Rain

Damascus Gate this morning

It started to rain last night as forecast. We had been saying that there's too little rain this winter. Well the rains have come but we don't know for how long or if it'll be enough to sustain us for the whole year.

It's been switching from showers to drizzle the past 24 hours. And strangely it's not as cold as we expected. It's 12 degrees now. Rather comfortable. The only problem is when you need to go out ... the streets are very slippery and everyone struggles to stay on their feet. I myself nearly fell 5 times on my way home last night. A lady in front of me slipped and landed on the ground. I wonder why the municipality insists on paving our walkways with slippery sandstone instead of other material. Imagine the number of injuries each rainy season. These are avoidable accidents. 

Slippery stones

The Chinese New Year is round the corner. Can't say our asian community is looking forward to it. We had a very bad year of the dragon ... war after war; countless tragedies and deaths. The snake doesn't look too promising. We're cautious and not too optimistic.