It's raining men...

Hallelujah! It's raining men...Amen.. and the song goes on...

It's been raining here in the arid desert once a year for a few days and it is enough to make the whole place goes chaos. Those who always drive 120km/h still drives like a madman on the road that has poor drainage system creates a chaos when their car started hydro-planing and swerving uncontrollably and start the accidents. Roads throughout the city were jam-packed with cars that are slowing down because of these accidents and puddles on the road. Some were stuck for five and a half hours in the car going home from work. Not to mention at junctions people were honking one another to give way or to get out of their way or either plain angry because of the length of time they spent in the vehicle. I was driving without destination and came across these incidents (just for the fun of it, hey I miss the rains alright!). I saw at least two accidents along my 4 hours drive, one ambulance and two police cars in separate locations.

Flash floods due to lack of draining pipe on the road makes it worse. Few roads were closed and even basement parking of Mercato Mall on Jumeirah Road also shut down during this rainy days (3 days continuosly that is..LOL)

NOTE: It rains few days every year but the road still has a very poor drainage. Even the newly built roads...Have they not learned????

Rain started on last Friday all over the weekend (weekend here is Friday & Saturday). Cool rain, I love it! 17 degrees Celsius during the day and one or two degrees lower during the night, absolute moments I've been waiting for. Compensation for the hot summer months (from late April til end of October this year) does make the heat forgotten. Sipping my hot cocoa (made traditionally by heating low fat milk in a pot and add pure cocoa drinking powder until the lumps from the cocoa gone, and stir all the time until it thickens, add a marshmellow or two to add flavor)..absolutely delighted. Snuggling with my husband watching telly and my cat purring nearby, just the moment I need to make all seems better. There's always silver lining in dark clouds I hear people say..which is true.