EL NIÑO'S RAINS

El NIÑO’S RAINS

Yesterday I woke up in a ‘”gloomy” morning. Thick, dark clouds like the yokes of century eggs were hovering all over the skies but everybody was happy. The “gloom” was in fact a welcome development now that everyone was praying for rains.

The effects of El Niño have been damaging farms, plants and animals. Diseases were appearing one after another. Heat was somehow devastating every individual. The appearance of dark “gloomy” clouds were like sudden sparks of light during black outs.

The dark clouds were possibly brought about by artificial cloud-seeding to induce rains. But rain, it did not. Instead very tiny particles of raindrops showered for a while making everyone exposed to them, catched colds. Sneezing and coughing were the untoward results. What a waste of money if it was indeed cloud-seeding that carried the thick dark clouds for a while.

When the climate was very hot, even tempers rise too often and too easily. Misunderstandings ensued quickly and quarrels became very common incidents and to think that we were only at the early stage of El Niño phenomenon.

Authorities announced that the heat wave was expected to last ‘till the month of June. Natural springs were gone and small rivers were dried. People were requested to save water but fires were left and right like every time during fire-prevention month. It was ironic that water was supposed to be saved and fire was supposed to be prevented.

While El Niño was doubling its damages to life and properties, candidates for the coming elections were throwing lots of money trying to destroy each other.

The whole day I was in complaining mood until I went to bed and then all of a sudden this morning when I woke up it was raining gently. People’s lamentations must have reached heaven which gave us the kind of rain that penetrated the scorched soil.

Instead of singing my favorite childhood song: “Rain, rain go away”, I belted out “All flowers will sing, all fields will rejoice, true joy is all around. All flowers will sing, all fields will rejoice,.. Good rain is now pouring down.