SLUUURP...

Feb26th
Sunday morning: we were able to sleep in a bit: it was slightly cooler during the night. Margreet has been sleeping much better the last two nights.  Friday afternoon a Harmatan started to blow and it is indeed incredible how much fine dust finds its way into the house!

Coffee table

Saturday morning we cleaned off all the surfaces and mopped the floors: the next morning everything was covered with a nice layer of dust again and that with the windows and curtains closed (as much as possible)!

The Air France flight from Paris was canceled along with other flights, although Ethiopian Air did land. The thinking here is that AF found it a good excuse not to have to fly in with half a planeload.

Four of the swamp coolers will be operational as soon as we can find replacement floats for two of the units. Next week we hope to tackle the other ones.

A Chadian electrician came on Saturday and Henk and David (the Chadian center manager) helped him for the next five hours revamping the electrical panel.

David

There is a lot of ‘stuff’ there as it handles the switch over gear for two generators and the three phase incoming city electricity. The very last item to be installed was a timed relay that allows the sequential turning on of power to the different apartment blocks and offices when switching over to the ‘small’ generator; it was purchased locally for almost 200 dollars and isn’t working…..very frustrating and time consuming to trace the problem. We bypassed it and all seemed to work well, except one house received 380V and not the normal 240V (all due to a loose ground wire)! Thankfully it is on its own circuit and no damage was done.

Two guards watching were amused that Henk would help wash the net!