Drouth

He listened to her licking lap. Ham and eggs, no. No good eggs with this drouth.

While the drouth is a most regrettable occurrence, the resultant scarcity of the pests is one compensation that enables Ste. Genevievans to enjoy an occasional evening on lawn or front porch and to feel the full meaning of the old saw that says “It’s an ill wind that blows nobody good.”

Name other great catastrophes this world has seen, the floods, the fires, the earthquakes, plague or famine or drouth.