All this rain.....

Whenever it rains endlessly for days, the Armageddon side of my brain comes to the fore and I wonder if there will be a time in the not-too-distant future when the sunshine will be a distant memory and a generation of people will be born that know nothing but rain. While in this mood, I'm always minded of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QWmahMdeGU Those readers of a certain age may remember it. The film and the images have stuck with me since I saw it once as a child but it wasn't until I did some investigating the other night that I found out what it was called (God Bless Youtube). Apparently, the poignancy stuck with many other kids who saw it in the 80's as it is one of the most requested film-related questions on Metafilter. It must resonate with computer-literate nostalgic people in their mid-30's: who are scared of all this rain..... If you have a spare 25 minutes, watch the film and remember that the rest of us who are nostalgic about it saw it but once, maybe at school, about 25 years ago yet it stuck with us despite the dark setting and lack of special effects. Here's the short story it's based on. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Summer_in_a_Day There's a word version of it at the bottom of the wikipedia page, it's only 2 & a half pages long. Ray Bradbury also wrote this story - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sound_of_Thunder - which has the accolade of being the most reprinted science fiction story of all time. I read it as a youngster at primary school and remembered loving the story. It was made into an unsuccessful movie in 2005 that I haven't seen yet.