Rainy California

Hello from rainy California! Well, it's finally sunny again. The rain seems to have cleared out for the time being, but not without causing some trouble. Luckily I haven't been affected, and my place hasn't been flooded out.

With all the rain it is just like being back in Connecticut. People born and raised here (in southern California) don't understand weather. I try to explain that this weather we have been experiencing is a normal monthly occurance for most of the rest of the country. Growing up here people just assume that sunny all the time is the norm, so when the sun is gone for 5 days in a row, things are out of wack. I mean, hey, it's winter, we're supposed to have bad weather! At least it's not snow, right?

I do have to say though, the rain here is absurd. Things weren't built here to accomodate it. So what would be a normal rainy weekend in the northeast turns into a disaster here. Any place in a valley floods. Houses slide down the hills. People start kayaking down the street. Roads get filled up with mud. Boulders roll over houses. Sinkholes form in people's front yards (or the road for that matter). It's crazy. I'm just glad my apartment is in a safe area.

And I'm glad the sun is back.