A plague on both your houses!
And I miss you... Like the deserts miss the rain... went the 90s track from Everything But The Girl.
Desert rains also bring chaos. An abundance of rain leads to an abundance of foliage, which encourages breeding of locusts.
These have wreaked havoc around the Horn of Africa.
A "small" swarm contains about 40 million insects, and they can eat as much food in a day as 35 000 people.