well, here i am in kenya.

Okay, it’s enough rain now. We’ve all got enough, and some parts of Kenya have much too much. No flooding around Nairobi and Central Province, but bad floods and subsequent crocodile and drowning deaths in Coast Province. It’s discouraging to transition from a drought to floods.

(wrote this a week ago. things have calmed down generally, and we're hoping this is the end of the short rains. Kenya's meteorologists say it might rain to the new year, so let's all hope that they are not very good at predicting...)