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09 September 2009

how do people deal with bleeping rain i need to move to a place where it never rains again→[More:]

also, plumbing, heating etc. would never screw up. there'd be no non-working mechanics or devices, especially sudden / random breakages.

also we would never have to deal with things until we feel like dealing with them.

& there'd be no hard edges.

alternately, i need an umbrella and some resolve.

post by: Firas at: 22:18 | 19 comments

So come along. It doesn't rain here. We've been complaining about it for years.

Given the plumber visit yesterday, I'll make no representations about the other issues you raise, but if rain's your problem, SE Australia can probably help you out.

posted by pompomtom 09 September | 22:42

I like the rain, which is a good thing considering where I live. We get 153 days of rain and/or snow a year and only 59 clear days.

posted by octothorpe 09 September | 22:47

I like rain.

posted by gomichild 10 September | 00:36

RAIN! I'm all for it.

posted by rainbaby 10 September | 07:27

Might as well be dead.

posted by Obscure Reference 10 September | 07:36

octothorpe, you are one sick puppy. The only excuse for liking rain is if you don't get it ALL THE FREAKING TIME, and when it's not raining it's dark and overcast, which is even worse.

Yes, I know I'm exaggerating. A tad.

I fantasize that if I move to Summerset, the big view will make everything brighter...

posted by serena 10 September | 07:39

"Skiddth bus and sloppeth us..."
that's a good one, Obscure Reference.

posted by serena 10 September | 07:50

I'll admit that I get a little sick of the weather in late winter and I am spending $10k for a new roof for the garage to keep out the rain but I love how green and lush our city is. I just came back from California and I'm always struck by how dead and lifeless the landscape looks there. The hills are only partially covered by foliage and what's there is pretty small.

posted by octothorpe 10 September | 08:30

Octothorpe, I spend a lot of time in the 'Burgh, because that is the city from which my husband and his entire family hails. I love Pittsburgh, but the first comment I made upon arriving there my first time (which happened to be in the middle of an exceptionally warm and rainy summer) was that the place is "Oppressively green". I love Pittsburgh in the summer, the fall is quite lovely, but you can keep your interminable winter and muddy-ass spring. I find North Carolina's weather to be much to my liking, which is one of the major reasons that we moved here in the first place.

posted by msali 10 September | 09:39

A song tangentially about the rain, which could very well have been written in your city, given the rain and rivers and such. . .(it was really written in Portland)

posted by danf 10 September | 10:02

Being from the Great Pacific Northwest, you cant really hate the rain . its what helps makes the place so dang beautiful when the sun comes out . on those rainy days we can just spend some time being contemplative, catching up on projects or chores and singing Another Song About The Rain

posted by rollick 10 September | 11:29

North Carolina is very nice but I'm not sure that I could live anywhere that requires air-conditioning. I'll take Pittsburgh winters over southern summers any day. My wife, who grew up on Oahu and went to school at UC Santa Cruz, would probably disagree with me on that.

posted by octothorpe 10 September | 11:30

you gotta love/hate Pittsburgh.

posted by serena 10 September | 11:55

I've got nothing but great love for my adopted home city but I've known some folks, usually natives, who did hate it here.

posted by octothorpe 10 September | 12:03

I'll take Pittsburgh winters over southern summers any day.

Octo, where my husband's family is from (North Hills), they have to shut down certain roads in the winter (not just little namby pamby roads, major arteries from one neighborhood to another) due to snow and ice. That sounds like a cold version of hell to me. Plus, I've definitely needed air conditioning in Pittsburgh before, Ach! The humidity!

posted by msali 10 September | 12:51

This "rain" you speak of...is that the myth where water falls from the sky? I'm sorry...I just don't believe it.

(We're in a 5 year drought here, it's kinda getting scary, actually.)

posted by Dejah 10 September | 14:10

Gore-texy goodness is my rain tool.

posted by buzzman 10 September | 19:03

I understand, not raining can be really bad for the ecosystem, weather, etc. I definitely don't want long heat waves, crops dying, whatevs.

I was thinking this morning, an hour or so after posting this, what exactly is my problem with rain? If I get drizzled or drenched well, c'est la vie, I don't freak. If extraordinary things happen (roads screw up, stuff starts leaking) well, welcome to being human, work around it. This is even before we get to umbrellas, raincoats, boots and things like that. So what's the problem? It's just a random disproportionate psychological reaction. I need to get rid of it.

posted by Firas 10 September | 19:12

Endless gray and rain make me want to die.

And California doesn't look dead. It looks brilliantly alive to me. I love deserts - Joshua Tree N.P. was one of my favorite excursions ever, and the whole Palm Springs/Joshua Tree/Salton Sea area still calls to me. I think part of the reason I like it so much is that there really is so much to discover about it, and that it's so easy for casual observers to pass it off as "lifeless" and walk away without ever realizing what's there.

I don't actually mind -rain-, per se. It's the gray, the never seeing sunlight, the cold. I usually deal with it by curling up in bed and trying to sleep until it goes away.

posted by po 10 September | 22:06

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