As the rain comes down, fans have taken to sliding across water-slickened tarps and muddy stretches in a makeshift slip-and-slide.

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The crown was lighted in a way "to create the vision of the moment after the clouds open up and the rain comes through, " said Mr. McKenzie.

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Unfortunately many people remain at risk, with the threat of disease when the rain eventually comes.

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There is even a beach and "ocean, " so I guess we get to see where rain really comes from.

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And contrary to popular opinion, the actual worm doesn't like rain and comes up to escape the burrows being flooded.

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More than half of the world's food comes from rain-fed farms, as opposed to irrigated ones.

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When it rains, all the rain from that escarpment comes this way.

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And the rain, when it comes, is intensely acid.

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They want us to grow our own food, kill our cars, stop traveling, eat tofu instead of meat and wear open toed hemp sandals whilst standing in the rain for a bus that never comes.

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At other times, Schmidt comes alive as a sort of political Rain Man.

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But on launch day it all comes down to the uncontrollable forces of nature: clouds, rain, lighting and vultures.

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