Saturday morning, we headed out again hoping to get out this time. It had not rained much the night before, so we thought we most likely could. The trip down to the point we stopped friday was uneventful, and we found the water had went down some more making us much more comfortable going across. We removed a few large rocks and got across without trouble.
As we moved on, we found that was not the only spot that was gone! This area was gardens, bannana groves, before the hurricane! The rest of the guys walked across while I made my way across on the four wheeler.
This is the direction the water came. Must have been quite the wall of water to do what it did!!!
A little way down, we came on this!!!
This bridge,you can only see the side rail, was over a small water way the size of a small stream. Now, as you see, it is more like a river bed!!!! Thankfully the bridge is still there, but most of the repair work is going to be done by hand, a pick, shovel, and a lot of hand work!!!
We arrived in Ti Guave, got our vehicle, and headed home. We knew that there was a bridge out not to far from home. Folks were saying the water was down enough that we could walk through. We talked with some folks from Blue Ridge Mission and they allowed us to park the vehicle in their compound, and take us to the washout to walk across.
We found it crossable!!! PTL!!!
This bridge, what you can see, bridged a small stream also! Now, it`s a river!!!
For now they will cut the banks down and we will drive through the river to get to Port au Prince.
Hopefully the fact that it is an international road, and main truck route between Haiti and
Dominican Republic, they will get the bridge up fast, but you can`t do that over night.
