Friday, November 30, 2007

First one

Well, the first "storm" rolled into the Southland here today, accompanied by the resultant pandemonium on the freeways, as the last 8-9 months worth of oil, grease and other sundry automotive fluids got lifted out of all the cracks and pores in the asphalt, creating the equivalent of a valley-wide skating rink - not to mention landslides/mudslides in the areas recently devastated by the wildfires...
I love the rain, myself; I know how desperately this part of the world needs it, and I'm always hoping for more... besides which, it never rains hard enough here to make me miserable - coming from the northern UK, I have a distinct idea of what hard, driving rain feels like, and it's nothing like the warm gentle showers that make everyone here wet themselves...

2 comments:

none said...

I know what you mean. Someone spits on the ground here and they act like it's aramgeddon.

phlegmfatale said...

I love a good toad-strangling storm. We get them proper out here in north Texas, thank goodness. That kind of weather blisses me out, except it makes my hair enormous. *ack!*