What lurketh beneath?

I will never take for granted what may lurk at the bottom of a puddle on a street in Addis. The torrential rain that fell left a puddle ?? inches deep beside my guest house, directly in the path of where I was going for dinner. Like a ferenge, I stepped down in the puddle, knowing that there was terra firma underneath. I stepped in a hole and went down up to my thigh in rain water. I was wearing my boat shoes so no damage done to any footwear. Lesson learned ... terra firma in Addis could be terra dangera; I will not be stepping into any puddles blind again without testing first with a walking stick.