Since you've been gone...

The Australian Government, Canberra has issued this statement:

We would like to send our utmost appreciation to a gentleman called Adam Barton, before his visit to our country - Australia and especially Queensland was in a drought for coming up seven years. Scientists believe the water would have run out in a couple of weeks (others believe this is just a scare tactic on posters in hostels to discourage backpackers from taking showers longer than two minutes) if something was not done. Then as fate would have it, Mr Barton graced us with his presence and sure enough the rains came with him.

Weathermen around the world have been baffled by this - whether it was stowed in his rucksack, brought on by the rain dancing or from one of those many 'out of body' experiences he seemed to have twice daily (some people believe these "naps" were in fact visits to the rain Gods) either way we thank you from the bottom of our hearts, the water supplies have been replenished and we now have enough water to get by another seven years.