A Beautiful Zambian Day turned hazardous

I never thought I would see it in Zambia.  Although we had been having big lightening storms in the late afternoon for a couple of days, the storm that blew through yesterday was quite something.  Heavy downpours, pea size hail and so much wind!   The roof on the public toilets by the road completely blew off, metal, wood and everything.  It blew off and hit one of our electrical poles, knocking it down so we don't have electricity at the market.  However,  Mr. Tembo our electrician, said that if the pole hadn't been there it would have taken out the market.  Our front yard became a pond again and in low lying areas there was still a lot of water this morning.  Of course, since no one expects rain now, a lot of stuff that was left out got wet.  I don't think any of those things were damaged, though.  Apparently the meterologists say we could have rain until Friday.  Today has been beautiful with blue skies.