Here Comes The Rain Again

It's not like we live in the third world or anything (right!), but, like any true developing country as soon as the rain started this morning we had two power failures of at least an hour each. I called the bank in the midst of the darkness, they couldn't help me because, of course, they too were out of power. So it rained today, first real rain of the season, and like everything in Israel, we just were not prepared for it. Streets flooded, phone lines went down, power outages all over - big fun. Yet through all this, everyone was so happy to see real WATER falling from the sky that no one could complain. The water shortage here is real and threatening. They raised the price of water to households significantly and now the shortage is causing real pain for everywhere in the most sensitive spot - their pockets. One one hand we need a real wet winter, but on the other, if it rains enough, the government will go back to putting their heads in the (dry) sand and tell us all is well - what water crisis !!!

So bring on the rain - I love it.