This happens often when it rains heavily, but the principal sensed something abnormal was up as parents rushed in faster and in greater numbers than usual.

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The roads are bad even when the weather is good, often impassable when it rains or snows.

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Mutesi wakes at 5 a.m. every morning to "begin a two-hour trek through Katwe to fill a jug with drinkable water, walking through lowland that is often so severely flooded by Uganda's torrential rains that many residents sleep in hammocks near their ceilings to avoid drowning, " he wrote.

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However, economists said it was too early to cheer the forecast as the weather department often goes off the mark, including last year when it initially predicted normal rains.

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There residents often live without indoor plumbing and in the summer months endure the scorching heat and heavy rains.

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