Look, making rain is easy.
All you have to do is fill a PVC pipe with plastic pop can rings and a few handfuls of rice or beans or something like that and seal up each end. And if my experiences with various youth groups have taught me anything, then you can rest assured that the flood gates are going to open up after a few shakes of that stick that’s probably going to end up in the garbage.
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