Sigatoka is underwater.

As if family & friends in the Fiji Islands don't already struggle, every day, to make a decent life for themselves, they're now dealing with the 'worst floods' to hit Viti Levu in 20 years. Sigatoka town has been hardest hit and is now under 12-hour curfew. Nana's farm sits on a bend in the Sigatoka River. Sadly, very sadly, we heard earlier today that Nana's farm is underwater, as is Randhis mama's property next door.

These are the hardest working people I've ever known. In two days they've seen their homes flooded and lost at least 6 months of crops. And as the headline above reads, the worse is yet to come with a possible cyclone hitting the islands next week.

Just before leaving the farm, Nana pointed to a hill across the dirt road from his property and said that's where he wanted to build a home. On high ground. If only he and the rest of my family weren't stuck on a piece of land both blessed and cursed by its proximity to a force of nature that's decimated them once again.