Living close by to the river surely has its disadvantages especially during the rainy season. Not only does one has to keep wake at night but face evacuation.  Teresa Suki lives close by to the Tenaru river, near the bridge. But this time round, it wasn’t her and the grandchildren that were facing evacuation. Instead it was her pigs.  Following the heavy rainfall, water has now risen to the pigs fence and Teresa says she had to let her pigs out from their fence or risk having them taken by the flooded Tenaru river. Teresa says she hasn’t slept a wink but was on the look out for the rising water during night time. She says living close by to the river banks is okay except when it rains.  “Here water will reach this floor and what we usually do is to go up to higher ground on the road and wait for the water to go down. Last night we didn’t sleep for fear of flood but it didn’t reach our house yet except for my pigs fence. So I have to break open the fe...