# It's RAINING! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 26, 2001, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/70146 "2001-06-26T00:41:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [June 26, 2001, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/70146/1 "2001-06-26T00:41:11Z")
To most people, this wouldn’t be a big deal. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2001, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/70146/2 "2001-06-26T01:17:18Z")
Arrgh. I wish it would have rained yesterday, when I didn’t have anybody scheduled to cover any baseball games. This is highly disruptive. ---
**Author:** ![Pstarr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f19dbf/32.png) [@Pstarr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pstarr)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2001, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/70146/3 "2001-06-26T01:58:41Z")
I feel your glee Rasa. 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. Tony ---
**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:** [June 26, 2001, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/70146/4 "2001-06-26T02:20:21Z")
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. Off to play in the puddles again! ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2001, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/70146/5 "2001-06-26T02:32:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Pstarr \* > \*\*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. > \*\* If only a few women would drive around topless … ---
**Author:** ![SeaDiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@SeaDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDiver)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2001, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/70146/6 "2001-06-26T04:13:00Z")
I am SO glad I put my top back on before it started raining! ---
**Author:** ![Carina42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Carina42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carina42)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2001, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/70146/7 "2001-06-26T04:14:48Z")
**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 still miss California, though. ---
**Author:** ![Pstarr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f19dbf/32.png) [@Pstarr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pstarr)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2001, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/70146/8 "2001-06-26T04:27:52Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2001, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/70146/9 "2001-06-26T04:28:57Z")
It’s nice. 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. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2001, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/70146/10 "2001-06-26T04:31:37Z")
…It’s pouring, the old man is snoring… 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. I feel your happiness. Yay!! ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2001, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/70146/11 "2001-06-26T04:31:37Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2001, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/70146/12 "2001-06-26T04:44:03Z")
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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Doobieous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Doobieous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doobieous)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2001, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/70146/13 "2001-06-26T04:53:38Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2001, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/70146/14 "2001-06-26T04:57:42Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![Revedge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@Revedge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revedge)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2001, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/70146/15 "2001-06-26T05:24:09Z")
Hey, if you like rain so much, you would have loved to have been here in Houston a few weeks ago! 😛 The ark still hadn’t found dry land yet. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2001, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/70146/16 "2001-06-27T02:46:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by psycat90 \* > \*\*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. 🙂 \*\* I wouldn’t mind a few thunderstorms – on nights where I don’t have any outdoor sporting events that could be ruined, that is. Sure was cloudy today. The forecast said it would just be partly cloudy and not actually rain, but I was a little concerned nonetheless. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2001, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/70146/17 "2001-06-27T03:01:03Z")
Oh, do I miss thunderstorms too! 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. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2001, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/70146/18 "2001-06-27T03:04:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SeaDiver \* > \*\*I am SO glad I put my top back on before it started raining! \*\* _sigh_ I can’t _believe_ you guys let this one slide by without some kind of comment! I’m disappointed in you. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2001, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/70146/19 "2001-06-27T06:52:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rasa \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by SeaDiver \* > > \*\*I am SO glad I put my top back on before it started raining! \*\* > > _sigh_ > > I can’t _believe_ you guys let this one slide by without some kind of comment! I’m disappointed in you. \*\* 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! ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2001, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/70146/20 "2001-06-27T14:12:18Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/70146.md?page=2)