RAIN

A hot, sunny country, with months and months of dry weather and the first rain is a big event .Everybody has something to say about it

For me nothing is more comforting than waking up from my comfy warm bed to the sound of rain outside. And the scent of that first rain, wow!! So nice, The streets I am sure needed a good wash. It certainly wasn’t the same as the rare raindrops in the Desert that send kids outside dancing and cause flash floods during their five minute downpour. But it’s so nice to have rain instead of sticky humidity.

People here get all edgy when they feel the drops. It could be just a few drops, but people will start running as if it is a torrentious downpour. Traffic comes to a standstill. Drivers get nervous when drops knock their windowshields. Roads get slick from the accumulation of greases and oils amalgamating with the rains, so drivers drive much slower, even if it is a light rain that poses no danger.

Today people are looking out the window watching the rain, talking about the rain, blogging about the rain. But they are missing something. The beautiful sensation of it.

***ASHLYN***