# Happy Rain Dance **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 24, 2001, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-rain-dance/95074 "2001-11-24T22:26:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [November 24, 2001, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-rain-dance/95074/1 "2001-11-24T22:26:17Z")
😃 😃 😃 I love the rain. It’s coming down nicely here in Los Hideous. Woohoo! I got to wear my Gore-Tex™ jacket and drive with my wipers on and walk in the rain and stand in line at the cinema (yeah, I’m going to see _Harry Potter_ in about an hour) and watch the raging gutters. Too bad I don’t have more time before the movie. I’d make a nice pot of Earl Grey tea. I like rain. 😃 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2001, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-rain-dance/95074/2 "2001-11-24T22:32:58Z")
Me too. Rain is fun. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2001, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-rain-dance/95074/3 "2001-11-25T00:25:17Z")
I lost my rain jacket a few weeks ago, and now all I have to wear outside when it’s raining is one lousy sweatshirt. Fortunately, I only have to walk to the dining hall and back today. Rainy days like this should be spent cuddled up with a mug of hot chocolate and a good book, though a computer with access to the SDMB is alos acceptable. ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2001, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-rain-dance/95074/4 "2001-11-25T21:22:30Z")
Oh man, I loved that rain yesterday. I was stuck at work, and it was just sooooo slow (who wants to go to an outdoor mall when it’s pouring?). I loved watching it dump buckets on Pasadena. ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2001, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-rain-dance/95074/5 "2001-11-25T21:40:35Z")
I know I’ve mentioned this elsewhere on the Board, but when I lived in the Bay Area this summer, the _strangest_ thing to me was the lack of rain in the summer. To me, coming from the East Coast, summer is synonymous with sudden downpours a couple times a week. Not so in NorCal. It rained only once between like… April and when I left in August. I went outside and played in the puddles I was so happy to see the rain. I guess it just goes to show how you can take something as simple as rain for granted. ---
**Author:** ![hegel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cab0a1/32.png) [@hegel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hegel)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2001, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-rain-dance/95074/6 "2001-11-25T22:12:13Z")
Rain only looks good whilst I’m inside. I had to walk in it the other day, sans umbrella. Not fun. Left me all wet. ---
**Author:** ![Doobieous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Doobieous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doobieous)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2001, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-rain-dance/95074/7 "2001-11-26T03:42:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rasa \* > \*\*I know I’ve mentioned this elsewhere on the Board, but when I lived in the Bay Area this summer, the _strangest_ thing to me was the lack of rain in the summer. To me, coming from the East Coast, summer is synonymous with sudden downpours a couple times a week. Not so in NorCal. It rained only once between like… April and when I left in August. I went outside and played in the puddles I was so happy to see the rain. > > I guess it just goes to show how you can take something as simple as rain for granted. \*\* Pff, you talk like we never get rain here :). ALL of our rain here in CA south of say…humboldt comes during the winter time. ANyway, we got quite a downpour yesterday, i could hear the wind blowing, and the rain pelting my window. It made me quite happy to hear it. I think it’s supposed to rain again tomorrow (monday).yay! Rain! ---
**Author:** ![Spit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@Spit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spit)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2001, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-rain-dance/95074/8 "2001-11-26T11:40:59Z")
I live in central Virginia, and until yesterday we hadn’t had rain for a couple of months. I have never seen it so dry. Quite literally, ponds are puddles now. So please, everyone in Cali… 1. 2. 3. Take a deep breath, and blow that cloud east. * * * Plato? Aristotle? Socrates? Morons! ~I remember running through the wet grass, falling a step behind… -Better Than Ezra