El Nino came to Kenya in 1997-98 with devastating force. The rains that fell were not ordinary rains. Roads were swept away. Bridges collapsed. The Rift Valley lakes, already swollen, overflowed their banks. Communities that had lived beside Lake Baringo and Lake Nakuru for generations watched the water swallow their homes. The disaster killed hundreds, displaced hundreds of thousands, and caused economic losses that Kenya spent years recovering from. It was a reminder that the land that had cradled humanity was also capable of reclaiming what it had given.