Dick wrote:
This morning [Friday] we headed for home. I would like to say that it was a leisurely drive but it rained all of the way home. This was no ordinary rain but a downpour. I was glad that the wiper blade that broke yesterday managed to stay together and that the allen wrench that I used as a splint worked out so well but as hard as it was raining it was still difficult to see all of the hundreds of pot holes that were in the road.
When we finally reached Esquentla we discovered that the road to Antigua was closed. In the past few weeks several cars have been washed over the cliff due to the heavy rains and it sounded like that may have been the case again today. 
The rout that we took home is usually a much better road but today it even had a lot of mud slides that were threading it's closer.~~Dick
As much as I love to give Dick a hard time about his Guatemalan driving habits, I was sure glad he knew what he was doing on this drive. Think I only let out one "whoop" on this trip, and that wasn't due to his driving, but to the bus coming at us in our lane. Is traveling on the highway in Guatemala dangerous? Yes. But, if I were to stay home and "safe" out of fear, what kind of a life would that be? I stand on the fact that there is no safer place to be than in the center of the will of God.
We got back home in time to avoid the worst of the landslides and flooding. Both Antigua and Chimaltenango (where Dick lives) are faring pretty well, but the highways are still a mess. The road to Guatemala City only reopened yesterday [Sunday] afternoon, and in many areas is only one lane. There have been many people killed in landslides once again, though no accurate numbers are yet available. This bus and its passengers were trapped on the road outside Chimaltenango. A subsequent mudslide buried many of the relief workers. This is all too common here. Please pray for the survivors, and the families of those who died trying to rescue others.
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