When it rains it pours

When it rains here, it pours.....Well it rained here for 30 minutes and as a result of having no drainage systems, puddles turn into lakes and create flooding.
Everything shuts down, schools, offices, etc. Unless you have 4 wheel drive,(which many do) it is almost impossible to drive down certain roads. One puddle/river was over the hoods of cars!!!! The sad thing is that none of the rain water is recycled and to think of many countries who suffer from draughts, it seems so wasteful. Anyways, I suppose the bright side is that we get a lot of holidays.