Not In Kansas Anymore, Toto!

Okay, we woke up this morning with steel grey skies and a light drizzle. No biggie... no danger, but apparently, there has been a cyclone brewing just off the coast of Chennai that was spewing tropical air toward us that might prevent our shooting outdoor video footage if it didn't let up. But we set out anyway toward a series of three villages near the city of Vellavedu in the hopes of doing some ground survey and recon for community development initiatives, and figured we would take our chances with the weather.

We got to the first village (which i will talk about more after this post) and did just fine for about the first 3 hours, but then the rain started coming.... and coming... and coming. We managed to finish up there, and moved to dryer spots for lunch, and then decided to wait till the rain let up before we tried village #2. It's now 7 pm, and still coming down forcefully at intermittent junctures, so we're going to change plans tomorrow and head to Kalavai a day earlier, with a goal of stopping back by Vellavedu on the way back to Chennai before we head to Cambodia. You can pray that we don't get rained out there too, particularly as filming in muddy slush is no more fun for Gene Ort than it is for me to talk in it. More later!