But it's a mixed blessing. Rain washes the air clean, so you can take deep breaths without worrying about the diesel particles and the smog going deep into your lungs, and without coughing. The rain washes the streets clean, and the ubiquitous small yards and millions of houses and cars and miles of freeways, all clean, as clean as it ever gets.
But the rain also washes all the dog poop and pesticides and motor oil drippings and surface trash down the storm drains and into the poor suffering sea. So the ocean absorbs all this pollution, or doesn't quite, and I feel sorry for it, and for the fish and sea lions and all the creatures of the deep.
I can picture them out there now, a whale and a dolphin talking:
Man, I love to see the rain sparkle on the surface up there.
Yeah, but don't drink this crap.
I know, it's bad for your health.
When will those stupid humans learn?
That they need us as much as we need them?
Probably never.
Yeah, they never have before.
Again, it might not be that bad. We have done a lot to clean up the water, but not enough.
© Copyright 2011, Roger R. Angle
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