Newsday.com - Rains spoil good life for Chinese living in caves: "
GAOLING COUNTY, China -- The peasants here say it is wonderful to live in a cave, except during a torrential rainy season.
Several million people in the province live this way. It is not a throwback to Neanderthal times, though it is hardly luxurious. These caves, dug out of the bottoms of sturdy cliffs, are finished living spaces with plaster walls, brick floors, electricity, a front door, but also an undeniably musty smell."