Its raining, its pouring

When it rains here it really really rains, it is amazing and I definitely know why they call it monsoon season and not just the rainy season. The monsoons haven't actually started but now it rains every 4 or 5 days - a huge increase over the past few months. From September - April I think it rained 5 times total, definitely in October, November and December I didn't see one drop of rain.
When the monsoons come we will get rain probably every day, that will start at the end of this month. I'll be happy for the rain because I know that it is critical for the crops and the country in general; and also because it temporarily washes away the dirt, for about an hour, but it is so intense it is crazy (and the monsoons also mean the humidity which is kind of a bummer).
How intense? Well if it rains in the middle of the night it wakes me up every time it is so loud. I know, you are thinking you have heard rain that loud before - but probably not every time it rains. And it happens so suddenly; you are just minding your business and then whoosh, it is pouring, and it usually lasts about an hour or so. I guess in the areas of the country with the heavy monsoons it can last a few hours each time - crazy, huh.
And the ground is so dry that it doesn't absorb quickly so the roads get flooded, but once the rain stops things get back to normal pretty quickly.
It is amazing to me how people here just deal with the rain; I do too really. At first you freak out - ahhh, it is flooding! - then you realize that you just have to deal with it and really, it is just rain. So the bottom of your pants get wet, and you really have to watch your step so you don't slip, and you'll probably get stuck in even more traffic, but eventually the rain stops and an hour later it is dry and it is like it never rained at all.
I find the weather pattern here and how people live their lives around such extremes; rain every day for 2 months then no rain for 4 months; fascinating. Maybe if I grew up here I would have been a meteorologist??? One thing is for sure, with rain that intense umbrellas are kind of futile, you are just going to get wet.