Listening practice: When rain falls in a drought

In England, rain and flood alerts have not ended a drought. A weekly update covering August twenty-first to twenty-seventh says that seventy-one percent of England's land area is still classed as being in drought. Yet on August twenty-seventh, heavy rain moving across the country produced more than forty flood alerts. How can both things be true? High School English Listening Practice. The answer begins with time: a storm can last for hours, but a water shortage can build for months.