Waterbeds III: the pics
Apologies for the quality of the photos, but given the circumstances they were the best I could do. Next photos will be back to my usual high standards ;-D
This part of the hotel had just been renovated. The force and volume of the rain was such that water seeped through the window frames (?) and poured down the walls inside, causing the paint to bubble horribly.
A touch of Barton Fink and the peeling walls.
We laid the sodden books and games out in the corridor to dry out, then later tried blowdrying the pages, but they were just one big pulpy moosh.
By dawn the water had started receding and the pool area began to resurface.
Our hotel room was at the same level.
December 13th, 2005 at 1:43 am
Aargh.
The books! The books!
(The horror! the horror!)
December 16th, 2005 at 12:38 pm
Crazy. I can’t beleive it because we’re so far away from it all.. but you’re so brave to find the humour in all this and I love your posts. I hope the flooding stops and things get a bit easier
December 19th, 2005 at 7:44 am
The loss of my children’s books would have my eyes leaking enough to cause another rise in water levels. Poor you. *tut* Hope you guys feel better soon.
January 25th, 2006 at 4:07 am
[…] After most of the children’s books drowned in the hotel flood, we bought some new ones in a local bookshop. One of the books was an alphabet colouring book. The first page had a blob outline and the text, A is for ackee. We had no idea what it was, nor what colour it should be. […]