Rain
Flushing Kampala

Kampala rain time. ^{[video traffic jam K'la Centre]}

Kampala rain time. 2M inhabitants, over 1.5 in slums, happy to be flushed even if you have to sit on your ramshackle roof for a while. There's quite some drain channels and pipes from colonial times but clogged. Traffic halts. This happens during normal tropical rain ^{[about serious tropical rain on the lake]}. Government fights corruption, prepares for the rigging of next elections and spends the donor country budget, so no time to solve this. I will have my air filter inlet and exhaust extended upward to do a few cm better in the Kampala rain-river crossings. Forget to keep you fuel tank water free: every other fuel station adds some water to keep making money at competitive prices. Anyway, there's always hour-size jams, with rain you just need a few hours extra. The most astonishing of the the photo left (Clock Tower Junction) is that you see only four (4!) vehicles in stead of 400. With no plans to carry cargo, getting through alive with my bike is enough of a challenge.

In rainy weeks water contains nutrition for algae, giving the harbour an thawing-ice impression. Unsuspected circles, however, have requested to report rumours that algae first came when I started swimming here.

Clean the cleaning water: I drilled tiny holes in this grey bucket. Old bed sheet is the filter. A stone in the bucket gives the weight to gently fill in 5 minutes.