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Once in a lifetime.(Story)(Short Story)
There was very little you could do when the rain came, save wait. The dry earth opened and the rain came and filled the floodplain, the dusted earth and the city stuck improbably there. One minute the hot night wind, the next the rainfall, thick-sheeted so heavy you could hardly breathe. You and everything else, all the lives found there, trapped, stopped helplessly for this.
You study your face, the way your lips draw down, the lines about the eyes, the same usual things, the things you notice only up close at the hairdresser's, in the bright lights of the women's toilets, the car mirror. And what is it you see? What mystery, or puzzle to be apprehended, ...
- The Rain Came Down.(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Horn Book Magazine K.F. September 1, 2000 700+ words
David Shannon The Rain Came Down; illus. by the author 32 pp. Blue Sky/Scholastic 10/00...another in a chain reaction of human frustration. "And still, the rain came down," Shannon's pacing reflects the controlled chaotic scene...
- Floating voters; THE RAIN CAME DOWN, NAT HOPES WENT UP.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England) Hancock, Louise May 7, 1999 700+ words
...weather meant there was a smaller than hoped for turnout at the elections to the first Scottish Parliament in 300 years. As the rain came down, Labour hopes of an overall majority fell with it - and Alex Salmond's confidence shot up. Experts blamed the poor...
- FARMERS WELCOME RAIN BUT NEED MORE THE RAIN CAME AT A CRUCIAL TIME FOR SOME...
- Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) July 23, 2002 700+ words
...corn in the state is 62 inches, shorter than the five-year average of 66 inches, the report said. For some farmers, the rain came at the crucial time when corn tassels and pollinates. Without adequate moisture, the ears will have fewer and smaller kernels...
- A Look back: 'when the rain came'.(Front)
- Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot August 19, 2009 700+ words
...Virginia's Nelson and Rockbridge counties. Dozens were killed in the flash flooding and avalanches that followed. "When the Rain Came," The Virginian-Pilot's eight-part series on the storm, is now available at PilotOnline.com.
- A father sits with his sons and dying wife..and quietly tells of the terrible...
- Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England) Arnold, Harry March 4, 2000 700+ words
...home with his wife and their boys Ruben, five, and Velem, three. He told me in broken English what happened the night the rain came. They were asleep in their home in the town of Xaixai, one of the worst hit by the terrifying floods. Matios works a few...
- One big week; Falkirk was the place to be last week as all the stars came out -...
- Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) June 3, 2000 700+ words
IT WAS One Big Sunday when the stars came out to play. Okay, the rain came out to play, too, but it was better than your average wet Sunday in Falkirk. Among the big names who played at the free Radio...
- Rain came, rain coming: Downpours inundate Maryland; evacuations urged in North...
- Newspaper article from: Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD) June 27, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Michael Dresser and Annie Linskey Jun. 27--Hundreds of people were being urged to leave their homes in North Laurel late last night as heavy rains prompted the opening of floodgates on the neighboring Rocky Gorge Dam - the most recent problem for Marylanders soaked by a storm system stalled
- Rain came; now for the ducks . . .
- Newspaper article from: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX) January 17, 2007 700+ words
Byline: Ray Sasser DALLAS _ Last weekend's wet and cold weather event may have come too late to salvage what, for most hunters, has been a lackluster duck season. Wet and cold are the key words here, particularly in East Texas. Since Friday, as much as eight inches of rain has fallen on some areas
