So where were we?   Oh! the rain.  So as we waited at a stop light on 5th south I watch a homeless man make a shelter out of three large city trash cans and a tarp.  He sat under the tarp and was prepared for the rain.  He didn't know it would come in 4 minutes because he didn't have a phone.  I worried about the lightning for him more than the rain.

Richard slept outside in lots of rain in Vietnam.  He told me the thunder would wake him up and he thought it was artillery being fired.  Sometimes he had shelter but most times he was just sleeping on the dirt.  So what to be afraid of there?  rain, lightening, poisonous centipedes, mortars, Vietcong soldiers, grandmothers, children ( with grenades).

Agent Orange.