It is September 3, 2006, the “Day of the Frogs.”

I am standing in the unfinished French doors of the dining room of our casita in Southern Baja looking out at the flooded arroyo. I was drawn here by a sound – an odd droning sound, as though someone in this small and isolated Gringo neighborhood had turned on a massive, pulsing generator. That would not be unusual, since we are well off the power grid.

 

 

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Hurricane John passed through in the night. It may have passed over on the cape rather than through this area on the Pacific coast. I don’t know yet what its true path was because there is no phone or internet connection. I am stranded as the result of washed-out roads. All I know is what I heard in the night – howling winds and torrents of rain that left behind lakes in the dry arroyos, ruts and cave-ins in the already primitive network of dirt roads.

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