གཟུགས་པོ་བདེ་ཐང་། (good health) from what is left of my beloved Pemakochung monastery! It appears as…
The hailstorm came and went, and just like a venomous snake it left puncture wounds which in fact hide…
I awoke shivering from the cold in the middle of the night. The hailstorm had started the previous evening and was beginning to calm down. Why was my cave so cold? The remains of my fire should be keeping me warm. It had been a restless night, with the sounds of crashing hail, loud…
I awoke this morning having had my worst night of sleep so far in this village. I sat upright on my bed, if you could call it that, and as my feet touched the ground I felt frigidly cold water at the base of my feet. Surprised, I quickly raised my feet back…
My neighbour was right; the hailstorm did hit our village, and came with big amounts of rain that washed out the fields and many of the houses were damaged. The worst part was that it damaged the only bridge that came into our village. Many of the builders and other villagers spent much of their…
The hailstorm arrived and in a flash everything from houses to crop fields were all destroyed. Although I have…
After the Storm
The rumours of a hail storm turned out to not be rumours. A dreadful hailstorm hit with tremendous force last night. The winds were aggressive and intense, the abundance of rain pounded hard in every which way, and massive amounts of hail the size of grapefruit smashed into anything in its path. It was far…
The hailstorm hit our village just as badly as people were speculating and most of our village is severely destroyed. The bridge was completely wiped out, which is our only access point to coming in and our of our town. This poses a huge problem for our community and…
The Wake of Terror
The night air chilled my spine and the harsh winds caused our home to shudder endlessly. Is it possible that the idle gossip of the village rang with truth and I was just too blind to see it. I feel utterly useless and my mother has withdrawn further into herself as I struggle to keep both of us warm in…
The rumours that had been circulating finally manifested last night. The hailstorm that struck was one of the worst that our village has…