The Wettest place on the earth

The wettest place on earth 

Deep in Indian northeast villagers use grass for soundproofing their huts from deadening rain clouds are a familiar sight inside homes and a rust sign tells visitors that they are in the wettest place on the earth. 

Oddly enough lifelong residents of mawsynram a small cluster of hamlets in . Meghalaya state have little idea that their scenic home holds a Guinness record for the highest average annual rainfall of  11 , 873 millimetres 467 inches just thirty years ago mawsynram had no paved roads no running  water and no electricity making its six_ months long monsoon an insufferable experience for its mostly impoverished residents. Landslides still occur regularly ocking the only paved road connecting the hillside hamlets. Rainwater still seeps into the mud huts occupied by some villagers. And while most homes have electricity power cuts are quite common in place. Every winter the people of mawsynram spend months preparing for the we season  ahead anticipating non stop rain and no sunshine for several days at a time. They hence repair their bettered roofs. They cut and hoard firewood source of light and fuel for cooking. They buy and store food grains since few will venture out ship  during .