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Old 06-04-2012, 09:20 AM   #92
Urbane Guerrilla
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Originally Posted by DanaC View Post
Say what? A convention to pray for rain?

Wow.
The US does have to deal with drouthy conditions somewhere pretty regularly. Seems to depend on which wriggles the jet stream takes in a given year. Drought years in England tend to look like average-rainfall years to us. So this sort of thing is popular when things get bad enough you might as well pray for it.

I remember thinking, busing through Scotland, "Boy, you just can't die of thirst in this place. Not without breaking both legs or your back."
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