Surveying the damage of last week. Three days and nights of torrential downpours were taking its toll on us. The news reports from neighbors informed us that we were the recipients of 2 or 3 different tropical storms and the end of our personal deluge was not yet in sight. The local rivers were swollen and the muddy embankments had collapsed into the roads in some areas. Nevertheless, we had to make the 3 hour journey to San José over the “Mountain of Death” (and that’s its