When we first moved to Maui, it rained. A lot. In fact, it rained like it was never going to stop for a time. And when I say it rained, I don’t mean that light, sprinkling rain you get on the mainland. I’m talking 40-days/40-nights type precipitation. It doesn’t start slowly, build up, peak, and slowly diminish either. It drops out of the sky in buckets from outta nowhere and when it decides it has rained enough, it just stops like someone turned off a faucet.
This year we hadn’t had much in the way of rain. I was beginning to think last year was a fluke. Then four weeks ago it started to rain on Oahu and flooded Honolulu and the surrounding areas. All the other islands were getting rained on too, but not Maui. I thought maybe we would be spared the powerful rainstorms assaulting the other islands. Then about a week ago, the rain gods finally appeared in the form of a series of rain storms that dropped a foot of rain all over the island.
This picture was taken on my cell phone camera as I got caught in a torrential downpour. Keep in mind that when I walked out of my house, it was sunny and warm. By the time I got down the street, I felt like an extra in a cecil b demille epic about a great flood. I cowered in an alcove for twenty minutes as the rain hammered the ground around me. It was fun to watch the tourists, sneering their bad luck, run to the cars and head to their temporary lodgings thinking that the rain would last an eternity. Of course, 20 minutes later, the rain stopped, the sun came out and all was once again perfect in paradise.
I love living here when it rains. It washes away the dust obviously, but it also washes away the dirty bastards who take it all for granted.
Other than the fact that my hair gets really frizzy -I love the rain. I guess it would be even nicer if it only lasted 20 minutes and was sunny and warm immediately afterward.
How weird, though. From your description I’m picturing tourists in Jimmy Buffet shirts and bikinis running around like crazy, screaming, looking for shelter and then all of a sudden it stops and people are just standing there mid-run with newspapers over their heads. . .then they pretend they were just reading it so they don’t look like dorks.
I love the rain too – it rained quite a bit when we were in Maui, and now, my boss is enjoying it. 😉
Cute new graphic in your top banner.
Im more of a cake person. Rain, its fine. you can’t be a Limey and not appreciate a downpour..but Id rather eat cake.
Nice banner. Showing some skin! 🙂
That looks so cool! Very nice. What is up with your other pic though? Is that a football on the beach?
hahahah… that isn’t a football… it’s a coconut… they grow on trees here… so many you can’t throw a rock without hitting a coconut lying on the beach. Want one? I can mail you one along with the CD I owe you.