Always in Threes
Celebrity deaths, like plane crashes, always seem to come in threes. Just as politics makes strange bedfellows, so do these trios. Try this one on:
John Raitt, Sandra Dee, and Hunter S. Thompson.
John Raitt, Sandra Dee, and Hunter S. Thompson.
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Hey, I hear it's raining in Southern California again. Hope y'all don't get washed away in mud slides. Got a little rain here, but it sure beats the inches of snow that did not appear yesterday, despite all the warnings.
This is not just rain. It's down right Biblical. Van Nuys has gotten almost 8 inches of rain this storm. LA is about 10 inches ahead of Seattle. I am just
SICK OF IT!
But you didn't say if all the Rumpusers are OK. Hope you aren't stuck bailing out the basement all night. (Sump pumps with Die Hard battery backup power might be in order.)
I suppose y'all aren't going to feel much sympathy for our predicted 2-4 inches of snow tomorrow. We got off lucky on Sunday when we got NADA, instead of the forecast snow, ice, and rain. There is nothing fun about ice.
Hey C.I.V.!
Thanks for asking about the Rumpusers. We're all okay here -- well, relatively okay. None of the Rumpusers have had any rain damage, but I am just crawling back from a rather long bout with pleurisy. As for baling out basements -- does anyone in Southern California HAVE a basement?
Did you get your snow there? I DO sympathize with people in other areas of the country who actually have to experience a real winter every year. I spent a few years (when I was in graduate school) in the Northeast, and, as I had never lived in a place where it actually snows, I was excited about the first snowfall. At the time, I was living in graduate student housing, and when it started snowing (sometime in November, I think), I ran outside with a student from Florida, and we made snowballs and brought them back up to the dorms and laughed and threw them at people. The other students, who were from parts of the country where they actually have winter, just shook their heads knowingly and looked at us slightly disdainfully, as if to say, "Poor uninitiated sunshine-addled fools!" When it was still snowing SIX MONTHS LATER, I finally understood their disdain.
But
Snow due to start Thursday morning, probably at rush hours. Now, will they send all the kiddies to school and then bring them back early on slippery roads? Or, will they cancel school and hope it snows so that they won't look foolish? Will it snow AFTER everyone is at work or while they're on the way? Will everyone be sliding around trying to avoid hitting school buses at noon?
A great day to stay home, and that's what I plan to do.
Snow in some parts of the country is real snow. What we get here is usually heavy, slushy, icy, and slippery. A half inch and your car's in a ditch. Awful stuff. Only once this year (and not in a long time) did we get light, fluffy, powdery snow that was a breeze to clear.
Still, an occasional snow storm isn't as bad as houses washing down hills! Best of luck to y'all. Hope it stops raining soon.
Stewdog lives in Southern California and has a basement!
It hasn't been fun the last few days. When it rains like that, the drain does not do the job.
At least we are catching a few days relief.
Well, it snowed all day and it is still snowing and will continue through the wee hours of Friday. I shoveled some, and it is VERY heavy. Hours of snow compressed down to a wet, soggy, slush under snow. When you pick up a shovelful, it's like shoveling gallons of milk. When you fling it, it doesn't go anywhere. Argh! Each heavy shovelful must be carried to the edge and slammed down to remove the snow. This is followed by several kicks to the blade to remove more snow, and finally scraping the remains off. Mostly I ended up pushing the stuff to the side of the driveway.
When (if) I retire and move some day, I want a place with a shorter driveway on the SUNNY side of the house.
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