In all weathers...

dust trail from a passing vehicle

A month or so ago and the problem was dust in the dry season, any vehicle driving along on the murram (gravel) roads leaving a long cloud in the wake… not so pleasant for any pedestrians…  It also meant our river water levels were lower and so we had some power cuts in the evenings at peak demand time.  

But on a positive note the sun reveals some breathtakingly beautiful colours in the world around such as these flowers…

Now we are into the wet season.  We are about 5,500 feet above sea-level here in the Kigezi highlands so not surprisingly we are sometimes in cloud and can have quite violent thunderstorms as happened last week… unfortunately a lightning bolt must have connected to our high-tension wires and resulted in the burning out of a control circuit board.  As a result our main 300kW hydro-electricity generator was out of action for a couple of days but the hospital ran without problem on our back-up 60kW hydro-electricity turbine.  We are grateful to the Kisiizi Hospital Power Limited staff and  supporters who worked to get everything back to normal.

 The photo below was taken in the late evening when it was pitch black - yes, its a flash photo, but in this case the flash did not come from the camera but from lightning...

 But most of the time we are blessed with beautiful weather patterns, changing lighting and skies...