Haven't written for a quite a while because I've fallen out of love with Juarez's weather... The last two weeks, the skies have been almost entirely cloudy and it has either rained or snowed (3 inches one morning) every few days. Due to ice or flooding on the roads, I've been stuck at home a few days here. Though you would think that a desert would soak up rain pretty quickly, the clay soil here is very poor and the roads have no drains. So heavy rain just pools on the ground for days, and causes new potholes overnight. If you have to drive through a puddle, some of which can be one or two lanes wide, you never know if you are going to drive over trash or a hole, and how large the hole is. Last weekend, we had to rescue some neighbors who drove through a giant puddle and got two flat tires in the process. One tire was torn in two places.

The weather has been much sunnier these past few days, however, and the daily high temperatures are back up to the mid-50s (F). Let us hope that it stays that way, because who moves to Mexico for cold weather?

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