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[g4rek]

I WISH IT WOULD STOP RAINING FOR A WHILE HERE. IF IT GETS MUCH WETTER WE WILL BEGIN TO GO RUSTY LIKE OUR CARS........... #
# # # # # # # # # # G4REK...............

[WB2WIK]

Move to L.A.

Here, it's 90 degrees F, very sunny, warm breeze today. Been like that all week....

WB2WIK/6

[K9STH]

Remember, Steve, that when my wife and I were out in Orange County in September it rained twice! Also, it was raining in Escondido when we went down there. Obviously, according to my wife's cousins who live in Oceanside, a result of "global warming" since this was the first rain that they had seen in 3 years!

Glen, K9STH

[WB2GOF]

Don't worry. One day soon, California is going to be struck by that one killer earthquake and fall off into the Pacific. Hope that takes care of all those phonies in Hollywood.

[k3sam]

Steve,

2 years ago yesterday we were in LA. for the first time. #Earthquakes, falling off the Earth, alternate lifestyles, etc.. didn't scare us. #Nice place to visit and possibly live at some point. #Enjoyed the view from the air and the people on the ground when we landed. #I would not rule out my final retirement as being in Ca. somewhere. #Rain, I don't mind all that much. #Snow is pretty for a few days, but longer than that gets boring and I hate to shovel. #Snow should be outlawed except for Christmas !

73, Sam

[N7CPC]

Oddly enough, I might recomend a holiday in Seattle. We are currently in the grip of a "drought". Realitive to this being a rain forrest. What forrest that is left, that is.

73 de Craig..........N7CPC

[WB2WIK]

Sam, I've traveled to all 50 states (most several times), and have driven x-country via every interstate route there is (I80 - I40 - I10), and spent years making a spreadsheet of everything I liked, and didn't like, about everyplace we visited. It took twelve years of data collecting, and evaluating that data, to determine this is where I wanted to live. Once that was determined, my house went on the market and I packed to move within 30 days.

No family here, no job here, no nothing -- just decided this would be the place.

I'll never regret that decision.

I travel back east to visit family and friends, etc -- and even to work DX contests, which are more readily won from the Northeast than from anywhere else in America (strategic advantage having that great shot to Europe).

Don't blame you for wanting to move here. It really is a pleasure to walk outside barefoot 52 weeks a year and not have to own "winter clothes," but still be within walking distance to shopping, theaters, etc.

And, Glen -- well, it rained here two weeks ago, first rain since February 17th, according to the weatherman. It was great! People here really enjoy the rain. It doesn't happen often, but when it does, it's like a big block party!

73,

Steve WB2WIK/6

[ae4fa]

I've got the perfect fix for a drought: Start building a house.

We have been in drought for four years. Then my wife decided it was finally time for me to start buidling what I promised her - its been damn near flooding since I began!

73, Bob

[w5alt]

The absolute lowest temperature I have seen here in Maracaibo during the last 6 years was one blustery winter morning at dawn. It got all the way down to about 20 degrees.

Centigrade.

During the "rainy season", we get rain for an hour or so every couple weeks. The wet season lasts maybe 3 months or so.

I love talking to our US offices in winter. I ask how the weather is and they say about 30 degrees and I say, it's the same here #....... Oh, you mean Fahrenheit.

The only time I've not worn a short sleeve shirt is when they crank the A/C down too low.

73,

[N0KLT]

Yo Glen,

Did you ever consider that the rain was following you and that you were the cause of the rains in "Sunny California"???
Just a thought.

As an amusing (to me anyway) aside, my son moved out to Olympia, Washington in October of 2000. I kept telling him that he was gonna mold or mildew out there with all the rain and he kept telling me how lovely it was and that really they were having a lot sun there actually. Next winter he was complaining long and hard about how wet and grey it was. Seems as though the year he moved out there and he thought the weather was so great, that area was in a 'drought' and they had less the half the normal rainfall. I am not sure he is gonna make it through this winter without moving or not. Of course, compared to winters in Nebraska where he grew up, or in north Chicago where he had been the previous 4 winters, almost anyplace where it doesn't snow or ice would seem great.

73

Gary N0KLT (gearing up for another Nebraska winter)

[K9STH]

My wife was born in Glendale, California, but her family moved to Atlanta, Georgia, when she was 3. However, she has all sorts of relatives out there (I have a few), and our middle daughter moved to Orange County about 5 years ago. My relatives are mainly in northern Indiana (the "snow capital" of the state) but a number have moved to Florida.

Actually, over the years, I have seen rain in California as well as in Tucson, Arizona, where I have a number of relatives as well. The rain in Tucson was in late June, very unusual from what my relatives said.

However, how do you know if it is sunny in southern California with all that smog and stuff?!

My youngest daughter moved to Atlanta about 4 years ago and then to the foothills about 40 miles north of downtown (Cherokee County). It is usually about 10 to 15 degrees cooler in the foothills than in Atlanta proper and she calls her mother to let her know!

Now, as for our friends in the U.K.: I thought that the rainy season was the "norm" with sunshine being the unusual! Just kidding, but the British Isles are known for precipitation.

Glen, K9STH