Death seems ever-present in the slum, where a fever or disease easily caught from unclean water in the rainy season can claim a life without much warning.
Malaria is always a risk in the rainy season but the flooding is expected to make the situation worse.
You might have to drive through a river during the rainy season.
Neither made allowances in their calendar for the World Cup, which started slightly earlier this time in a failed attempt to defeat Asia's rainy season.
And while Taiwan sweats through what is supposed to be its rainy season, Jim Hines, a chip manufacturing analyst with Gartner Dataquest in San Jose, says people may be overreacting to the potential for problems.
The current rainy season has swollen the river and destroyed a bridge.
The MDC issued a statement last week warning that conditions could worsen this month as the rainy season brings steamy downpours to much of Zimbabwe, especially the eastern mountain forests.
The rainy season is fast approaching and there are still more than a million people sleeping on basketball courts and in riverbeds and hospital car parks beneath hastily constructed shelters and donated tents.
Like a drought-stricken city draining its reservoir during what should be the rainy season, the nation has been forced to tap its gasoline stockpiles this spring, leaving them well below average with the busy summer driving season still to come.
The rainy season next month will disrupt transport and so push up food prices, which a prolonged drought has already helped to inflate.
Brazilian authorities have been criticized for a lack of disaster planning, and for allowing people to build homes in areas known to become treacherous in the rainy season.
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