The pitch of the roof had been calculated with a view to the heavy seasonal rains(Caroline Alexander)
The Blue Nile rises in the mountains of Ethiopia, where seasonal rains cause the annual floods that inundate the Nile Valley with water and silt.
Every year farmers in the wet lowlands of Bangladesh face problems caused by seasonal rains. One of the most serious problems is the appearance of water weeds.
But the arrival of seasonal rains has pumped new life into Dolo, a river town on the Ethiopian border that's in an area that was considered a famine zone until last week.
Heavy seasonal rains and powerful storms continue to cause rising water levels in the Mekong River, which is also exacerbated by 4 back to back typhoons that hit the region.
