We had quite the exciting night this past Friday.
For those of you who have lived under a tin roof, you know how loud everything sounds that hits the roof....cats, rain, balls, etc. Trying to have a conversation during a downpour is literally impossible due to the sheer noise.
About 2 am this past Friday, I heard a few thuds on the roof. Sleepily, I thought it was the neighborhood cats fighting across the roofs again. But as the thuds continued, I realized that the cats were either extremely fat, or the noise was created by men. With a start I sat up and listened closer. Then there was shouting and more noise that sounded like lots of people running across our roof, back and forth between our bedroom and the boys. I woke Steve up and he listened as well. Were they teenagers having a party above us? Suddenly flashlights shone above, and more shouting. What was going on, we wondered? We turned the outside light on and continued to listen to all the shouting. I went out to the front door and opened it up to find most of our neighbors, along with several policemen and security guards, out in the street in front of our house.
The scary part is that our bedroom and the boys' bedroom opens up to our little patio (or garden), and we, as well as the police, thought that the teens had jumped off our roof into our patio. From the picture above, you can see the boys' bedroom door on the left, and the patio with the back wall of the house. The teens and police were running on the roof at the left. Our bedroom door is directly to the left of where the picture is taken.
So here is what happened: 3 teenagers were trying to break into one of the houses, either ours or a neighbors, and the night security guard spotted him and gave chase, along with a number of police officers. 1 of the teens feel through our neighbors roof, while the other 2 got away. The police actually shot at the kids...the neighbor showed us the holes in his roof where they shot!
Needless to say, we didn't get much sleep the rest of the night. Zachariah woke up as well, although Nathaniel slept right through it all.
We are glad that we have, almost without fail, locked both of our bedroom doors at night, and have bars on the windows (like all good nicaraguan homes).
We praise God for His protection!
3 comments:
Sorry to hear about the unwanted excitement, but are glad God kept you safe.
Not a fun way to be awakened. I am thankfule for the Lord's protection over your family.
Maria
Wow Colleen! When we lived in Costa Rica we sat up at night to the same thing, something heavy clomping around on our tin roof. We and our neighbors headed out armed with a plunger and a bat. Turned out that it actually was a cat ; ).
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