House Boats: Worldbuilding

It's raining! The skies have opened up and the ten-year rain begins. We are all waiting to see how our houseboats float. We're a little bit nervous. This is the first time that we'll get to check them, and once the flood starts to lift the houses, we won't have much of a second chance. We've checked and tested, as best we can on a desert planet where water is strictly rationed and we have been warned that trying to haul our houses to a communal pool to test them would likely cause damage itself. Our house boats were never designed to be hauled. Anyway, the thirsty earth would drink away the water in the pool in very little time and the sun would boil it away, and whatever extra humidity it added to the town would cause an environmental disruption as nature reacted as though the floods had started early. None of us want that. It would violate the very strict terms of our charter, not to mention the principles that we have

Inspiration: Kids playing at the Riverview Cafe, chanting, "It's raining, it's raining!"
Story potential: Medium
Notes: I like the idea of the desert-to-flood. Would change the voice to sound less ... middle-class American, though, but maybe that's only in my head.