On Nias they talk about the wet season starting sometime in September and lasting until the end of the year. It would appear that, weather-wise, things are happening a little early in 2009. At the start of last week we didn’t actually make it to Moro’o because of some flash flooding. On Wednesday we made it to site and surveyed the situation:
1. We were working in an area between two bridges called Humene and Katawaena (see photo). Both bridges were underwater on Wednesday. Work has now stopped in this area.

2. We can no longer transport stone beyond Humene Bridge so we are transport material as far as we can(to Ombolata) and stockpiling (which is very inefficient).
3. We are damagaing the road as we go. It is designed for motorbikes and the odd car so struggles with out 16 vehicles doing 10 trips per day in torrential rain especially when things like this happen (see video).

For the project as a whole it is likely we’ll lose at least a week. The prospect of not completing the road is well and truly on the agenda. We are now considering scenarios of how best to manage this situation (unless we come up with something remarkable in the meantime).