Last Friday hurricane Erika past the north coast of the Dominican Republic.
Although hurricanes cause flooding every year, this time everybody was impatiently waiting for the rain.
In the past five months there was no rain throughout the Dominican Republic.
The fields were dry and death threatened livestock due to lack of food.
Forest fires broke out, including in the area of Sosúa.
The lack of rain was so bad that even rivers ran dry and as a consequence also the water reservoirs.
The supply of water was also in jeopardy because of the low level of groundwater.
Many hotels and private homes had to be provided of water by means of water trucks.
But Friday Hurricane Erika came by and did bring rain but not the expected quantities.
Only days before, Mayor Ilana Neumann had commissioned to clean the riverbed of river Sosúa with heavy equipment of obstacles.
Finally rain!
She wanted to prevent that the expected heavy rains would burst its banks and would damage the adjacent cottages.
As a precaution, the mayor had also ordered schools to give the students this Friday a day off.
Usually everybody is afraid of the water, this time they were all waiting for it, but the quantity was a bit dissapointing.
