early, around 7 am, to go out and do ministry in a town about an hour
away up on the mountainside. When we arrived back around 4 pm, the
entire town was under three to four feet of water–and it hadn’t even
been raining in the valley! All the rain washed down from the mountains
into the valley, so the town flooded, as it was an open and level plain
with lots of rice paddy-water to begin with.