Library coffee shop and super heavy rain

Today we decided to spice things up and work from another place that was recommended to us. A coffee shop on the top floor of the Kigali Public Library. They had good drinks and snacks there, which we gladly ordered while we were working there. For lunch, Anne would head back to IH for a lunch meeting, while I decided to stay at the library place, as it mattered less to me where specifically I'd be working from.

A bit before lunch the blue sky suddenly turned gray, and there were super strong gusts of wind. I recommended Anne to consider leaving immediately so she would make it to her lunch meeting at IH in the dry, following which she immediately packed up and left. Well... Less than five minutes after she had left for her 8min journey the flood gates opened up with a gigantic downpour. The coffee shop on the top floor where I was got flooded, as the rain was pushing in through the windows, and a rainwater pipe burst in a wall and suddenly the wall became a fountain and flooded our spot from the inside.

Regarding Anne, it turned out that the 8min trip turned into 45min, she got drenched, the moto ran out of gas, she ran out of battery on her phone, they got lost more than once without GPS because her driver didn't know the way, and she arrived way too late for her lunch meeting. But it all turned out alright 😊Read more