Drizzle causes chaos in dry Chilean city

wow, and people here worry about getting their shoes wet... imagine your roof collapsing

LOL Im originally from Wisconsin but I spent last winter near the Puget Sound in Washington (think Seattle).
They told me "it never snows, it just rains; and if it does snow it melts right away". But around x-mas, it did snow! Almost six whole inches!! I swear to god, the town I was in literally shut down. Almost every store closed, they didn't have enough plows to clear the roads and NO ONE even thought to clear some sidewalks. Not only that, the plows that were out, I think, were putting SAND on the roads! I was totally flabbergasted! I thought, where's your salt? Sand don't do shit on snowy frozen roads!! Holy shit I'm glad I got out of there!

This reminds me exactly of London this winter ... I think there were like four inches of snow and the entire city shut down. I'm from Massachusetts and i thought it was tanning weather.

I used to live on a plain of acrid brimstone, and when it rained flint from the volcanic vents every few minutes, the sparks as the shards rained upon the ground set the landscape on fire.---everyone has their own weather hell---

This is also a problem in parts of California. One of the big issues is if it never rains the oil from passing cars never gets washed off the roads and just builds up. In situations like that a light rain is the worst kind of rain. It's enough to lift the oil off the road bed making it dangerously slippery, but not enough to wash it of the road.

Water falling from the sky!!! Must be some kind of damnation!

That there Tornayda'cn' tooked cuzzin' Cletus”

~ A Hillbilly
“A poet can survive anything, with the exception of a tornadocane!”

~ Oscar Wilde on Tornadocanes
NEVERMIND!!!!! hope yall find cousin Cletus......

and Im sure the people in that city are saying "are you shitting me?" about some of the stories that come out of Oklahoma!
And what might I ask what a tornadocane supposed to be?

I used to live in Texas, and when it rained, it would come down so hard it was like buckets were pouring out of the sky... you couldn't even see through the rain out your front door to see across the street.

The streets would flood every time it rained.

If their roofs aren't sloped to drain rain away, why do they have roofs at all?

Haha, EmpThan. I'm an Okie as well, and I know the feeling. I feel priviledged to be in one of the only areas of the US, maybe the world, that has ever experienced a "Tornadocane".

To be fair, I don't think many parts of OK are built to be earthquake-proof, necessarily. But it's crazy that that Chilean town could be affected by so little!

I live in Oklahoma.

I have driven in rain so hard I couldn't see out the windows of my car and thunder so loud I literally thought a jumbo jet crashed! And neither slowed me from going 75 mph on the highway.

And that's only MOST of the year's weather here.

All I can say to this story is: "are you shitting me?"

Well, it's worth mentioning that towns like Iquique in the Atacama Desert are among the driest on earth (even though it's by the sea, it never rains).

So probably nobody gives a crap about some crazy notion like building "waterproof roofs".