It's the end times.  It rained twice in July (that I noticed) and now even in August.

By 2015 we'll be living in stilt houses, Kolkata style.  Monsoon, anyone?

I have lived in SoCal going on 7 years now and love the place and people here. But what I will never, ever understand is the unfounded near psychotic fear the natives have of rain.

Its OK, its the same stuff that comes out of your shower, it won't kill you. It won't melt your car – drive normally, no need to drive 30 MPH under the limit. If you get wet, don't call 911, you will dry.

I love the rain in LA, I walk in it and feel like the Omega-man – the whole place is mine alone. I walked OFW once from Washington to Brooks and back during a November rain, and literally saw 3 other people.  It cleans our fair city up, washes bumpiss, vomit and grime off of everything so the city smells fresh, at least for a little while.

Buy an umbrella and go for a stroll the next time it rains, learn to love its moist gloomy embrace, inhale the invigorating ozone just before it starts, and say Hi when I see you out there!

Rain=life. Peace!

bythec said:
 

Be kind!  We've got dry heat, no giant insects, no hurricanes or tornados, no frozen pipes, no need to shovel snow off driveways…

You forgot earthquakes, that as of this point aren't reliably forecastable. And most of the rain I've seen in California falls into the "sprinkles" category.

Chessy Peake said

bythec said
Chessy,  

Come on--you know the song!!

And besides, since it rarely rains (but we do have fires) we get mud slides, the streets are coated with oil and we sloash around--and it can actually be a little dangerous.

You east-coasters get summer showers, but until the weather went wacko, we pretty much had a rainy season that ran from the end of Novermber through the end of January.  Summer rain is unusual for L.A.

 

Be kind!  We've got dry heat, no giant insects, no hurricanes or tornados, no frozen pipes, no need to shovel snow off driveways…

I am with you all the way – and you forgot to mention we don't have swarms of blood-sucking disease transmitting mosquitoes or biting green eyed flies ("deerflies" – they really hurt). I was backeast last month and a new import, asian tiger-mosquitoes, have taken over. Unlike the native ones which tend bite and dusk and dawn, these things feed all day long. Oh, and that other joy of real weather living: black ice, which forms on patches of road and is invisible to drivers. I'll take our situation any day of the year!

here's a great way to deal with all those pesty flying insects:

http://www.bugasalt.com/