We have had many visitors in the last few days. The first was the local police department jefe who came to say hello. He was making the rounds and checking up on the community to see if everything was ok. It occured to me that he was just trying to be nosy and then I wondered if we had paid our taxes. (how quickly my mind can go to trouble) However, this guy was truly nice and asked if we had any thefts, if we felt safe, and if there was anything to report. We told him we had our pump stolen last year and recently we discovered we had some lumber missing. He took notes and thanked us for the information. And then he left....no fines, no payments, and no problems. Wow. How cool is that! I was so caught up with it all that I did not take any pictures.
Next we were visited by a crew from public health and safety. They spoke with everyone in our barrio and planned a tsunami drill for 11:00am. Weirdly, the kids were so excited. They have experienced fire drills, tornado drills, school lock-down drills, but never a tsunami drill. At 11:00am the sirens started blarring. They are located on the access road to the beach and for all the open space that surrounds us, the alarm was loud.
Emergencias! Emergencias! Emergencias!
Alarma del Tsunami! Alarma del Tsunami!
Evacua a la seguridad! Evacua a la seguridad!
We all walked away from the beach like we were told and made it to the checkpoint in under seven minutes. We were congratulated for following the rules and making it to higher ground in reasonable time. Yay!
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