I’m a native East Coaster, born and raised in Rhode Island, for those of you I haven’t mentioned this to a bazillion times. I moved to the Bay Area in California in December.
I haven’t seen rain in well over a month, probably two even. I guess that’s normal, the summers are really dry. But you really don’t realize how much something as simple as the rain is a part of your life until it’s gone. I miss the sound of the rain at night. I miss the smell of the earth when it’s wet. I miss the way the world looks when it stops raining and the sun comes out.
So excuse me for a while… I’m going outside to splash about and feel the rain in my face.
Being from Chicago I miss the ole’ thunderstorms and tornado warnings/watches. But as I look out my window, down at Highway 237…I see a whole lot of people that have no idea what to do when it rains. It’s like a parking lot down there.
Oh and one other thing…do you think that they could at least announce this sort of thing beforehand? I have been driving around topless for 2 months now and all of a sudden something like this happens. My poor Jeep is soaking wet.
Enjoy it while it happens though…probably won’t see it again until November.
I’m sorry Snooooopy, I’ll try to schedule my glee so as not to coincide with your baseball games next time! We’ll have to coordinate our schedules better.
And Pstarr, they said on the weather this morning it might rain… dontcha listen? Or have you become a true Californian and assume it’s not gonna rain? (By the way, I had to re-read that to make sure you meant your JEEP was topless…) I hear ya on the traffic thing though. I work in Mountain View and there was hella traffic trying to get onto 85 from 101. It’s just rain, folksies! Nothing to see here… move along!
I amused my coworkers though because I was so excited about it raining. I guess I’ll try not to get used to it.
Rasa, it’s all a matter of perspective! I moved from Scotland to No. Ca. (Bay area, then Santa Cruz, then Willits.) I loved that there was “very little” rain compared to Scotland. I’ve been in Colorado since 1985, and really miss the rain. Must be a dry summer out there, if you haven’t had rain in a month or more. I’m moving to Michigan in August, so my dominant rain paradigm will shift again.
I admit it. I have become soft. I don’t even bother watching the weather any more.
The rain traffic doesn’t bother me, my commute from San Jose, through Alviso to Santa Clara is all of 3 miles long. With no traffic. So it’s more of a spectator sport for me.
And yes…the Jeep was topless, not I. Although she is a beauty, all shiny and blue and curves that you wouldn’t believ…ahem. I think I am going to go hose off.
Tony
I get so sick of the rain in the winter (for all of you non-Californians, our jacuzzi overflows regularly in the winter from so much rain), it’s nice to have a little dose in the summer.
I missed Thunderstorms when I lived way up in the north. I am so very happy now whenever there is one that I will open the windows and listen to the thunder and dance around like an idiot.
Well, the game that I thought was going to be rained out was actually played, so I’m not quite so miffed. Who woulda thought those Babe Ruth kids would be so hardy?
I miss the rain. I really miss thunderstorms. What I would give for some wicked lightning.
It didn’t really rain up this way (Santa Rosa), it was a very, very slight drizzle. Oh well, there’s always November.
The last time we had Lightning here around Monterey was a couple of years ago when there was a very very rare august thunderstorm that set Big Sur on fire. At least Mother Nature could have sent some lightning and set the hills here on fire!
I love rain! I am at my happiest when it rains, and saddest when it is hot and dry and sunny (I live here in the SF Bay Area, too, BTW, so I am most pleased with this mini-storm). If I thought I could actually find a job up in Seattle, I’d be there in a heartbeat…
When I first got here in January, I was in Oakland with a friend, hanging out at his friend’s loft. It was pouring rain, so hard we thought the skylights were going to crack. All of a sudden we heard this hideous “CRAAAAAAACCCKKK!” and we fully expected to hear shattering glass. But it was a thunderstorm! He was so excited to see lightning that we stood on the roof like idiots in the cold and rain, watching the lightning and feeling the thunder shake the roof. I miss that.
As you can see, I had already noticed this play on words before she even posted it. Mentioning it again would have been show-offy. Besides, I figured if I made any smart remarks about SeaDiver, she’d whomp my ass but good!
It finally started here with the “Florida Afternoon Thundershowers” thing. Yesterday we had some really violent storms, but I’m not complaining, 'cause I love the rain, and we need it anyway, really, really badly.
