RAIN OR SHINE the kerosene still needs to be delivered.
Category: Street scene
BORKHA-clad lady I met while wading the water West of Mohammadia Housing after a monsoon downpour.
RIDING FAMILY-STYLE
A typical scene here in Dhaka.
CHICKEN ON THE HOOF so to speak! If you want a great chicken curry here is one way to purchase it. I usually go to the market and tell them how many I want. They weigh them live charge me 110 taka/kg (72 cents/lb). Typically each chicken weighs 1.5 kg (3.3 lbs). Then they put it into a mechanical plucker, take out the innards, put everything in a bag (except the guts and feathers!) and I take it home. The one day the electricity was off so they skinned them instead of plucking the feathers.
MAN WAITING ON RICKSHAW in front of Randy’s apartment for someone to open gate so they can enter. I’m standing in knee-deep water in the middle of the street taking this photo. Hindsight tells me I should have had someone somewhere take a photo of me in the water. So it goes.
REFLECTIONS are some of the beauty that comes after the rain!
TORRENTIAL DOWNPOUR causes flooding in Dhaka on Tuesday as 11.4 inches of rain fell in six hours breaking a sixty-year-old record.
Here is my friend, Halim in front of his small room which had water in it at least a foot above the entrance. The next photo is of a cycle trying to decide whether to go through a water-logged intersection. I saw later that he backed up and due to the traffic-jam returned via the sidewalk. He did use his horn so I could get out of his way. Many rickshaws and cycles took to the sidewalks to bypass the jams. The “Daily Star” blames clogged drains and filled up canals for the waterlogging (flooding). Oh by the way, I didn’t crop the heads off of the cycle photo, they were never on the photo.
MONSOON RAINS bring flooding to Dhaka’s city streets. I was in waist deep water getting some of my photos today. Rains from 1-7 AM dropped 11.4 inches (290 mm) of rain for a 60 year record for a six hour period.
CLOWN BETEL NUT HAWKER chuga-lugging what was left of Matthias’ Diet Pepsi. He saw it in Matthias’ hand and thought he had to have it. In the second photo you see the fizz escaping. He was a clown and sure distracted people from the game. Our team lost 3-2 in this semi-final game of the tournament! 😦
CHAPATIS in the making. This fellow in the Mohammadia Housing section of Dhaka came to the tea stand I was at and wanted me to take a photo of him and his wife as she was making chapatis (flat bread). Very tasty, in fact I had some for lunch at a friends house.
SCRAMBLE to get on this Mirpur Rd bus in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The other day it happened to me, so I wrapped my right arm around the bar between the window and the door, until there was enough pushing and shoving to make for both of my feet to be on the floor.
DAL AND BHAJI (spicy lentils and vegetables and pototoes) is one of my favorite breakfasts with nan ruti!! Khub moja! or in English “very delicious” Here is some ready in bags to take home. This shop was in Mohammadia Housing here in Dhaka.
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