Watching water rush down the street is bad when you are safe and warm in a vehicle, it's even worse when you are kicked out of said vehicle to fend for yourself because the taxi driver is thinking about himself and his car not being swept away. Here is some knowledge from my experience which I'd like to impart onto you about how to get through such a situation.
1. Do choose a taxi driver who will
take you to your destination instead of kicking you out.
2. Do take pictures because once you
are safe and dry you wont believe the hell you went to to get to your
destination. Please do not take the pics while shin deep in water as it
drizzles. No need to destroy your phone during the wretched adventure.
3. Do change out of your shoes into
flip flops.
4. Do wait under a shelter while it
is raining even though said rain doesn't look like enough to create the mess
you are currently taking pictures of.
5. Once the rain has let up and the
flood waters SEEM to be receding (which is a lie) always FOLLOW THE PEOPLE
otherwise the flip flops you so carefully put on to save your shoes will float
away when you accidentally step in water that reaches above your knees.
6. Do remove your other flip flop and
watch it float away so that someone can find a matching pair and be happy.
7. DO get accustomed to walking
barefoot on the gravel and be careful.
8. DO NOT pay attention to the things
floating past you and clinging to your feet and ankles.
9. DO step carefully (following the
people and asking questions such as "Is there a gutter here?" Because
falling into a gutter would make the experience even more special).
10. DO NOT think about what your bare
feet are stepping on or what the flood waters have swept away.
11. DO cuss out the government of
Ghana for not being proactive when it comes to ensuring that flooding does not
happen in the first place.
12. DO cuss out the people of Ghana
for their damn littering ways ( this will be a constant as you try not to fall
into the nastiness you are walking through.
13. In between the cussing, DO pray
that no one gets injured during this flood.
14. Do ask what mother effin lesson
you are supposed to be learning.
15. When you reach your destination
DO buy water and rinse your feet off before putting your shoes on.
16. When you sit down in a dry
vehicle (which will take you the hell out of the formerly flooded area) DO give
thanks. If you are still cussing out the government and litter prone people of
Ghana for hours afterward, remember that you are justified.