Big rains in La Manzanilla, Jalisco, Mexico transformed former streets into waterless riverbeds. The practice of making streets over arroyos makes this a yearly problem.
When I arrived mid-November, big storms had brought tons of stones to cover the beach in La Manzanilla. Bulldozers worked for days to clear the stones and move them back into the ocean, which made for tricky stepping for swimmers trying to get beyond the surf line.
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lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
The moron who built our house did the same thing with our driveway. Here, it’s called a “seasonal stream.” Every year, our driveway goes seasonal. Redirecting the water involves trenches, drains, sumps, pumps … and luck. Maybe the guy who built our house learned his craft in Mexico?
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Loved this one!
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So very true a craft overly done down mexico way never getin the way
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In Tijuana a major thoroughfare runs along the Tijuana River, separated by a retaining wall that (huge surprise) crumbles from the bottom. One Thanksgiving we decided to go to Ensenada and of course there was a deluge in TJ. That whole day was a disaster and a laugh riot combined, but on that road, the river had flooded and came through the cracks under the doors of our car and we ran over a rock, a big rock. Mexico. When it rains, get high…
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