Monday Monday

Today we traveled to Radio Lumiere as planned to begin work on the Battery and Inverter system. Traffic was light to non-existent, and we found out that the streets in the city were mostly blocked and that the police were on strike dues to their desire for justice for losing three of their colleagues in the last few weeks. This type of stoppage has crippled the city and schools were closed and there were no deliveries of any kind. We were expecting delivery of our new batteries for the radio station and that has not materialized. We are hopeful that Tuesday the unrest might be less and that we might receive the needed equipment. We did not feel threatened as we traveled to the station nor did we feel any danger upon returning to the guest house, so we are thankful to the Lord for this protection. We are hopeful for the same tomorrow. We did quite a bit of preliminary work today and should have the jumper cables for connecting the battery bank completed and ready to use by noon tomorrow. If batteries show up we will begin installation. The new shelving for the batteries is complete and painted and ready to be moved into the room when the old batteries are taken out. We will be taking the existing batteries and inverters out of service in the morning and so it would be nice to have the new ones as soon as possible. Art sliced his finger with his utility knife this morning and we are glad for the first aid kits we brought along. We were able to get him fixed up pretty well with what we had. Welcome to working with tools...

The kitchen crew at the radio station was very much afraid about the unrest in the city and treated us to a very early lunch, so that they could all go home. We will see if they come back tomorrow… I has rained most of the day and a steady rain like this is somewhat unusual as we hear that most rains are torrential downpours that come and go quickly. The city is getting a lot of its trash flushed down the drains…I hear that northern PA was under a snow watch for up to 24” of snow! Seems late in the year for that. Hope you are all doing OK. No pictures again but I will make a point of it tomorrow at the station. (if we get there). I am actually posting this Tuesday morning as Internet was so slow last night I could not get on it. As I sit here I can periodically hear a turkey gobbling among all of the roosters crowing closer by. /That plus the car horns make up the ambient .noise in this very large city