Enjoy it while it lasts

17 January 2008

THE heavy downpour for the past couple of days brought smiles to children’s faces as they got surprise holidays. I saw kids dancing in the rain in front of my building and remembered the good old days we enjoyed during rain back home.

For some reason or the other the incessant rain though it causes havoc on the roads gives some elated joyous feelings and especially to the people where rain is a rare sight and more so when it is continuous. For the residents of Abu Dhabi, life is almost back to normal as offices and schools are open and functioning as usual. Traffic is not in chaos, unlike Dubai where lots of people got stuck on the roads.

I heard radio jam buster announcements that people take hours to reach their destinations. Better stay home is the advice. I wish I had a four wheel drive and how handy it is to negotiate the water logged roads and joking about the poor saloon car owners which are not equipped to float in water.