Yeah!!! Rain!!!

It's finally raining with some gusto in these parts... So California...

That song... "It never rains in California"... yeah... it's true...

We are so parched, every few minutes on the radio talks about how we need to conserve water and water our gardens once a week, and don't wash our cars in our driveways etc...

It was getting a little scary to me...

We only need like... 30 more inches of rain to end our drought... and this year, we are at 3 inches total... think we'll make it? yeah.. me either...

But now it's raining... and it's gorgeous...

I'm happy about it as long as it doesn't interfere with our beach plans after Christmas...

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So Calif drivers crack me up.

All you that live in the Northwest, and Northeast... all have snow, pretty much every winter... right? You have four seasons, it's gorgeous and lush and green in your parts...

no huge fires or entire years with only 6 days of rain... right?

Here... in looneyville... where I live... we live in a valley, surrounded by lovely, majestic

11,000 foot mountain peaks. It never snows where I live, at almost sea level, but every winter and spring it snows in the mountains... and after a good rain storm, a couple of days later

the skies open up to a blue expanse and all you can see all around you is beautiful white snow capped mountains, crisp air, and blue sky...

On that same day, if you felt like surfing you could do that in the morning, and then head on up to the mountains and ski in the afternoon... Ya gotta love California... we do have the absolute best weather... hands down...

HOWEVER...

There are a special few here that live in the mountains that surround us.

And... unlike the rest of the world, that sloughs off snow from their cars to drive around in, after a snow storm, nooooo, not here...

Everyday after a snow storm, I see them.

The mountain folk that feel the need to prove they live in the mountains, and drive all over the valley with as much snow still on their cars as possible.

On the top, on the trunk, on the front... in the pickup bed... all except the front windshield.

It's hilarious!

We are so water starved... so parched... so devoid of humidity and moisture... that we

deify snow to such a degree.. that it has become some sort of a status symbol to drive around with wet, melting, dirty, falling off the bumper... snow...

It is the strangest thing...

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I have family in New York, Pennsylvania and Ontario Canada... and when they visit us here in our "winter" they comment all the time about how strange it is that people don't take the snow off their cars...

It'll be 60 degrees, and people are driving around with melting snow on their cars... people!!!

That IS weird... no?

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So... it's raining today... and tomorrow I expect to see at least 20 cars towing copious amounts of snow on their cars, on the freeway...

It's especially fun when a giant chunk of it slides off the car ahead of you, going 75 mph, and it hits your car going the same rate of speed...

fun times...

Ahhh California...

We are looney... but ya gotta admit... ya love us anyway!