STORM WATCH 2007
Yes, today if did something it has not done in Los Angeles for 160 days; it rained.
Rain here is an even that is only second to earthquakes in the amount of news coverage of them. More perhaps, because there are days of fretful forecasts: will it hit? Where? How much? Will this affect to burn areas? Will there be mudslides?
Angelenos famously do not know how to cope with the rain. I have had book signings where no-one showed up except the hapless author because of the rain. People will either drive like maniacs, as if cars were somehow water-solulble or they plod along, hyper vigilant that they might aquaplane.
In any case, it should make tomorrow one of those crystal-clear days that send people off to the lookout points on Mulholland where on one side you can see Palm Springs and the other Catalina. Hmmm, gives me an idea...
Saturday, September 22, 2007
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I grew up in a similar climate, where a hail storm is a reason for rescheduling primetime TV.
I remember it fondly every time I get to drive during a nasty snow storm.
I hate cold weather. I'm freezing if it gets into the forties here.
Can you imagine what would happen if it snowed?! Growing up in the weather-rugged Midwest and living in Minneapolist for a short time, followed by moving to AZ in my thirties, I now have an appreciation for the resilience of people who live in cold, harsh climates. Now having been in AZ for seven+ years, I am astonished at my own intolerance of such events. Rain. It's as if people are stunned into inactivity. They forget how to drive and their whole day basically stops. Where I grew up it was just a nuisance at most, refreshing at least but nothing slowed down as a result. We are such wimps! LOL
There was a neat little book by Thom Racina that dealt with that nightmarish scenario: outlook not to good if it did...
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