This is a true story. It happened a few minutes ago. It happened when I watched.
8 :30 AM.
Dark outside. Clouds looming overhead. Windy.
8:31 AM.
It rains like a few hundred canine pranksters pissing over the house.
8:32 AM.
The rain stops as abruptly as it started.
8:33 AM.
Sunshine. Crisp day. Rain? What rain? When? Why is the ground wet? Must be the dogs.
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