pt and there is oil and mud and water in knee to ankle deep water. Some of the auxillary building adjacent to the barracks were on there side. I mean some of the barracks are on a hill so debris is all over them. There was a landslide that hit one of the fuel tanks next to a barracks that caused the oil to spill. And the landslide jsut caused a new small stream valley type thing up the hill. So we went to the motorpool and there was knee deep water there and some of the connix's(which are like tiny versions of rail cars and there steel) were on there side. So ya basically they told us to go in our rooms and not do anything because it was going to take a while to get things cleaned up.
So we got 22 inches of rain in 36 hours. Now as a comparison in June 2008 wisconsin got 6 to 13 inches of rain and that was over like several days. So it was a lot of rain. In the town nearby there was like 9 deaths and there was chest high water. So here some pics i took today