Word: wet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There has been a water shortage since a comet hit earth thirty years prior. The bad guys are the Department of Water and Power, and they control the flow of the precious commodity. The head of the DWP, and major wet blanket, Kesslee, is played with exacting villainy by Malcolm McDowell. McDowell is, of course, the arch enemy of our beloved rebelle Tank Girl (as well as of any actor trying to get a bad guy role these days...
...Romalis sees no difference after what happened to him last November. "I was just sitting in the kitchen, and I felt a kind of whump underneath," he recalls. "The first shot hit me and knocked me slowly off my chair. I felt that my left thigh was warm and wet. But I had no pain. Then there was another shot, and I realized I had been shot. I looked down, and I had a huge hole in my thigh that I could put my fist in. I was bleeding very, very heavily. I thought this...
...Roddas finally found refuge with strangers in a house on higher ground--and remembered their stranded cats. So one of their rescuers put on his wet suit, paddled his surfboard back to the Roddas' house, wrapped the indignant animals in towels and ferried them out perched on the front of the surfboard...
...wind cost 15 lives and up to $2 billion in damage, as some of the country's richest farmlands turned to stew. In Monterey County particularly, Nature brought herself to ruin: winds wrecked the orchards; floods loosened the vines and dragged crops out of the fields, which were too wet for tractors to plant new crops. Bees stopped pollinating, leaving peach trees and cherry trees barren. Even the cows were troubled, growing stingy with milk when their feet were wet and their routines disrupted...
...maximum rain enjoyment wear Tevas, or another waterproof pair of shoes, and shorts--jeans stay wet forever, particularly when rolled up and stuffed in a backpack. Otherwise, relax, sink your toes into the mud and start singin' in the rain...