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Tell them to 'batten down the hatches', because there's a HARD RAIN coming.
FORBES
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Kern County, for one, had seen its population swell by more than 60 percent in the last five years, and although health officers had cleaned up the squatter camps that once plagued the area, many migrants were still living in slums with inadequate sewers and drains, ramshackle houses, and litter-strewn dirt roads that would turn to mud after a hard winter rain.
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"It was a little bit hard with the rain and that coming, " said Stoner.
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Panama derives more than half of its energy from hydroelectric power and a lack of rain has hit the supply hard.
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Where once it had recycled mountain rain into a vast aquifer underneath, its hard bottom now ushers occasional floodwater right out to sea.
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Not all Open courses are equally hard, and sometimes a potentially difficult course is softened by rain and lack of wind.
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On Tuesday, the hard work finally paid off as crowds of onlookers braved rain, cold winds and a few rogue waves to see the light display's first official showing.
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The National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia, or Fedecafe, isn't giving a firm forecast for next year's crop, saying estimates are hard to make given the large amount of rain that came down this winter.
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"It started to rain really hard in the evening, and began to flood, " said Augustina Garcia Orsi, a 25-year-old student.
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On the night in question, the rain was particularly violent it came down like handfuls of nails flung hard and fast by a seriously riled sky god.
NEWYORKER: Fjord of Killary
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It was disappointing for Durham with all the rain over the first two days but for us to be able to push hard enough to get a result was a fantastic effort and proves we are playing some excellent cricket.
BBC: Paul Collingwood column