It's Raining, It's Pouring

Ok, how many people live in Southern Cali?
Is it pissin' down rain where you live too? I know we needed it desperately but why, oh why couldn't it have rained on the weekend when I could stay cuddled up on the couch?

We just called to cancel the movers who were going to put all our stuff into storage today. Our back yard is a river. The flood plain at the bottom of the hill is a lake. I am cuddled up on a futon. Ah, the wonders of working from home!

I like the rain though. Even if I must drive through it. I love it. I'm the only bright, shiny, happy face in traffic. I splash in puddles, I splash puddles on people. So fun.

Don't get me wrong. I LOVE rain. Just would prefer to be home when it's happening.

I bet the weather people there are jumping for joy... When I was in your lovely area visiting, they seemed kinda depressed about reporting another lovely sun shiney day..Every day.

It is funny how the meterologists all jump at the sight of a "condensation in the east." They go buck wild with the gestures, swirling their arms around as if a typhoon is approaching, pulling out charts stalking down that inferno of Mother Nature's wrath.

And then it's a little cloud fart.

Don't forget snow in the South. OMG! Run to the store and buy out all the bread and milk! It's gonna be another blizzard like the one of 1993!

And then...

Nothin.

I just saw The Day After Tomorrow and you better be careful. All the signs are here.

Soon super cold air will be sucked down from the upper atmosphere and we will all freeze to death. (unless you have a few books laying around, in which case you will be fine)

LOL! I've got plenty of books, but I would not let you burn them. Use the furniture instead.

Or Spam. The multi-functional, miracle meat.

Let's burn bras instead!

I'm in Los Angeles.
Saw plenty of rain so far.
Still can't figure out where my umbrella went....


*waiting for the inevitible "Rain? You Californians don't know what Rain is!" post from the UK or Seattle

I try to stay off the roads whenever it rains down here. People just don't know how to drive when it does. It very rarely rains down here though. I still wear shorts year round.

My street is nearly flooded. The neighborhood kids are trying to skim board in the puddles, I kid you not.

Olympia,

<<*waiting for the inevitible "Rain? You Californians don't know what Rain is!" post from the UK or Seattle >>

No, we are too modest to boast about our extra-special rain that Californians just can't possibly imagine. We wouldn't dream of mentioning raindrops so large they could stun a cat. Our lips are sealed about the special nose-plugs we have to wear, to prevent the splash-back from the sidewalk entering our nostrils and causing serious damage. I will remain quite quiet about my collection of perforated umbrellas. I won't say anything about the fact that if you look up during a bad rainstorm you risk instant drowning. Or indeed the fact that during our last rainstorm I looked out of my back window and saw a blue whale swimming past.

We prefer to remain modest about these things, and allow others to talk about their mild humidity.

Well... we had a bit of heavy wind and rain for a day or so. Now it is cloudy but hardly any rain. And this is supposed to be the rainy season! Before the aforementioned day, weather was pretty much still stuck in summer mode
God, I love living in Portugal. Hasn't snowed here in over 50 years.

You're funny

You speak the truth. I visited the UK awhile back and the weather blew my umbrella apart.

Durring the same trip, I noticed- durring light rain- that the locals pretty much ignored it. No umbrellas, no dash for cover, no nothing. Light rain in Los Angeles is another story. Traffic snarls, "Stormwatch" is the top local news story and all the out of towners complain "no one here knows how to drive in the rain!"