Latest update August 4th, 2026 12:30 AM
Rain got more secrets than politician
(Kaieteur News) – A few weeks ago, rain fall in Guyana like if Noah had reopen applications for the ark. Water deh pon road, water deh in trench, water deh in yard, and one man swear he see a hassar swimming past he gate looking for higher ground. Dem boys start to panic and seh de whole country gon float away and end up moor up somewhere near Trinidad.
But as sudden as it come, de rain pack up and disappear.
Now sunshine blazing like if it trying to collect back-pay. Grass drying out, dust rising, and some people who did complain about too much rain now complaining that cassava cracking in de ground. Dem boys seh Guyanese does complain in every season. If rain fall, it too much. If sun shine, it too hot. If breeze blow, it carrying dust. If no breeze blow, it stifling.
So now de big question is: when de rainy season really starting?
One day de weatherman come on television with map, arrows, blue patches, cloud movement, pressure system and enough scientific words to confuse everybody. He point at de screen serious-serious and seh, “There is a possibility of scattered showers over coastal regions.”
That could mean Georgetown gon flood and Berbice dry, or Linden wet and Essequibo bright. Is like prophecy with graphics.
One old lady tell dem boys she don’t need no weather forecast. She seh when she knee start pain, rain coming. Another man seh when ants start carrying leaf uphill, prepare fuh flood. A third one seh when neighbour wash curtain, rain sure fuh fall before it dry. In the old days all yuh had to do was to arrange a Test match in Guyana and yuh sure rain gan fall.
Dem boys notice too that umbrella got a strange power. Once you carry it, sun gon shine all day and people gon laugh at you. But leave it home one time, and cloud gon gather from nowhere like political promises before election.
Same thing with raincoat. Walk with one and you gon sweat till you nearly faint. Leave it and sky gon burst open exactly when you reach halfway from bus stop to office.
So dem boys ain’t studying no exact date for rainy season no more. In Guyana, rain season start when you wash car, dry season begin when you plant bora, and flood warning come when you paint yuh lower wall.
Until then, carry umbrella, carry shades, and maybe a paddle too. Just in case.
Talk half. Leff half.
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