LAGOS AND THE FLOODS.......

Tks June for the article from Debbie Williams on Lagos.......Yes life in Lagos is indeed a paradox......
So another week in paradise...I had heard of flooding in Lagos but loh and behold.....this week I had a brush with the floods...At about 5:00am.......serious thunderstorms and lightning flashes...somehow the Lagos thunder storms sound closer than back home?You feel like the house is shaking and the lighting is like these series of flashes in bright white light......no it`s not the Oscars....must admit a bit scary when you think that anything can happen in Naija including being struck by lightning....so the rain begun coming down hard...and I knew Park view Estate was flooded...so decided to leave by 8:00am...wesmake!Came back to house after 5min....
10:00am..my driver gets impatient and decides ok...he saw some cars drive by so assumed all is well.......so there we were attempting to cross the murky waters in our Honda Civic.....I now understand why Nigerians also drive big 4 wheel cars which are all known as "jeeps".......lol!no matter the model......2min of driving through the water and the car starts flooding..I started cursing at my driver...why oh why did I listen to him?water was gashing in fast and I started to panic..so not wanting to ruin my shoes.......my legs were soon in the air!and when the car begun moving with the current of the water...I started screaming and panicked......driver still calm.......all of a sudden..the car went off!I knew it.......sometimes you really wake up and just make the wrong decisions......
So my driver Hussein had to push the car through the water and in serious rain..I felt bad but was wondering if God was punishing him for not listening to "madam" or "mar" as it is in Naija.....made it to the Parkview gate and now how to get to work......almost everyone was stuck in water ,at home or their car too was flooded...this is now 11:00am.....car is off....it is raining.....and ???????frustration.....after trying all manners of SOS calls...hitch hiked back to my house in a "jeep"...yes I flagged down some man and left Hussein to deal with the floods and the dead Honda.........
I made it to office at 2:00pm after getting a "jeep" to drive through the water with a smaller vehicle of my colleague in tow.i.e. clear the way.......hmmmmmm
This week also said bye to my old boss a.k.a "James Bond" and welcomed new one.......a.ka."SKY".as I said....be careful how you deal with people and what you do out there..you never know who could be your next boss.....it is indeed a small world