Arica gets an average of 1/2 a millimeter of precipitation a year, and this year has gotten a big 3.4 mm. In the Tarapacá region, there are almost 3,500 people displaced by flooding, of all things. Apparently it doesn’t take much to wreck the roads in a region where some spots haven’t felt a raindrop in 20 million years.
Setty's notebook 
The Atacama must be one of the most beautiful high deserts to be found anywhere. Taking a train across the Andes is one way of seeing them.
A Santiaguina friend of mine posted on FB something along the lines of: in Iquiqueño: The sky is falling, it’s raining, we’re going to drown! In Santiaguino: It’s drizzling.
Not to make light of people displaced by floods or anything. Sweet stuff. I’ll be back.
I wonder what old seeds might germinate?