Welcome to Wet.

[cadhla]

Today launched the second of the major Bay Area seasons (the first being 'Dry'): Wet. Welcome to Wet, the part of the year where it rains constantly, just because it can. We're talking six months of rain, some years, although three or four are more common. We're talking 'they cancelled the closing night of the play I directed my senior year of

Comments

[wendyzski]

I went to visit my brother in Woodside a couple of years ago and saw all the rickety hill-side houses in pretty cotton-candy colors while taking the bus into SF proper. Surrounded not by lawns or streets but by torn bare earth from places where other cotton-candy colored houses had decided they'd rather live in the valley kthxbye. Somehow the idea of a house that depends not on a foundation but on pitons to secure it does not thrill me.

[rysmiel]

Point of information for general care of Seanans: does that hating being wet extend to things in the hot-tub direction as well as to rain ?

[alethea_eastrid]

in some cases, frozen water works even better. (there's this range, roughly NYC south, where drivers Don't Get Snow, so when it snows, they freak out. I'll never forget the time Atlanta got two inches and shut down. From Maine, with about 18 inches on the ground, I laughed myself silly.)

[chirik]

I love Wet. After 8 months of Dry, it's nice for the change, especially when it's warm and wet.

As long as I'm sitting under an overhang, listening and watching the wet ... but not actually IN the wet.

I don't like being in the wet.

Seasons

[harmonyheifer]

You know, I get this misguided pity from my family and friends who live in the midwest, how awful it must be to live somewhere with no seasons. I remember two seasons well from my nearly 30 years of living in Northeast Missouri. Summer and Winter. Spring and Autumn lasted a couple of days each if we were lucky. I don't miss 400 dollar electric bills in December, or blistering heat combined with stifling humidity in a place where the only air conditioning was in the supermarket or the movie theatre. I did, however decide how we define seasons here in Arizona. You know it is Autumn, Winter, or Spring when the snowbirds start arriving. When they all go away, it is Summer! Stay as dry and warm as you can.

Re: Seasons

[rysmiel]

Moving from Britain to Montreal was something similar in terms of scale; the four-season model of the year just does not work here.

I love the heat, and papersky loves the cold, so it works out better than living in a part of the world that's gloomy and grey and wet and chilly much of the time. This way we each get a comfortable half year, plus a few weeks in spring and autumn to have Hyperborean family visit and be reasonably comfortable. First summer here we did see a lot of bad movies for the air-conditioning, though. Even now, in my family movie trailers get rated "yes", "maybe", "maybe if it's hot" [ great one for bad Christmas movies, that ], or "it doesn't get that hot". With Legally Blonde 2 getting the special category "it doesn't get that hot on Venus."