The true power of rain

It has been raining for the past couple days. Many of you guys are from the Pacific Northwest and know rain. You know rain so well that if you were to use rain as your primary character in a novel you would know how it would react in any situation. I think that in about 1000 years all babies in the Pacific Northwest are going to be born with webbed feet and excessively oily skin.

As annoying as rain is, I know how to deal with it. I think I'm the only person at my school who doesn't carry an umbrella but prefers to just wear a waterproof jacket. We all know how important rain is. We know that excessive amounts of rain can cause severe damage. Most recently, this can be best expressed with what happened in Thailand. However, for me, that isn't the true power of rain.

There are many, many types of weather we experience throughout the year; hot and arid, hot and humid, snowy, foggy, overcast, windy, and more. But the most influential is rain. How many times have people literally felt their emotions change drastically with other weather types. When it is sunny, people are generally happier. Many people feel that childhood giddiness in them when they see snow for the first time of the winter. But when one wakes up in the morning and sees that it is still raining, still soaking everything, still making your joints ache and your pant cuffs wet, there is never any emotion other than gloom. When people get married, they hope for sunny days, or if it's in the winter, they hope for a white christmas (if you're in the Northern Hemisphere) but never once do people hope to have their big events on a rainy day. The only time I've ever heard people wish for rain was in Oklahoma when the farmers needed the rain to grow their wheat. . .then they curse it when it doesn't stop at the right time.

Sure there are some exceptions to the norm, but in general, I feel that the true power of rain is its pure, undeniable ability to rain on everyone's parade.