Once upon a time there was a little cloud with a problem and his name was Stevie. Stevie’s issue was that he rained up instead of down. He was no friend to farmers or anything that needed rain on the Earth, but…
…all the satellites in orbit loved him. They would go out of their way to orbit through Stevie’s rain to wash off all the dirt and grime from their jobs around the planet. So that worked out OK for him, until one day when Stevie realized his water reserves were getting low.
He called Windmaster Dan on his cloud cell phone and requested a wind push to be over the ocean so he could evaporate some and grow larger. Windmaster Dan sent a strong wind right away that pushed Stevie over the Pacific Ocean, but…
…he ended up stalling over the Sahara Desert. This was the worst place for a cloud to be, and Stevie got smaller until there was only a single drop of him left. He panicked and called the Cloud Emergency Hotline, and they sent a Weather Ambulance out to him right away.
The Weather Ambulance sprayed a fine mist and increased Stevie back to normal size in no time, and they blew him out over the Atlantic Ocean to boot. All was right in Stevie’s world until 31 days later when he got a bill for $12 million from Cloud Emergency Services.
Stevie of course couldn’t pay this, and he cried and cried, and of course when a cloud cries they shrink… Fortunately, one of the orbiting satellites spotted Stevie crying. It huddled together with all its orbit-mates and decided to do something to help out…