As the previous years, our factory in Palembang shutdown for a week because all the Muslim workers would not work during this festive period (despite being offered extra cash for compensation).
It was a good experience to see how Palembang is like during Lebaran but it was also a lonely one because nobody is around. The place looks deserted at 8am when I drove to the factory. I had to drop by at the factory everyday to check on security, potential roof leakages, roofing sheets flyimg off & flooding (and some other un-anticipated events that might have occurred).
Normally this period of time is the start of the drought period for Palembang, but instead it poured since the evening on the eve of Hari Raya until the next afternoon.
The rain was so heavy that all the caterpillars came out from the soil (my son loves to cut them up!). They looked pretty eerie when they all come out together!
I had to go into the partially flooded warehouse to push the accumulated rain water out (with the help of one security guard) and applied saw dust to absorb the water.
The plus side to the heavy downpour (besides the exercise that I did in the warehouse with the spade) is my plants got plenty of water and 3 more ladies fingers (okras) grew!
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