Le seul manquer de chose était Noé Arc

2 Weeks ago we woke up to what sounded like a wonderful rain outside of our house. My first thought was, "yay, no french today!" But the rain never stopped....

Within hours the roads were flooded...

This is the canal after the rains

This is what all of the roads and looked like during the flood.

And this is the canal during the flood.

The only words Burkina could find to describe this natural disaster was "Le seul manquer de chose était Noé Arc." (The only thing missing is Noah's Ark) It was a time that Burkina never expected to see, never dreamed possible, leaving 150,000 without homes, packed in shelters with all they over worked to own completely gone.....