Epic flooding caused everybody in Steung Kach to lose a little land today, well at least those with river adjacent land.
Some Tense Moments 🌊
It rains a a lot more here than in the rest of cambodia, but the last week has completely saturated the soil in this valley. Today there was a three or four hour period where it seemed the heavens completely opened the tap. I sensed the river was going to cause some serious erosion and possibly some collapses, so I went down to check out our hammock huts.
Uh-Oh! 🤯
I discovered a piece of our land had moved about a meter downhill, and another piece of land about the size of a small had already collapsed and slid towards the river. I showed my wife the damage, then talked about the need to disassemble the huts within the next week to prevent any potential future losses as the rain season picks up.
Bathroom Break 🐸
AFter our little chat, we walked back up the hill where I found Monkey-B freaking out over a yellow frog on the bathroom door. She insisted I investigate, and I found this cute little guy sound asleep on the door, perhaps exhausted from escaping the torrential rains.
Hammock Huts Aren't Seaworthy 🛥️
About 30 minutes after I left the hammocks huts I began hearing what I thought were lightning strikes. I went to the cabin to get a better view of the river, and I saw massive trees and timbers flowing down the river at breakneck speed, smashing into boulders and breaking into smaller pieces. I noticed the river had climbed 2 meters in the 30 minutes that had passed since my wife and I were last in the hammock hut.
I walked to edge of the cliff hillside and noticed a raging torrent flowing through what is normal the tent-pitching area of the second hut, and the first hut barely out of the water. In the blink of an eye our huts could've gone into the river and became the worst whitewater canoes ever.
Fingers Crossed 🤞
After marveling at the power of nature, I realized my rock piling erosion prevention project is gonna have to move into doubletime very soon. I was stressed enough by imagining the worst possible scenario, so I decided to just let the day become Hive content.
In the mornign I will survey the damage and try to transplant some bamboo to the affected areas of land loss. We may have to use sandbags to get through this year's rainy season, but for now it looks like a solvable problem. From the looks of things though, it appears everyone will wake up tomorrow with a chunk of land missing from the back of their property.
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