Rain

I enjoy the rain. I like to run around outside in a gentle rain. I don’t like when it rains really hard, though. It makes it far too muddy around my house and dangerous on the roads. Rain is good for the land. Rain is an essential part of living out in the country. It waters peoples’ crops and fills ponds. Many animals rely on rainwater. They also rely on the plants that grow from the water. Rain can do some things that aren’t so great as well. Rain can cause flash floods, which kill more people than any other natural disaster in Texas each year. It only takes two inches of rain moving at five miles per hour to sweep a car off of the road. Rain can erode things and cause sinkholes in the ground. There is so much ground water in this area, people can’t have basements because they would flood.