Tag: arid climates

Let it rain. Let it . . . Hey, it's raining!

On By Alfredo LanierIn Uncategorized3 Comments

I've always believed in the power of the written word but I had no idea. Since posting my yearly epistle a week ago about the lack of rain, we've had an inch of precipitation over two nights.Late Tuesday afternoon the southeast skies had darkened—auspiciously or ominously depending on one's point of view—and lightning sliced the …

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Let it rain. Let it rain. Let it rain.

On By Alfredo LanierIn Uncategorized19 Comments

Very rapid housing development and dwindling water resources may soon become San Miguel's next challenge Conscious that water is a scarce commodity in this semi-arid part of the world, when we built our house we included three cisterns to collect rainwater from our roofs. The side-by-side cisterns are located in the back of the house, in the space created by …

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