97/98 elñino floods in Nairobi nealy killed me. Hapo '97, long before @MaithyaVilivu was born, I used to pick my son from school pale James Gichuru... every evening. So I would leave town at 4pm, daily, to lavington. I lived in Riruta, back then a village. Around 3rd term, it had been raining nearly every afternoon and usual in Nirobi, rains would trigger endless jams. That Thursday around 1pm, I noticed darker, more serious clouds gathering fast. After lunch, I sat at my 'apple Mac' station for a minute halafu nikaskia kimvua kikubwa kikianza. Memories of bad Nairobi jams made me to drop everything on my small desk, and left. At University Way, jam ikaanza. I decided to use Mamlaka/Aboretum Rds. Gridlock ilianza aboretum rd., and it was now raining very heavily. Bear in mind there were no mobile phones then. I left town at 2.30pm, darkness ilinikuta ile Shell ya aboretum chini ya state house. By 7.30pm it was flooding. I was driving a very old Mazda😓 hata wipers hazikua zinawork ( like Johnson's Nairobi). By now, hapo Kileleshwa, it was a lake totally flooded. At one time in the grindlock, around 11pm, my old mazda started floating on the flood waters. Halafu every driver had lost it. Everyone for themselves. Mkigongana, hakuna kushuka. Unasonga. That day, its like satan had visited ilovi. 11.30pm, deep in floods, carburetor ya ka mazda ikaingia manji. Mimi nani, nikashuka. Some 'thugs' wa ungwaro walikua wamefika hapo kileleswa. They demanded 100bob (now 2k) kukasukuma kando. I removed and wiped the carburetor cap dry. Two coughs, mafuta zikaisha! Mind you it is still raining. '97 there were no bodas. So I sent one of the 'thugs' to go all the way to Kenol, 'Benard' with sh. 200 and a jerry can to buy me petrol. Thirty minutes later, the good guy brought the fuel, ka mazda kakakubali. I left behind 100s of cars that had drunk the water and stalled. By 1.30pm, jam ilikua ime ease kiasi. Nilifika lavington shule past 2.00am. 70% of kids had not been picked. Teachers had kept them well and warm. On my way home, I now used Kangemi/Uthiru. Nilifika homepast 2.30am. That same evening, then President Moi was caught up in the same jam, from JKIA, at Uhuru Highway. His guards nearly shot stalled motorists ati wasonge. Ikashindikana.They had to walk Moi in gumboots, to Intercon where he prolly ate and slept. Nyinyi mlikua wapi 97?