Blog 9: Nature essay ideas/freewrite

Rain Ideas:

driving in the rain, my car hydroplanes and sends me sliding; I have to be extra cautious and squint to see. My windshield wipers don’t work that well either.

Hate walking in the rain. The bottoms of my pants get soaked and I feel like I’m sloshing around with extra baggage on me. Hate the way my hair frizzes when it gets wet, the way my glasses fog up and I have to keep cleaning them.

Hate the way the rain ruins nights, my mood, everything. Can’t drive fast or far when it’s pouring. Can’t have a party outside when it’s pouring. Plans get ruined from the rain. My mood becomes more morose when it’s raining, because of the dark skies and the grey clouds and the falling buckets of water.

Love the rain when I have nothing to do but stay inside and watch movies, curl under a blanket, read a book. Love falling asleep to the sound of rain falling. Love hearing the pitter patter of raindrops on my roof. Love kissing in the rain, running around in a summer rain when I have nowhere I have to go and need to look nice for. Love the freedom I feel in rain.

Lack of rain, or drought, causes everyone to be cranky. The grass becomes drier, crispy, and brownish. Temperatures are high, the air is arid and it’s almost hard to breathe.

Too much rain also makes people angry. Flooding conditions make it unsafe to drive and to leave the house. Cars crash easier. Parks and grass becomes damp, soggy, and muddy. Sports events can’t be played. I remember one time, about 5 or 6 years ago, when it rained for 11 days straight. It was as if the sun would never shine again.

Rainbows?

The process of creating rain is long and detailed. Essentially, it occurs when growing cloud droplets become too heavy for the cloud to contain and therefore fall to the ground as precipitation.

Rain water falls in a multitude of ways. Sometimes it downpours, engulfing everything on the ground in drenching mess. This kind of rain can include wind, which causes the falling rain to slant to one side, rather than fall directly down in a straight line.