by Eric Jackson, largely from other media
Something was different to holiday travelers this year. The capitalinos who headed to Las Tablas for the 1000 Pollera Parade on November 6 and decided to brave the night-time traffic coming back lucked out. Some of them noticed how Cocle's Rio Grande was getting up to the top of its banks. But those driving west the next morning from the Azuero Peninsula, or from Veraguas, Chiriqui or Bocas del Toro, faced a several-hour wait and monumental traffic jam. In the wake of six straight days of rain the river overflowed its banks late at night, and by the next morning was flowing over the Pan-American Highway. It was the first time anyone remembered that river doing that. The water wasn't all that deep, so buses and large trucks were allowed to proceed, but smaller vehicles had to wait until the waters subsided.
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