not bad for a pacific maritime climate, and me RIGHT next to the water (ie it NEVER sticks here).

about 8" overnight. Everything is closed. The rain is starting, so I'll probably be going to work when its slushy enough for me to get out of my driveway ....

still, its awful purdy!!

We are expecting a storm tonight, though it probably won't amount to much more than 2-4 inches, still enough of a pain that if it doesn't melt by tomorrow afternoon, my car isn't getting up that hill to the barn.

I miss snow. And real trees that turn colors in the fall, and water, and green grass.....I HATE LIVING HERE!!!!!!!

I do miss the leaves turning in the fall though. And daffodils and pussy willows and tulips and...

Intoxicatingly, stupefyingly smelly armloads of lucious, glorious lilacs...

oh pardon me while I go weep now....

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Originally posted by hauptfrau:
AND LILACS!!!

Intoxicatingly, stupefyingly smelly armloads of lucious, glorious lilacs...

oh pardon me while I go weep now....

Gwen

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Spokane Washington is known as "the Lilac City". its always green here, even in the dead of summer (oo! it might hit 80 degrees! egads! ). We have seasons and weather but rarely very much. Once a year we have a big storm and there's wind and rain and sometimes snow.

yes, we all freak out and act like idiots when that white stuff comes from the sky (it happens once a year or so...you'd think they'd get used to it), but everyone is polite about it .

All you need to do is be able to survive for four or five months without seeing the sun. Grey, wet, damp and drizzle, day in, day out. Fabric molds, wood rots, basements flood. A reenactment event without rain is a cause for jubliation and rejoice, because now you dont have to try and figure out where you're going to drape your tent until it dries (and it probably never will).

The green in the trees and parks needs to come from somewhere, and ours comes from the sky .

still, as the song goes....the bluest skies youve ever seen, are in Seattle!

--AM, who loves her town

You and Jeff should relocate to Northeast Tennessee. Sunshine (well, not right now, but...), we have flowers, blooming rhododendron, trees that turn in the fall, no tornados.

That is, if you can stand one of our bitter two week winters. We usually get about two good it's-white-everywhere snows, just enough to say "That sure is pretty.....damn, these folks can't drive on slick road can they?"

However, the longer you remain here, the better adapted to humidity you become. The gills behind my ears began working after two years in residence and continue to serve me well. Before that, I had to cut off a chunk of air and dry it out before breathing it. We have all the joys of Seattle: mildew, rot, no basements at all here, water is too close to the surface plus heat Though at least we have lots of sunshine, our rain is in the summer (May to November--hurricane season) but it's an afternoon build up that comes down in a tropical fury and then goes away.

I've even adapted to be able to portray a Royalist lady of the English Civil War period in July without passing out. But that takes some getting used to, lol.

The only difference with the rain, is that when I was in Seattle, I saw all kinds of interesting things growing on the roofs of houses that you don't find growing on roofs in Florida.