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Rainy LA Day

California is funny and so are the seasons. Unlike most of the US which can count Fall, Winter and Spring as seasons, California has other kinds of seasons. We have The Rainy Season, The Fire Season, The Mudslide Season and The Earthquake Season or I guess you could say we have natural disaster seasons. I guess, bad traffic and weirdo seasons are the price we have to pay the weather gods for not having Fall, Winter and Spring. I am not complaining. I quite like having varying degrees of summer through out the year but it's way funny when the weather changes drastically in one day because everybody goes ballistic. I am pretty sure the folks in Wisconsin don't call for a weather watch when fall hits their state. But here in kooky LA people freak out at the slightest change. People on Facebook yelling its too hot, its too cold or something to the effect that the weather sucks. I really want to shout out "Chill Out Stupids! You live in friggin CA not Kansas. If you don't like it get the hell out." This past weekend we were in Palm Springs enjoying 80 degree weather and in one day it's pouring rain and 64 degrees. Everyone and their mother is drinking soup and wearing a trendy cardigan. The news outlets all over Los Angeles are screaming about Weather Watch 2009. I take their announcements as the official announcement of a new season. It must be our weird version of fall if the newscasters are calling for Weather Watch '09. I still can't get over how friggin' crazy people get when it rains in LA. With all the fuss you'd think a friggin hurricane was going to hit the city! People it's rain. Rain varies from light to hard. It won't make you melt. God forbid we get big droplets of rain. When we do the city closes down or rather starts to drive really poorly. I really don't get the bad driving thing. It's not like anyone is actually from Los Angeles. So I don't get why they don't know how to drive in rain. Did you people just plain forget?? It's very stressful living in LA when its not summertime, what with the fires and the impending mudslides. I know a lot of people hated today's weather but I loved the change. For the first time in a long time, I slept good last night and as a bonus I got to put on my fluffy sweater, my comfy if not over sized sweatpants and I got to surround myself with big fluffy soft blankets. I even turned on the heat. Yes, summer is over in LA but I for one enjoyed this rainy LA Day. Welcome Fall!

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