Everyone likes a nice, hot, sunny day. In fact, a week or so of those is really awesome during the summer. However, when nice, hot summer days, become everyday, for months, with no rain, you have a drought. Then the sunny day becomes a curse and you, the person living through the drought, become delirious, embittered, angry at whatever God you like at what has occurred. Everything is dry, you start having to rethink how much water you're using, in fact every morsel is precious and wonderful and well, let's just say, a drought sucks. So, here are five thoughts you’ll have during the worst drought.

1. I Know How They Felt in Holes

It’s really hard to relate at times to good old Stanley Yelnats but when you’re experiencing a drought you feel solidarity with the character and his friends at the camp. Like that scene where the single, anorexic looking cloud goes by and everyone believes in it, yeah that happens during a drought. In fact I mourn for the characters, having to dig holes in such hard, unmovable ground, which brings me to my next point.

2. Why Does the Ground Feel Like Cement?

You’ll just walk outside and where you hope to feel soft yet sturdy ground when walking across your lawn you feel like you’re walking across the Target parking lot. Forget a picnic or maybe a barefoot walk across the lawn. In fact, why even bother lying in the grass, your kitchen floor is more comfortable (and cooler).

3. There Goes Anything Living

RIP to any hope of agricultural success. Actually RIP to anything alive in general, be it the smallest blade of grass to my mom’s flower garden to my hopes and dreams of having a flowing creek. The grass is prickly and yellow, the animals lethargic and dehydrated. Get used to scorched earth and sadness because that is what you’ll get.

4. Noah’s Flood Doesn’t Sound Too Bad

40 days and 40 nights of rain: BRING IT ON. You start to miss those nights of endless rain, puddles in your front lawn, the smell of earthworms in the morning after a night of rain. You start dreaming of being soaking wet, running to your car with only a magazine to protect you from the rain. In fact, you start to kind of wonder if you should build an ark and see if God blesses you for your faithfulness.

5. I’m Melting, But Then At Least I’ll Be Less Dry

Everyday you wake up and it’s the same old thing. You feel as if you are melting in the dry dusty heat. You get the sensation that your sweat is actually just your body melting away. You get a little nervous that the Wizard of Oz lied about the whole water melts you thing and that in reality this drought will be the death of you.