Fumigation

Because it is rainy season, there is, as you might guess, a build-up of water in low-lying areas and certain areas just become saturated. This leads to the breeding of mosquitoes. There are several different types of mosquitoes in this area, including one type that carries the Dengue virus. We've been extra careful recently with bug spray and keeping the doors closed. Matt and Ronny have been working on building screen doors for both our front and back doors. There have been many cases of the virus in the area and surrounding areas, with one area near here closing school and business in an effort to keep people out because it had spread so rapidly.

Also, the city has been spraying the area to kill existing mosquitoes as well as possibly prevent eggs from hatching.

Today, a team of men came through our neighborhood looking somewhat like something out of the Ghost Buster movie and carrying a large sprayer that looked very much like what Bill Murray's character carried in the movie.

They wore gas masks and were spraying all the areas near the road, trees, bushes, anywhere where there was standing water. If you left your gate opened, they would come into your yard and spray into your home.

So, we gathered the dogs and waited for him to come our way. We walked over to our neighbors as he came and sprayed this thick cloud of mosquito poison into our home...sounds really safe, huh?

Clouds rolled out of the house for minutes after he was gone. Matt grabbed the camera and took a few pictures for you to see. I wish we had one of the guy doing the spraying...it was sure s sight! The cloud has cleared some when he took these, so if you can imagine it about 5 times thicker...you literally could not see through it!