There must have been really big rains upstream to make such a difference.

"It seems like they're just waiting for us to wash away with the first big rain."

While the snakes are said not to venture to the beach, mosquitoes sometimes do, particularly after a big rain.

"Now that the big rains are beginning there will be much fever amongthe men."

"When do the big rains start up in the mountains?"

"I have to be in and out again before the big rains."

But he will attack, probably after the big rains of next year.

Residents here have done it for years when the big rains have come.

The following day a big rain in the hills flooded the creek and washed away their garden.

It would be perpetual night until the next big rain washed the ash from the skies.