Text 25365, 183 rader
Skriven 2006-11-21 01:43:19 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 25355 av Mimi Gallandt (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Election
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Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 MG> Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 EH>> Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 MG>>> Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 EH>>>> Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 MG>>>>> Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 EH>>>>>> Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:

 TA>>>>>>>>>>>>> If the weather permits you might enjoy the medorite shower
 EH>>>>>>>> tomorrow
 TA>>>>>>>>>>>>> evening.

 EH>>>>>>>>>>>> It won't happen here, we are getting storm after storm
 EH>> rolling
 EH>>>>>>>> in. I
 EH>>>>>>>>>>>> have all but forgot what the night sky looks like without
 MG>>> cloud
 MG>>>>>>>>>>> cover. :-\

 EH>>>>>>>>>>>> Ed

 MG>>>>>>>>>>> I suppose that I shouldn't mention that it's still 65 and
 EH>>>>>>>> beautifully
 MG>>>>>>>>>>> clear then, eh? That would probably be in poor taste on my
 MG>>>>>>> part.  :)

 EH>>>>>>>>>> Yes, that is in poor taste. :-)

 EH>>>>>>>>>> It's 45 and wet (dark too) here at the moment.

 EH>>>>>>>>>> Ed

 MG>>>>>>>>> Poor baby. Desktop weather says it's 54 and fair here now. I
 MG>>>>> haven't
 MG>>>>>>>>> been out yet so I'll believe it when I do go out. :)

 EH>>>>>>>> My weather applet on my desktop says it's 50 and rainy here at
 EH>> the
 EH>>>>>>>> moment. Looking outside, it looks wet.

 EH>>>>>>>> Ed

 MG>>>>>>> You wouldn't have wanted to be here today, it got up to 90. I
 EH>> don't
 MG>>>>>>> really mind hot weather, but I hate hot days with chilly damp
 EH>>>> nights,
 MG>>>>>>> plays hell with the sinuses.  :)

 EH>>>>>> I am not a hot weather type of person. During the summer it gets
 EH>>>> close
 EH>>>>>> to 90 (even over 90) and I stay inside as much as possible with
 MG>>> my AC
 EH>>>>>> and fans.

 EH>>>>>> As much as I am not a cold-wet-and-dark type person, either, I
 EH>> still
 EH>>>>>> prefer actually having 4 distinct seasons during the year.

 EH>>>>>> Ed

 MG>>>>> We have four seasons, it's just that all four of them are good. :)

 EH>>>> Yeah, your 4 seasons are warm, hot, warm, and warm. ;-)

 EH>>>> Ed

 MG>>> and the problem with that is?

 EH>> Seeing Santa ringing a bell in front of Safeway in 80+ temps and
 EH>> sunshine is a bit odd.

 MG> Fear not; Vons, Ralphs and Albertsons have bought or run out of town all
 MG> the old Safeways. :)  It very, very rarely gets into the 80s during
 MG> December, it hovers between the 50s at night and the low 70s in the day.

Wow! I remember a Safeway being not too far from where my Aunt and Uncle lived.
Of course, that was over 30 years ago.

 MG>>> Our trees leaves turn colors and fall off,
 MG>>> it just stays warm while they're doing it.

 EH>> We have green trees even in winter. They're called evergreens. ;-)

 MG> It's funny that most people thing that palm trees are indigenous to
 MG> California (they're not) the actual indigenous ones are oaks and pines,

Yes, I know. The ubiquitous Southern California palm is a recent imigrant.

 MG> in fact the only place Torey pines are indigenous is San Diego county.

Yep. My mother tried to grow one up here. It grew very slowly and almost died.
Fortunately it we planted it between our house and the neighbor to the west, so
it was sheltered from the cold winter winds.

 MG> Did you know that the Spanish brought palm trees here (North America)?

Not all fo them. ;-)

 MG>>> If an overwhelming need to
 MG>>> see snow over comes us we can always go to Julian (a gold rush
 MG> town in
 MG>>> NE SD county),

 EH>> We get very little snow in the lower elevations.

 MG> Neither do we, but you have more elevated places than we do. :) Having

Mountain Rainier is only 70 miles from here. The Sound is only 5 miles from
here.

 MG> seen the Rocky Mountains from both sides of the Eisenhower Tunnel pass
 MG> California is really lacking in the mountain department. Shasta is very
 MG> nice and the Sierras are beautiful, but along the coast here we have
 MG> hills that people who don't know any better call "mountains" :)

That's like when I was in Pheonix all those years ago. Camel Back "mountain"
was a joke. You could drive up to the top in less than 5 minutes.

 MG>>> I'll admit that no such need has ever overwhelmed me

 EH>> I'm with you, leave the snow in the mountains. :-)

 MG>>> (I've never understood the nostalgia associated with needing to put
 EH>> your
 MG>>> car to bed with an electric blanket so it'll start the next day and
 EH>> then

 EH>> They do that in Alaska, not here.

 MG> We did it at NTC Great Lakes and they do it in Montana as well. :)

Oh yeah, Montana is colder than here.

 MG>>> needing to shovel the driveway just in time for the snow plows to
 MG> push

 EH>> I have only shoveled snow off my driveway once. That was 30+ years
 MG> ago.

 MG> I have never shoveled snow here.

LOL!

 MG>>> it right back in). We generally get 6 weeks of rain a year which
 MG>>> invariably reminds locals why it's a bad idea to build three major
 MG>>> shopping centers and numerous hotels in a riverbed! The rain usually
 MG>>> comes during the whole month of Feb and either the last 2 weeks of
 MG> Jan
 MG>>> or the first 2 of March. There are also those 2 weeks of hell in
 EH>> either
 MG>>> September or October that we call the Santa Anas in which the wind
 EH>> that
 MG>>> usually flows from the ocean on to us turns around and blows from the
 MG>>> desert on to us. (Tim no doubt fares worse under them than we along
 EH>> the
 MG>>> coast do) :)


 EH>> We don't get Santa Anas around here. ;-)

 MG> You must get the Chinooks in winter, but you probably welcome them then.
:)


Yep, the Chinooks are welcome winds most of the time.

We just had a lot of flooding north and east of here. Where I live there is no
real chance of flooding.

The main reason for the flooding was unseasonally warm weather and more rain
than usual.

Ed

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