I hate that a decade of living with near-constant rainfall and annual hurricanes in Mobile, Ala., has ruined thunderstorms for me. I’m always on the lookout for leaky roof shingles or dodgy tree branches instead of enjoying the sound of rain hitting the back deck or watching the lightning.
Stupid Gulf Coast.
Entirely Adequate 
If it weren’t for rain (and thunderstorms), Earth would be like Mars, and we would have remained unenlightened primordial pudding.
So, wait, rain = enlightenment and evolution? That’s a post hoc, ergo propter hoc logical fallacy. Nothing personal. I just wanted to break out my knowledge of argumentative technique and latin in the same scenario.
Shaggerty, how can you live someplace where it never snows? Wait. Have you ever experienced snow before?
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc ? Hardly. Had you not been drunk with a lust for latin, you would have noticed that I didn’t mention jello or dirt. Everyone knows that it takes jello, dirt, AND rain to enlighten primordial pudding.
Some would even say it also takes a dash of salt, but that’s just bloody dumb.