Killer Storms

One of the best things about living in California is that it only rains in the winter. All the rest of the year, no rain, no mist, no nothing.
One of the worst things about living in California is that it only rains in the winter.
This gives the local news the opportunity to call every rain shower a STORM! They track the STORM!, they monitor the STORM!, they watch the STORM! and then it rains 1/8 of an inch in 24 hours.
When I lived in Pennsylvania, the word storm was reserved for things like 12 inches of snow or massive amounts of lightning strikes. The everyday rain was usually referred to as rain.
huh.
Here in California, every approaching system that involves rainfall is a STORM according to the dudes on the news. i believe this has led us into a "the boy who cried wolf" scenario.
This last week, there actually was a storm, several counties up here flooded out due to very heavy rainfall and the overflow of several rivers and creeks. Very few people left the area when the STORM came through, maybe because it was just another STORM in a long line of STORMS.
What I'm trying to say is it's okay if its just going to rain. I know California is the most important place in the world, but not everything that happens here needs to be of life or death.
But now I have to go and prepare my earthquake kit because the big one is coming maybe next year, maybe next decade or maybe in FIVE MINUTES!