You Will Know You Are In Los Angeles If You Are Wet
That's it, I'm building an ark.
Last weekend it rained like a mother in SoCal. Early this morning it started again, and it's expected to continue until Monday at least. Meteorologists are predicting another five inches of water will be dumped on the city this weekend (fifteen in the mountains). I heard on the radio that this is the wettest start to the rainy season in forty years. If it seems like I'm whining about the rare precipitation in this, the most beautiful climate in the contiguous United States... yes. Yes I am. And you'd be joining me if you were here.
Needless to say, this is a bad week to get quotes on replacing one's gutters.
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Here it's a Deep Freeze (tm) (cue ominous organ music). The Seattle area is getting all sorts of snow, even in the lowlands. I wish we were getting some here in downtown Bellevue.. oh well. I miss the snow.
It makes me laugh, honestly, to see that they're doing weather updates on the TV every half-hour tracking the system coming in from the coast (with their Double Dopplar (tm)!), and schools announcing closures the night before because there's 2 inches of snow on the ground. Oh no, we have a recordable wind chill! It's below freezing outside! Everybody rush to the store to stock up on supplies, get chains for the car, and all that business. We don't even have our heat turned on, since our computers pump out quite enough of it. Ah well, I digress..
I'd be out dancing in the rain, myself. :) Then again, I don't think I'd move to a desert if I had the choice. I know I'm in the minority though. :)
Pussy.
I would feel sorry for you, except that when I was in LA, I saw a weather forecast for ONE HALF of an inch of rain, and I saw the locals HIDE from this DELUGE! It was like the rain we get here in Virginia, which is just ocean sweat or something, when everyone looks at each other and asks, "Is it raining or not?"
At least you don't have to shovel it, as they say.
Boy, do I feel for you. (my blog entry on the topic will go up once LJ maintenance is done). Is your road still passable?
Amazing how it can go from so horribly scary yesterday to so fluffy and sunny today. It's enough to make me almost forget how miserable it was, although my property damage is sure to remind me.
Andy, Peter, and Chuck, believe me, you have no idea.
Here in Connecticut, we're enjoying 17 degree (F) weather, but at least it's a "dry cold."