About dinner time, a distant rumble began. The sort of low-frequency noise you feel in your feet and your chest. By about eight a few drops were following and now at eleven, we are having a real frog-drowning rainstorm. Wind is shaking the palms and the rain is pounding on the roof of my shipping container. First rain since February.
Opened this thread thinking you were challenging your Korean pop-star nemesis to a dance off. Ah well.
I assume you have your rain gauge hanging out your window to tell you the amount of rain you are getting?
So, does anything suddenly bloom when it rains that hard there?
You’re in a shipping container?
I live in half of a 40-foot shipping container designed by some (seemingly Scandinavian) firm into worker’s housing. A bedroom, large closet and large bathroom, all to myself. The Filipinos have two to a room. Lord knows about the Pakistanis.
No blooms yet, but I will be out with my camera at dawn. Nothing like rain to perk up the migrating birds on our lawn.
Post more. Why are you in Qatar? We found it on the globe and if countries were farts, it would only be a pff without room for the t.
Living in an area with palms too, I find that when they’re shaken in the wind they sound like the corn stalks in the garden of my childhood.
Ugh. You have my pity, Paul. I know from experience how miserable the mud will be for you.
I am in damma, Saudi Arabia. I was only in Qatar for a year, and in that year changed my user name and now do not want to go back to** Paul in Saudi**. I am an English teacher here and my life is not all that remarkable. I have been here almost fifteen years and on the SDMB for almost as long. Nothing much to say about myself.
Except it is now down to 65 degrees F outside. Time for my footie pajamas!
I know Dammam well as I grew up in Daharan, just down the way(11 years in kingdom). Rain is a big deal and much welcomed. Lots of good memories for me in the eastern province of KSA.
P.S. First SDMB post for me!
Not really any of my business, but was always curious why you are still there?
I mean, I met lots of ESL teachers who would go to Saudi for a year or two, earn some big bucks there and then return to Europe or US and take that money to start a small business or buy a home or whatever.
At least in the “old days”, teaching there was a way to earn a nice chunk of change in a small amount of time and then hit the high road again with a nice nest egg.
I guess you like it there?