Many Chinese save a big chunk of their incomes for a raining day.
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And basically what they found was that it is harder to find a taxi when it is raining.
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By this time, human beings, as we know them, will have changed so dramatically that we could no longer assume we would be in a "It's Raining Men" type-world, in which women were just naturally dominant, and males the subordinate group.
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Jesalva said he was in the group that spent the night on the picturesque mountain, known for its almost-perfect cone, when the volcano rumbled back to life early in the morning and rocks "as big as a living room" came raining down on them.
It was raining lightly, and about a half-block away, the drops on the car windows picked up the glow coming off the place.
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Although it was still raining, the weather service lifted a flash-flood watch for Pennsylvania counties Sunday morning.
"It's very difficult to feel anything because the track is so slippery, there is a lot of oil - and obviously it's raining, " he said.
Himself, a farm boy, he was haunted by the imaged of a farm family sitting down to lunch and his bomber raining death from the sky on them.
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As the art directors scrambled to address last-minute requests and the copywriters (including yours truly) banged away on final, final versions of those blessed sentences no one supposedly reads anymore, it started raining hard as hell with thunder and lightning, a major rarity in Northern California.
It was raining, and the car in front of me hit a lorry pulling out.
She had planned to camp out, but when it began raining, stewards persuaded her to spend the night in a tent nearby.
What you get for your money is a brace of decent shocks, a spray of special effects (look out for the upward-raining bathwater), and almost no sense of dread.
He leaves a trail of drops on the wooden floor behind him, although it stopped raining quite some time ago.
And in 2008 Chinese soldiers fired more than a thousand rockets filled with chemicals at clouds over Beijing to prevent them from raining on the Olympics.
"Not many people do house calls, " she says on her way to a checkup on a 2-week old boy -- a visit she is making by car rather than bicycle because it's raining.
Up ahead, a group of Americans, some wounded, were desperately trying to escape the bullets raining down.
It began as a relatively simple tale of two characters, meeting by chance very early on a fine May morning (meaning, one assumes, it wasn't actually raining) while walking out of London up Tottenham hill, and spending their time in the discussion and practice of the joys of fishing.
The aircraft experienced a "catastrophic mechanical malfunction" during takeoff from Naval Air Station Oceana on Friday, raining jet fuel over Virginia Beach before plunging to the ground, according to residents and Navy officials.
They'll look outside and see a blue sky... and the airline will say, 'Well, it's raining in Dallas or Atlanta.
But Howard Altschule, a meteorologist, testified for the prosecution that at the time Mr. Mosley said he was snowboarding, it was raining and there was no snow.
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