What a welcome rain this must have been.

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A Somali Kenyan man prays as another washes his hands in flood waters after a rain storm in the settlement of Dela in northern Kenya near the Somali border. The traditional way of life for Kenya's roughly three million nomads is rapidly giving way under the pressures of increasingly severe and frequent droughts, coupled with a rapidly rising population. Oct. 22, 2009