Keep in mind it rains very fews days a year here, and usually it's not a rainy day just a rainy "hour" or two. I believe I heard the annual rain fall is under 2 inches! It rained Saturday night for several hours and again a bit on yesterday, Sunday. Today it has been raining on and off, more on, for for the last five hours. Our first true "rainy day" here in Abu Dhabi, and Barry hits his one year anniversary in two days! So now that we have had a "real" rainy day it started me thinking about how different it is when it does rain in a place that it rarely does. SO the following are "Pattie" observations about a rainy day "Abu Dhabi" style.
On a rainy day in Abu Dhabi...
... the streets are wet enough that when the men cross the streets they have to hold up their white "dresses" (dish-dashes) so the hems don't get wet!
... It felt so wonderful to walk outside on a ninety degree day and get wet enough to "mess up" my hair! I wouldn't of used an umbrella if I had one!
... you get "really" excited about the prospect of enough rain to "clean" the windows on your apt. building that are covered in a fine sandy dust the other 364 days of the year!
... after a good down pour the roads are all a "sandy white" like after a snowstorm and the snow melts and all that "stuff" is left on the roads!
... Reem Island which is still under construction with temporary roads turns into one big mud pit!! Oh, did I mention that is where Barry's job site is located and I had to drive him to work in the Toyota Yaris in the rain?
... all the men "caught out" in the heavy downpour this afternoon in their white robes looked like they could enter a wet t-shirt contest. Not a pretty sight!
... your husband's biggest worry on a day of rain is the condition of the six meter deep hole that was just dug on his job site. Will the borders hold?
... absolutely everyones car is covered in mud specks!!
... your landlord asks you; "It rain day today, everything okay in your apt.? It leak?" Thankfully the answer to question one was yes and no to question two!
1 comments:
Hmmmm.... maybe I should appreciate our rain more? It hasn't stopped raining here for 2 weeks!!! Wet farm is not a pretty smell.
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