# God, I love the rain **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 22, 2002, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-love-the-rain/129134 "2002-09-22T15:43:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tygre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@tygre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tygre)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2002, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-love-the-rain/129134/21 "2002-09-23T22:47:56Z")
I love the rain. I live for cloudy, chilly days. I need to move to Seattle. ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2002, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-love-the-rain/129134/22 "2002-09-23T23:27:06Z")
I live in Seattle, and I don’t think it rains enough. I grew up on the coast of Washington, and I’m used to about 3 times Seattle’s rainfall. Even Seattlites think I’m weird when I say we’ve had too many sunny days for my taste. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-love-the-rain/129134/23 "2002-09-24T01:09:43Z")
> [@](#): > > I need to move to Seattle. Good luck. I’ve been trying to move there for a couple of years! ---
**Author:** ![patoupia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a3d4f5/32.png) [@patoupia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/patoupia)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-love-the-rain/129134/24 "2002-09-24T02:12:53Z")
Wow, your posts really take me back. Next to the down to earth folk, rain, thunder, and lightening are what I miss the most about Michigan. To walk in summer rain! When I first moved to LA the TV weatherman was going on and on about some storm. It was sprinkling out, and I asked my roommate where the storm was. She says “THIS is the storm!” What a crack up for a Midwesterner. Maybe we could set a time and all do a raindance. ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-love-the-rain/129134/25 "2002-09-24T03:34:34Z")
I’d certainly join you for the raindance, **patoupia** –we certainly (desperately) need it here in Southern California. I miss the rain so much ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Toddly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@Toddly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toddly)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-love-the-rain/129134/26 "2002-09-24T03:46:42Z")
As another Midwesterner in California,I miss a good rainstorm on a summer day. It would make things nice and green in the hills,and is very romantic. I guess though that I will have to settle for these 65-72 degree days for the time being. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-love-the-rain/129134/27 "2002-09-24T04:03:58Z")
I’d love to see some green hills here again. Right now I’m looking at the foothills from Glendora and the ridges are covered with walls of flame and smoke. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![TVGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@TVGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-love-the-rain/129134/28 "2002-09-24T04:16:01Z")
One of my fondest memories from childhood was waking up on cool, gray, rainy mornings next to the lake in Maine. The head of my bed was tucked right up under the eaves of our cottage. I’d wake ever so gently to the sound of the drops hitting the roof just inches above my head - yet I was warm and toasty under the covers. To this day, I’ll leave windows in my bedroom open on gray, rainy mornings and just lie there in the silence listening to the sound of the water splattering on the back steps, the garage, the shrubs outside the window … Ahhhhhh, contented 🙂 I live in a great place for this, too - all winter long. ---
**Author:** ![TVGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@TVGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-love-the-rain/129134/29 "2002-09-24T04:23:23Z")
One of my fondest memories from childhood was waking up on cool, gray, rainy mornings next to the lake in Maine. The head of my bed was tucked right up under the eaves of our cottage. I’d wake ever so gently to the sound of the drops hitting the roof just inches above my head - yet I was warm and toasty under the covers. To this day, I’ll leave windows in my bedroom open on gray, rainy mornings and just lie there in the silence listening to the sound of the water splattering on the back steps, the garage, the shrubs outside the window … Ahhhhhh, contented 🙂 I live in a great place for this, too - all winter long. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-love-the-rain/129134/30 "2002-09-24T04:25:58Z")
Another rain/thunderstorm fan here. In fact, I just bought a few enviromental cds to listen to at work, and the first one I grabbed was entitled **Echoes of Nature: Thunderstorm**. > [@](#): > > _Birds sing softly as a light rain falls throughout the woods. A distant rumble grows until the thunder’s fury pierces the forest calm. Rain increases as the thunder grows closer. When the storm retreats, the rain slackens as frogs and birds begin to sing._ Beats the fertilizer out of server-drone for background sound. ---
**Author:** ![TVGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@TVGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-love-the-rain/129134/31 "2002-09-24T04:31:31Z")
One of my fondest memories from childhood was waking up on cool, gray, rainy mornings next to the lake in Maine. The head of my bed was tucked right up under the eaves of our cottage. I’d wake ever so gently to the sound of the drops hitting the roof just inches above my head - yet I was warm and toasty under the covers. To this day, I’ll leave windows in my bedroom open on gray, rainy mornings and just lie there in the silence listening to the sound of the water splattering on the back steps, the garage, the shrubs outside the window … Ahhhhhh, contented 🙂 I live in a great place for this, too - all winter long. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-love-the-rain/129134/32 "2002-09-24T13:25:55Z")
We had quite a drought here this summer. Hardly any rain at all. Where are the rainy states? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-love-the-rain/129134/33 "2002-09-24T18:29:22Z")
It’s been a soggy day here in northeast Florida. I got soaked to the skin coming in from my car (I left my umbrella in my desk drawer…) The rain is supposed to continue into the evening and tomorrow. And who knows what Isidore and Lili may do to us. I’ll be glad to get home and take off the wet shoes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-i-love-the-rain/129134.md?page=1)