Drainage Tube

The grey sky screams silently above, breaking apart the boring day with tears that turn into raindrops, drenching the earth in heavenly emotion, making all of the little unaware people a little less happy and a little more sensitive for a time. You remark how high the clouds seem, so far out of reach, while your companion disagrees, saying that she can feel them weighing upon her shoulders as she shivers in the rain. A downspout, downpipe, roof drain pipe, or leader is a vertical pipe for carrying rainwater from a rain gutter to ground level. There the water is directed away from the building's foundation and to a sewer, rainwater harvesting, or let into the ground through seepage. The bottom of the downspout often has an elbow which directs the water away from the building.This is to protect a building's foundation from water damage. Rain chains are alternatives to a downspout. They are widely used in Japan. Their purpose is largely decorative, to make a water feature out of the transport of rainwater from the guttering downwards to a drain or to a storage container. Rainwater is sometimes collected for household usage. They can be found on temples. Rain chains are typically either a series of metal cups, chained together with a hole in the bottom of each, or chain links that span vertically. Rain water run-off gets distributed from a rooftop gutter downward through the rain chain.