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Time fuh students measure rain
(Kaieteur News) – Every time flood lick Guyana, one miracle does happen. Everybody turn meteorologist overnight.
Soon as water touch yuh socks, some official jump up pon TV and holler, “Is de rain! Too much rain fall in too short a time!” Four inches. Five inches. Sometimes ten inches.
All in one night.
Dem boys seh de rain falling so fast nowadays it ain’t even got time fuh touch de ground.
And dem does announce it proud-proud too. Like dem expect yuh to clap while yuh fridge floating past yuh bed and yuh mattress doing backstroke in de yard.
But here is de funny part. Who measuring dis rain? Ain’t nobody know. Ain’t no one see de gauge. Ain’t no one see de chart. Ain’t no number yuh can check. Just vibes.
Dem boys seh de only “rain gauge” most people got is how much bucket a water dem bail out de house. If yuh bail ten bucket, dat must be ten inches. Scientific enough.
Back in dem boys school days, every school had a proper rain gauge in de yard. Teacher used to say, “Go outside. Check de level. Write it down.” Pickney learn science. Learn math. Learn facts.
Nowadays, de only thing schools measuring is how high de flood reach pon de step.
“Miss, today is ankle.” “Tomorrow knee.” “By Friday, waist.”
Dem boys seh is time fuh bring back rain gauge in schools. Mandatory. One per school.
Let de pickney dem measure rain for real.
Then when big people come on TV and seh, “Ten inches fall in thirty minutes,”
we gon have lil scientist raise dem hand and seh, “Excuse me, sir… we gauge seh two-point-three.”
And while dem at it, dem boys want answer to one more question. Is it really de rain causing all dis flood? Or is dem canal choke-up like traffic on East Bank at rush hour?
Secondary drains block. Tertiary drains vanish. Some ain’t see a excavator since Burnham had sideburns.
But rain always get de blame. Rain can’t answer back. So leh we stop tekking excuse and start tekking measurement. Because when yuh can’t measure something, yuh can blame it for anything.
Dem boys seh rainfall ain’t falling heavier. Is cover-up falling harder.
Talk half. Leff half.
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