The Mehdees

About

The Mehdees

A family of four, a red 4x4, and a story about the day the rain went up.

The family drawn as stick figures: Dad in a navy cap and a red hoodie with the family car logo on the chest, Shahrin in an olive hijab, Inaaya in pink glasses and pigtails, and baby Hamza

The story

A family survival story

On a Sunday in Florida, at 9:41, the rain stops in midair and goes back up. Days later something is coming up from the Gulf, a few miles a day, pulling the clouds and the water toward it. The birds leave first. Then the phones drift and the networks fail. We pack the red 4x4 and drive north, trying to stay ahead of it.

It has the look of ink and watercolor, it is set in real places, and it is told the way a dad would tell it to a friend. It starts in Florida. Where it ends, we are still finding out.

Between episodes

The photography

Before the story there were the photographs. When the week allows, one of us slips out to the wetlands with a camera: herons and egrets, alligators at eye level, roses after rain. The photography now has a home of its own atRobin Mehdee Photography, where every photograph can be licensed or printed.

For the kids

The games

We built learning games for our own children and then put them out for everyone: maths, science and spelling for grades 1 to 5, plus all 195 flags. No accounts, no ads, nothing a child types leaves the device.

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