Floods in Peru

I flew into Cuzco on January 24th in between storms and into a diaster.
As we drove from Cuzco to Pisac i noticed bolders and trees in the highway, but the only explaination i got was "mucha lluvia" ( a lot of rain)
My first night it poured all through the night and in the morining we woke to find more boulders had slide down the mountain side into the roads, the fields flooded, and the bridge to Pisac had broke of the bank of the river. Life for the people here has drastically changed over night. The bridge that crosses the Vilcanota river is the only way the tourists come to the market and ruins from Cuzco. There is a walking bridge about a mile down the road that crosses the river and this is how people get from Taray to Pisac.
The rain continued through the day and following night. The sitaution got much worse, the two main bridges that cross the once was stream to the town of Taray were uncrossable. The mountains on either sides of the valley were draining into this tiny stream bed. The people worked tirelessly though the night though in the end their efforts were futile, the stream broke through. The water´s force flooded the stream bank and redirceted itself through the streets and fields of Taray. Homes were flooded and destroyed.
It was now time to reasses the sitaution, to cross the stream we need to climb up the mountain side and down to the third and last bridge up the river. If that bridge went we would be stuck for awhile. We went into Pisac, the tourists had fled leaving the locals and the die hard tavelers. Most of the shops were closed the the locals stood at the bridge just staring at the water, their livelyhood furiously passing them by.
Days have passed, the Peruvian authorities have come to help blockade the water, redirecting it away from homes. The sun has also come, thanks to god! Though it continues to rain and will for the next 2 months. It has been much worse up the Sacred Valley and at Machu Picchu.
I take it day by day and hope the rain lets up a bit.
It will take months to repair the damage and for the tourist traffic to resume but the people have come together and are starting to rebuild the entrepreneurs are resilient as ever and all will adapt to the changes over time.