No evacuation, peacefull days but not nights...

No evacuation at least not for us, the U.S. ordered the evacuation of all non-emergency personal and their families last week, we had flights to get out on Friday but decided against it after alot of thought and talking. We were not in danger and if things got worse (which they didn't) we could always go. The school was on spring break last week so I guess it was a good time for a coup de' tat.
The ex-mayor (now president of madagascar) took power after the military took over, there are still rallies downtown but peaceful for now, and the riots have stopped leaving me with one store left to shop in. Thank goodness we just finished getting the house set up.

Things were back to normal so we thought, Saturday night around 1:30am we had 4 guys cut the bobwire fence in the back yard (only one guy got over the wall) thank god for a great security guard that heard something and ran back to see what the noise was all about to find a man coming over the wall and told the guard to go away so they could rob the house. Most security would have gotten scared and ran, but he ran around the house to hit the emergency button on the wall and the siren started, lights flashing and within 2 minutes we had 7 security guards here with full riot gear on running all over the yard.
It took us a few minutes to figure out what was going on before we realized how lucky we were...Jeff gave the security man a bounus of about one to two month pay for keeping us safe.

Needles to say we now have razor ribbon on all the walls, 2 extra panic buttons, security was doubled during the day and night with a dog to top it all off. We have installed lights on every wall outside the house and yes bars are going up on the windows.
But we have been very lucky for the last 9 years doing this work in these places and this is the only (hope last) time we have had problems...