81. Only in a country like India, whose economy is still two-thirds farming, could a good rainy season be the biggest economic news of the quarter. 82. Pleated stems work like an accordion, contracting in drought and expanding to store water during rainy seasons. 83. People are being forced to eat their seed-corn, so that when the next rainy season starts there will be nothing left to plant. 84. Rainy season is from July through October. 85. Rangers used four-wheel drive vehicles, but during the rainy season, which runs from May to September, the vehicles got bogged down in the mud. 86. Rainy season means people stay away from the beaches but flock, instead, to the Guadalupe, Frio and Sabinal rivers for inner-tubing, officials said. 87. Reservoirs and shallow wells, the report said, could have been tainted by surface water during the rainy season. 88. So the dimmer stars foretell El Nino, when there will be less rain than normal in the Andes, and the rainy season will be delayed. 89. Since it is the rainy season, other pockets of refugees found clean water in springs. 90. Suddenly the tears are falling like Niagara in a rainy season. |