These cells are replicating even though they have no DNA. ibid.
Clouds spout upon her
Their waters amain
In ruthless disdain, –
Here who but lately
Had shivered in pain … Thomas Hardy, Rain on a Grave
How it rained
When we worked at Flintcomb-Ash,
And could not stand upon the hill
Trimming swedes for the slicing-mill.
The wet washed through us – plash, plash, plash:
How it rained! Thomas Hardy, We Field-Women
In June the air would day by day become more humid ... There would be electric storms for a few days beforehand – high winds, thunder and dust, a heavy drop or two of rain. Then, on the first day of the monsoon, a tremendous storm of rain, lasting for hours ... When it rained, large drops fell slowly, then faster and thicker until they were almost a waterfall. It fell too fast for the earth to swallow it; it laid the dust, filled the rivers, and spread a surface of slippery mud on the hard earth. John Masters, Nightrunners of Bengal pp177-178
During the early part of May the weather was exceptionally bad, with bitterly cold winds … The weather had the effect of stopping nearly all outside work, and also caused a lot of illness, for those who were so fortunate as to have inside jobs frequently got wet through on their way to work in the morning and had to work all day in damp clothing, and with their boots saturated with water. Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist
Imagine a world where temperatures rise to 120 degrees Fahrenheit. Where there’s no escape from the sun, wind and dust. Imagine a world with almost no food or water. These are the conditions in one third of the lands of our planet. To live here demands the most extraordinary survival strategies. David Attenborough, Planet Earth II, BBC 2006
It does sometimes rain the desert. Here in the American West, storms can strike with devastating force. After ten months of drought, millions of tonnes of water are dumped on the land with in under an hour. ibid.
Locusts: An unstoppable force that devours everything in its path. But this devastation is about to get a lot worse. The locusts now transform into winged adults … They can take to the skies … A super-swarm of this scale may only appear once in a decade: this extends over 200 miles and contains several billion individuals. ibid
Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on. F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. Author unknown
May 10th. Thank God for the rain which has helped wash away the garbage and trash off the sidewalks. I’m workin’ long hours now, six in the afternoon to six in the morning. Sometimes even eight in the morning, six days a week. Sometimes seven days a week. It’s a long hustle but it keeps me real busy. I can take in three, three-fifty a week. Sometimes even more when I do it off the meter. All the animals come out at night – whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets. I go all over. I take people to the Bronx, Brooklyn, I take ’em to Harlem. I don’t care. Don’t make no difference to me. It does to some. Some won’t even take spooks. Don’t make no difference to me. Taxi Driver 1976 starring Robert De Niro & Jodie Foster & Harvey Keitel & Cybill Shepherd & Albert Brooks & Leonard Harris & Peter Boyle & Harry Northup & Martin Scorsese & Victor Argo et al, director Martin Scorsese
August 7th 1994, Oakville, Washington: This is no conventional rainstorm. Instead of pouring down raindrops, something else falls from the sky … The blobs seem to be comprised of a translucent gelatinous substance. And in some photos … they are accompanied by dead frogs. The Proof is Out There s3e7, History 2023
In May to July 2007 Great Britain was pounded by more rain that any other summer on record. Entire counties were deluged with a month’s rainfall in just a few hours creating catastrophic floods. Rising floodwaters saw 20,000 families forced to flee their homes. The Great Flood of ’07, Channel 5 2023
August 1994, Oakville: ‘But do you know about the blobs that fell over Washington state?’ Files of the Unexplained s1e7: Bizarre Blobs of Washington, DJ, Netflix 2024
‘It was raining and then people saw these little pellets of weird goo … This thing happened over a series of rain events.’ ibid. dude
On August 7th 1994 small gelatinous blobs rained down on the small town of Oakville, Washington. ibid.
‘This substance contained a human white blood cell was quite unexpected.’ ibid. Sunny
That same week a number of Oakville residents became ill, many with similar symptoms. ibid.