"When the rains failed for a third year in a row, it put an end to their ability to stay on the land."
When the year began, we did not know the rains in east Africa would fail.
The rain is failing so fast and hard it makes a hazy curtain.
If the rain fails to arrive you can simply switch your systems back on.
Even after two years when the rain failed, there are babies being born only suffer and die a painful death.
It had, nevertheless, complied with the order except during 1995-96 when rains failed.
It was still gray, of course, but no rain was failing.
The rains failed ten years in a row, and heat blistered the land.
Frequent rain failed to stop the contestants, who practiced in any open space they could find.
In a dry region, they can feed themselves even if the rains fail.