Rainy Days, Rainy Nights

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Crrack!  Rumble, rumble.  I snuggle under the covers a little more and tuck my pillow a little tighter under my head.  With all my drapes open in my hotel room, I have a 180 degree view of Jakarta.  Indah!  All the pretty lights of down town softened by rain and heightened into an eerie state of electric beauty when the lightening strikes.

It's that time of year when the monsoons grace the shores of Indonesia.  It rains at least once or twice a day, sometimes more, for several months.  It cleans the air and eases the daily onslaught of mosquitos that greet me each morning on the project.  You know the rain is going to start when the sunlight dims, the winds pick up and the air is electrified.  It is the coolest feeling to see the hair on your arms raise when the lightening begins to strike.  :)

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I think Indonesia is stifling and hot and the monsoons really cool things down.  Of course, I'm a girl from the Northern Tundra in the United States where temperatures can go as low as -50 degrees fahrenheit.  

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The Archipelago of Indonesia is cut in half by the equator and this tends to attract the monsoons.  Rivers swell, homes are demolished and streets flood.  Every estate or large home has a drainage ditch around its walls and the city of Jakarta just installed better drainage along the avenue of Surdiman; all essential in managing the short but heavy storms.

Snuggling in
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I like the weather when it is happening.  Having grown up in Minnesota, I guess you could say I am a bad weather junky.  whenever there is a sever storm (and there's a lot of it), people band together and help each other.  There are services providing staples for "shut-ins" or the elderly, who cannot get to a grocer, guys helping girls get their cars out of snowbanks and kids earning extra money by shoveling snow for their neighbors.  It's great to have the feeling of safety within your home while mother nature rages outside.  Be it a snow storm, sleet, wind or rain, for me, it's a time to curl up with a good book, hot cup of tea or a glass of wine and a movie.

If you are interested in the weather of Indonesia, I recommend you go to this website for more. .Indonesian Weather I'm not sure why they say Indonesia is not hot.  I've been here almost 6 months and I know there have been plenty of days where the temp was above 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

Well, I think it's time to make some tea and watch a movie.  :)  ahhhhhhh....now, if I just had a handsome man (like George Clooney) to snuggle with, life would be perrrrrrfect.  :)