Spent a week in Mulge yesterday. Toured the schools hit by flooding.

The government has the militaria cleaning the schools, headcount is a military secret but inofficial estimate (which I judge reliable by my counts) are 100 personnel. Way to go Fox!!! Also the military or another agency spread lime in various places to kill infections sources & mosquitos.

I have photos, which we will post to the Scholarship website as soon as possible.

CECYTE, the high school, had ~5-6 feet. All perishable contents are destroyed wall to wall, but the buildings are all intact due to substantial construction (which is true of all 3 schools hit).
Perishable = library contents with the exception of a few volumes not killed by mud, all computers including administration, supplies, etc. Easier to list is what's left: student desks are of substantial construction & survived, library shelves are metal & OK. Administration filing cabinets are metal & OK. School trophies were lovingly salvaged & cleaned. Chem/Phisics lab stools and lab tables were also substantial and survived, along w/a durable periodic chart on the wall. Imagine school rooms with desks, occasional white boards, and you have the idea; nothing else on the walls, no shelves of books or materials pertinent to subject matters.

Primaria School next to CECYTE: Ditto water level, ditto condition, except no library survival. This is a small school w/only 3 rooms covering grades 1-6 (FYI- complusory school attendance in Mexico runs thru grade 6). 4 walls & desks.

Internado Boarding school for kids from outlying ranchos: This school has 70 kids, grades kindergarten to 6th; kids were home for the weekend, thank God. They sleep in bunk beds. Some clothing had been bagged up & sequestered by the militarios. Lower mattresses were tossed, uppers stacked out of the way for cleaning of rooms. They don't have beds for 70 kids, so some double bunk anyway. The Internado is on slightly higher ground, so only 42-48" water. But as a practical matter, that doesn't mean much. Otherwise classrooms are bare except for desks. All contents within reach of the flood, including computers, are heading for the landfill.

After I've posted what I know about town on other threads, we can discuss what to do & how.

Mike, have sent emails to Leon. If our Airstream in Lot #16 is there (as reported) and habitable, we would donate the trailer to a needy family or someone ...just need feedback as to whether it can be salvaged..you never know. Those things were pretty air tight...There is a generator in front storage, or was. We only want to keep fishing gear in block bldg and kayaks, if all is intact. Keep in touch...also willing to donate a new computer to the ranchers school...LOU MONK (In Abu Dhabi, UAE)

D&L,
I just posted lengthy discussion on overall status in Mulege incl. trailer observations. I'll start an Oasis Observations thread and we can continue that there.

The Internado could most desperately use more bunk beds and mattresses to augment their shortage and losses respectively rather than a computer. If I got the story straight, the administration computer is the only one in the school, and their student records are replicated in LaPaz. They may get a new one from the govenment; I couldn't ascertain that in our brief visit.

The story I got on replacement text books was that there would not be any. I find that somewhat hard to beleive (& of course my espanol is muy malo). So we will need to check on these kind of issues. If you want to donate a bed or a mattress, the Student Scholarship Program can accept the donation & we will arrange for purchases in LaPaz and delivery to the school. We will be looking into other needs and as to when/how the government will/won't meet those and how we can help.