More than 300,000 people living in the danger zone directly under the volcano regard it as a living thing, a magical man-mountain, a geological god giving rain and rich land.
In another study, children of four to five years old said that things fell because they had to, that the sun and moon did not fall because they had to give light, and that the clouds did not fall because they had to give rain (Bar et al. 1994).
The weather at the accident area was dominated by a low pressure trough, giving rain showers and wind from 15-30 kn at 240 270°.
We imitated Wolf Blitzer giving rain delay updates, tried out ridiculous home run calls, a discussion of hockey prompted us to roll our chairs and body check each other while calling the play-by-play.
God gives rain one day, and at other times it becomes dry.
"It's giving rain for tomorrow".
Needless to say, efforts like Mr. Hatfield's gave rain-making a bad name.
In crude terms, car-driving conservative retirees still turn out in driving rain, when bus-taking lower-income workers just back from a night shift are more likely to give rain-soaked polls a miss.
