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Finally

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It’s raining.

This is the first serious rain we’ve had in months. If you only looked at the freeway medians in south Florida, you’d think you were in Arizona. I have brown patches on my lawn where the irrigation is inadequate, even though we water on the days prescribed by the local fluid commissars. I think we’ve gotten an inch so far, with more forecast for the next day or so.

I hear about people who move to the Pacific northwest and get depressed at days of endless clouds and rain. I’m the opposite. In California, near the beach, it would often be cool and foggy all day (with sunshine just a mile or so to the east) and I loved it. Down here in the sunshine state, I tend to go into a funk at the prospect of yet another depressing day of Sol unhindered. Even though it’s not particularly cold, I think I’ll make a pot of soup and revel.

[Update a while later]

Wow, it’s really coming down. This is where the expression comes from, “when it rains, it pours.” Unfortunately, it will quickly saturate and then run off into the canals and ocean. And looking at the radar, the bulk of the activity is offshore, giving water to the fish, who probably don’t notice much. It would be better if this was happening over the lake.

9 thoughts on “Finally”

  2. “Unfortunately, it will quickly saturate and then run off into the canals and ocean.”

    We had better luck a couple of weeks ago with 8 inches of snow in the “sunny South” of central Virginia, since it melted over a few days and soaked in.

    Guess we should thank Gerbil Wormening for our snow and your rain….

    Seriously, I’m thankful we’re both getting much-needed precipitation – hopefully the present cooling will bring some more.

  3. Well it’s warm and only partly cloudy (that is, mostly sunny) up here in Orlando. It’s been dry as dust for weeks now. I’m with you on the depressing effects of constantly blazing sun. Whatever is the opposite of SAD, I have it.

  4. I’m with you on the depressing effects of constantly blazing sun. Whatever is the opposite of SAD, I have it.

    And yet you’ve chosen to live here all your life since adulthood…

  5. “When it rains, it pours” originated, I thought, a marketing slogan for Morton’s salt – on the grounds that it contains an anti-caking agent such that the salt still pours even when it’s damp out.

    I think your (quite common) usage of it is derivative of that original, rather than the reverse – but I have no available evidence.

  6. Living in the SF Bay Area I get thoroughly sick of blue skies all summer long. By August I just want to scream at the prospect of yet another clear and sunny day.

  7. Living in the SF Bay Area I get thoroughly sick of blue skies all summer long.

    But you can go into the city, or over to the coast, and get cool air and fog.

  8. Having lived in the Pacific Northwest for about five years now (in the Eastside, the suburbs of Seattle only partially tainted by proximity), I can say that it doesn’t really rain a lot here. At least, not in any way I would really call rain. It is frequently cloudy, that is true, but the clouds, at least since I’ve lived here, have not often been accompanied by rain. Occasionally there will be a few days in a row where it drizzles every so often, but there has almost never been anything like the rainstorms I would get when I lived in North Florida.

    One of the ways that they say you can differentiate a native of the Pacific Northwest from a visitor is to watch who carries umbrellas. If anyone’s using an umbrella for anything more than an actual (and very rare) downpour, they’re probably just visiting, or new to the area.

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