More Rain!

For some unknown reason, rain water finds no way to flow away quickly from the streets. So when it rains heavily (which it does every now and then), streets immediately change into rivers, with all the fun that involves!

Rain

Alhamdulillah, we have some rain these days (in/around Sana'a, at least - I don't know about the rest of the country. That's an interesting thing here anyway - rain can be extremely local: often there may be rain in one part of the city but nothing in another). It usually doesn't last for more than an hour or so, but that's enough to make the air smell fresh (especially since Sana'a has quite dusty air). These days, some water comes down nearly every day. The last good rain we had was during the last month of Ramadhan, I believe, so that's quite a while ago. And when rain is a rare occurance, it becomes much more beloved to the people. "Beautiful weather, isn't it?" one might say when it rains. I think that readers in rainy countries (such as Britain or Holland) can smile about that!