The rain.

This week @JonicaBradley's suggestion is to write about questions. Questions are never lacking in everyday life, there are so many questions to ask and after answering the first ones, more questions appear.

I would like to know if it’s in my country, Venezuela, where the weather seasons have changed. In my country there is a diversity of climates, we have a region in the Merida Andes that has snow at one time of the year.  I’m referring to the high areas in the mountains. Because there are also many mountains that have eternal snow, although some of them melt more frequently than before.

There are also regions where it rains all year round, in the Venezuelan Amazon region, and in the Delta Amacuro, for example. 

But in the central regions of the country, in the west, the plains and the east, the rains have receded. They have moved so far away that the people who plant in the fields have lost their crops. They think the rains are coming and so far they only have small storms.

In my eastern region it used to rain a lot, from May the rains would start until about August. Now we only get passing clouds, it doesn't rain anymore and there are only dry times.

What can I ask? Does it rain in your country the same way it does in mine? Or does it happen only in your region where you live? Has the climate changed these last years?

Utilities.

In my region as soon as the raindrops fall, which thank God are not constant, the electricity tends to go out quickly. The light sources on the power poles explode, they explode so loudly that it sounds like a bomb exploding and the noise of the roar is very frightening.

Therefore, the light goes out every time a storm passes and leaves its water discharge. But it’s not only when it rains that the power fails, it has become a habit that the power goes out when we least expect it, many times in a day or many times a week.

Does this happen the same way in your country or this is just a thing in mine?

Telephone service.

The telephones in our houses here are no good. The neighbors' phones don’t have their proper ring tone and the wi-fi doesn’t work, although many of my neighbors report that they continue to pay for their home phone service, the service is not even available. Not to mention, the private telephone service prices.

They have a plan that includes a thousand megabytes a month. But what happens? You pay for the service, turn on your phone and activate the function that you just purchased and in the first 15 minutes you have no connection with anyone or anything, you wait for 15 minutes more but it so happens that all of your megabytes were completely consumed. What do you think? Is this the same with your own private telephones?

The water service.

It’s unusual for water to run freely through the pipes in our homes. Not even for people living in private residences, because they have to regulate the output of their water in the tanks until the water service returns or until they buy another water truck, whichever comes first.

It’s a thing we have now. The water is cut off for 4 or 5 days and everyone at home must find a way to get this vital liquid. If you don't go out and get it, you have to deal with the consequences.

Is this something that happens in your own country too?

Gas service.

We have a country rich in gas production. There are places where there is direct gas service in homes and in other places it’s necessary to be supplied with gas cylinders. But both are suffering from the same problem, there is no gas.

Venezuela is one of the countries producing oil and its derivatives, but there is no more gasoline in the places that supply gas or gas for the vehicles that run on these petroleum derivatives.

People stand in long lines at the fuel pumps and then either they only get what the pumps are willing to give them or they just tell the owners of the vehicle that fuel has run out, this after having spent a whole sleepless night in a queue waiting to buy fuel. 

And so my dear readers, this happens with all the public services, with all the raw materials needed for the home or for transportation.  And I ask you… Does this also happen in your country or is it only in mine?

My country is a rich country. It has all the natural wonders that God could give it in creation, He gave it gold, coal, oil, gas, an Amazon, iron, minerals, black diamond, blue diamond, pearls, rivers, springs, what else can you tell me that I can tell you that my country does not have. But it also happens that it is a poor country.

Does this happen to you too? Tell me which of these needs you cannot cover in your country because it’s the same as mine.