Thursday, September 4, 2008

Another Peru entry....

26) “Everyone who keeps on hearing these messages of mine and never puts them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27) The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and battered that house, and it collapsed, and its collapse was total.”

When Derrick & Chuck were telling me about the houses and the landscape in Peru, this verse immediately came to mind; as with the guys, also. Millions of people in Peru have built their houses on sand. Not only have they built their houses, the houses are made from cardboard & pallets. There is a lot of pollution there and it hardly rains. It's like a double-edged sword. If it were to rain, the pollution would be helped and it would wash some of that crap away. But if it rains, it would wash all of the houses away and there would be major mud slides. The following pictures are to show what Derrick, Chuck & the rest of the guys saw through out all of their journey.




Houses built on a mountain of dirt & sand.



A desert of houses.



More houses. They are literally stacked on top of each other.



This is a typical taxi there. I put this picture in to show the pollution. It looks like it's overcast, but that is just the pollution.



Again, a field of houses on sand. It's also a good picture of the smog & pollution. Let's see the environmentalists try to deal with this one...it would be tough.

2 comments:

Valarie Lea said...

That is just awful, while the colors of the houses in the first picture are pretty, but I cannot imagine what would happen if it did rain. We are truly blessed.

Elizabeth said...

Hey Val!

What is your email address?

 
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