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Rain, Rain, Go Away

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COMMENT 130553P	2010-12-25 10:16 AM
Things are definitely better than when my father had to walk uphill both ways through the snow to Hollywood High School 365 days a year, carrying his saxophone.
COMMENT 130561	2010-12-25 10:53 AM
@130553P -- in the days when your father went to Hollywood High School, did it snow in the summer months when, according to your claim, he walked to school 365 days -- which also included holidays and weekends? Maybe life would have been easier for him, had he left his saxophone home, instead of carrying it with him -- did your father go to school on weekends and during the summer months and holidays, too? Maybe if he had left his saxophone home, he wouldn't have had to carry it through the snow when he walked uphill both ways through the snow to . . . yadda, yadda, yadda.
COMMENT 130563	2010-12-25 11:03 AM
Portland gets a lot of rain. Vancouver, too.
COMMENT 130564	2010-12-25 11:07 AM
Dear Not-so-Cold, This whining of yours has really gotten on my nerves. I wish you would stop complaining and go back to Seattle or Minnesota.
ROGER DODGER	2010-12-25 11:21 AM
Back in thee day I used to walk 7 miles to work and hitch back in the snow living in Ft. Wayne and working at Old Ft. Myers truck stop. I made 42.00 a week clear 26.00 was rent a week. 16.00 went for a carton of smokesbread, soup a fifth of cheapo vodka and a six pack of beer. The same thing up in Hammond got up at 3:30 in the morning to get to work left at 4, hitchiking get there by 6. I worked in a freezer for Land O Frost, it was 10 below outside and 30 in the freezer just like being on the beach in Flordia. I broke ice with a sledge hammer...Those were the GOOD old day's...
COMMENT 130553P	2010-12-25 11:36 AM
@130561, carrying that saxophone uphill both ways in the snow 365 days a year paid off for my father, as he had a big band career after graduating from Hollywood High in 1934, eventually playing with Les Brown and Tommy Dorsey. It also led to his meeting my mother, from which I benefited.
COMMENT 130570	2010-12-25 11:40 AM
Dear Not-so-cold, I admit that here we are just a bunch of sissies, but if you live here then you are one of us too. Congratulations.
COMMENT 130571	2010-12-25 11:40 AM
@569, which goes to show that you couldn't have been born without sax.
COMMENT 130580P	2010-12-25 12:13 PM
Sheesh. It's all relative. If you live in a place that has lots of rain, then it's expected, and the infrastructure is built to handle it. If I move to Seattle, I will expect rain and therefore it won't be a surprise. Same goes for Minnesota snow and freezing temps. I don't get the comparison. Southern California rarely has heavy rains like other places. The soil, the topography, the infrastructure, and the inhabitants don't expect it and aren't prepared for it. Do you want the State to spend a gazillion dollars to build infrastructure to handle bad weather that comes only once in a while? And sure, when the rain comes, people will talk about it. No this isn't Seattle, Dorothy.
SHOREBIRD	2010-12-25 12:13 PM
Every time I go on vacation people ask me what the weather will be like where I am going. I always respond the same way. "It doesn't matter, because I am coming back to Santa Barbara."
COMMENT 130553P	2010-12-25 12:16 PM
Haha, 130571, my father was also quite a punster, and if he were still around, he would really appreciate your bon mot. He used to call himself a "saxy cat."
COMMENT 130588	2010-12-25 01:04 PM
130571: touche
COMMENT 130609	2010-12-25 04:17 PM
Who's worried about the showers they call storms here ? The newscaster on KEYT is a joke,a comedy hour. Complete with idiot maps he can extend a simple rain report into a drawn out drama with facial expressions,gestures and knee jerks that rival Jerry Lewis.
COMMENT 130614P	2010-12-25 05:10 PM
Once I was in Illinois. It rained and snowed and the wind made sheets of ice fall off the tall buildings in Chicago. And they think Seattle is bad.... Sheesh.
COMMENT 130683	2010-12-26 11:54 AM
I grew up in Detroit, where cold is really cold...how about delivering newspapers in freezing sleet and snow...trudging through mounds of snow covered with ice (impossible to use my bike). And when you stepped on the ice it cracked and your foot got buried in the snow beneath...don't forget the shards of ice cutting through your pants and abrading your ankles...There should be a law outlawing whining in SB...Grateful I am, to be living in this paradise...rain or no rain!
COMMENT 130697	2010-12-26 01:16 PM
We need the moisture, but unfortunately it's hard on the burn areas with slides and flooding. I look at it as free water for my plants and yard, as paying alot of money for it in general for most of us takes a toll on our bank accounts. You will not here me complaining about this whatsoever and if people do, let them vent. Look at it as a positive in that perspective.
COMMENT 130739	2010-12-26 05:21 PM
well, i have lived many places, this is the first where rain is not a constant. i love rain personally, and the main thing that i find amusing about all of the complaining "rain panic" people is that we wouldn't be blessed to live in such a lush and beautiful paradise if not for the occasional rains. we need them. and yes natural disasters do occur and there is nothing we can do to stop them. it's all a part of that tiny little thing that permeates our entire existence that we so often take for granted called mother nature. deal everyone.

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