Electricity

Isn't electricity wonderful! We found out just how wonderful it was when we got it cut yesterday. We haven't even been in Honduras for a month and we got our electricity cut yesterday because the old tennents of our house did not pay their bill and neither did the landlord during the time the house was unoccupied. There is a new rule that when someone doesn't pay for their electricity for two months they cut the service. When you move into a rented house in Honduras all of your utility bills will be in the landlord's name. This is because it can take months to get a new account with electricity, phone, or water. If the landlord keeps the accounts in thier name then the new tennants can move in without problems.

As we were getting in the car yesterday to go to church someone rang our doorbell and gave us a slip saying that they were cutting our electricity because our bill had not been paid for two months. It said that when we paid the bill they would reconnect us. We immediately called our landlord and he told us that they were sending someone to the bank right away to pay it. So we went on to church. We called him several times and finally after the banks had closed and there was nothing we could do about it, he told us that they were in Guaymaca and there are no banks there.

This morning, we got an electrician that was building a house nearby to hook our electricity up for us. This will cost us a fine, but the landlord said that he would pay it.

This afternoon we have to go by the water and phone companies to make sure they don't cut those services too.