Weather report
I never meant to imply that when it rains around here it can’t be serious. Remember my friend I was going to have dinner with last night? (Now rescheduled for next week.) He emailed me this update:
We were right to call Seal Beach off last night. I heard on the news that
Sunset Beach was flooded, with PCH closed down. That’s only a mile south of
Seal Beach. And there were plenty of accidents on the freeways.Hope for better weather on Dec. 23.
So see, the rain can be a serious matter. I just don’t think it is all the time.
(And by the way, it’s raining again now. Given the hyperbole of local reporters, I’m expecting forecasts that the coast will shear off into the ocean, helping Las Vegas recoup its real estate values by transforming it into beach front property.)
December 17th, 2008 at 7:42 am
For New Yorkers, we also take a great interest in the weather because some 90% of us have to walk around in it. We’ve all been the schlub having to spend $3-5 (depending on the part of town) with a street vendor to get an umbrella because we forgot to check the report before we left home for the day. And we’ve all seen that attractive young woman who really wants to show off her new short skirt on the town and so she is wearing only that and a bolero jacket even though it’s 28 degrees out. Of course, the follies of youth are like death and taxes… but not taxis, which all magically disappear when it rains, snows, or just gets cold. I think we may be a little more resigned to the weather here, though; no matter the temperature or conditions, we have a tendency to complain excessively and then give the quintessential New Yorker shrug: “whatcha gonna do, hunh?”
December 22nd, 2008 at 3:52 am
Here in Ohio it was raining so hard that –and this is TRUE! — As I drove down the street I saw household pets leaving their homes and lining up at the curb two-by-two.
They were looking for the ark.