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Finally sunny this afternoon

Finally sunny this afternoon and the GMU missionaries from Makuma are getting to go home. They are going home to a station without electricity though. It's been two and a half years since they had a working hydroelectric plant there. It was all ready to run four months ago, but there was a problem at the last minute with an unexplained 'banging' that shook the whole structure when they tried to start things up. Then the next day Jim Hedlund left on furlough. The Holmes stayed behind, but because of problems with generators, even the new one that we flew out last month, they've had no reliable electricity. Only ran a small generator an hour or so a day, just long enough to pick up some e-mail during the day. That meant no fridge either. Anyway, while Jim was gone they found a log that was stuck in the hydro system. Hopefully they will find that when they remove that log that it was the banging they heard several months ago.