African Thundershowers

Have you ever experienced an African thundershower? The afternoon remains unbelievably hot, clouds slyly assemble and daylight slowly fades. The sky turns green and the wind starts beating. Litter and leaves are swept away, trees start to shake with increasing velocity in anticipation of relentless violence. CRACK, lightning erupts, thunder booms Heaven wages war and it rains. Water falls everywhere, hail threatens. Weaker trees are annihilated and tiles ripped from our sanctuaries. Mother nature drenches us with her fuming tears. Men run for cover to escape her torrential fury, babies cry in their cribs and dogs cower in dark places. Then the clouds move on, birds melodiously reappear, the sun evaporates the pools left behind. And you would never have believed it was ever raining.