It's only a bit of rain, grow up and get on with it!

Growing up in Manchester, you get used to the rain.

Living in Houston, you'd think they'd get used to the rain.

Ok, so early summer it might not rain for three months, but is that really long enough to forget how to drive in it?

Whenever it rains, the entire City of Houston comes to a stand still.

During the first rain after a long dry spell, I've seen virtually everyone in the office just stand up and walk over to the window and stare blankly outside as if they're all in a trance.

You also get people who will sit and look out of the window for over an hour just waiting for it to stop long enough for them to make it to their car.

People are actually surprised that I even contemplate leaving when that wet watery stuff is just falling from the sky.

I tell them what I'm going to tell you know.

You don't get far where I'm from being scared to walk in the rain.

Try having no car and having to walk to the nearest bus stop, and then stand there with no shelter alone with the elements hoping that a bus, any bus turns up any minute. Add in the fact that it's below freezing and you can no longer feel your feet and you might get an idea of what it's like in Manchester. In the summer.

Muppets!