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You get an average yearly of about 7 inches of rain. We get just under 10. We just have a better beach.

I'd sure like to know where all that rain goes, 'cause I swear we don't see 7 inches. 10? Wow. I'd Kill for 10" of rain! AND a beach!

no, you just think you would. the beach is heavily infested [as in there's someone with a beer cooler, obnoxious boom-box, and blanket about every 10 feet] with tourists and drunks for the half of the year that the water goes over 68F. there's no parking available over there after 10am on "good" beach days. during the other part of the year there's a nasty tendency for the sewage from TJ to wash up the coast....

rain. well, it's bizarre. that's the average. but for the last five or six years we've been lucky to get more than a couple of inches each year. this year we had a day where some areas got 8 inches of rain in 24 hours. right over a burn zone.

i've been through phoenix in the summer when you've had a good gullywasher. there had to have been 2 or 3 inches that night alone, nevermind when your monsoon season sets in. but things are terribly out-of-whack, weather-wise, in the southwest in the last decade. places that should be very dry are getting a ton of rain and are all greened up, and places that usually get a steady rain in the the winter have not gotten it for many years.

i'd blame it on gobal warming, like people are saying is causing the ice caps to melt, but they've just found that there's a relatively active volcano under one ice-cap....

Didn't know that about the sub-ice cap volcano. Did know that, chapter and verse, about the out of whack weather. When I was a kid we used to have monsoon storms that would send you scurrying for cover. Now, we are almost guaranteed to go the whole monsoon season without more than 7 raindrops. Clouds are there, humidity raises to go hand in hand with yet another day topping 115, but the rain evaporates before it hits our precious jewel of a city (Duncan hopes the sarcasm in this last comment didn't sour Nan's milk).

I've been to the beaches in SD. Had a blast, as it was my landlocked a**es first time seeing the ocean, but the tourists did irritate me. Drunks we have our fill of. Sun baked drunks, even. Nothing near as good as sun dried tomatoes.

actually, there's usually only a couple of weeks when the water goes over 68F. if you want nice, uncrowded water, and can take the risk of dealing with the federales or the bandits, the gulf down in baja is beautiful, i'm told. in the winter the whales come in to calve. and you can find beaches with nobody on 'em.

that does sound beautiful, whales and all. I'd love to see a whale in person.

Looks at shoe. OHOH

So THAT's how he got here! A wormhole. Looking up to see if Pinky and Bunny fall through.

So that's who this strange man is who fell through the wormhole with the spider. Hmmmm I'm going to have to close that thing.

You guys just aren't good at multi-tasking. A tragic fate!

That's the coldest weather temperature I have ever felt. One night at work I heard over the radio that it was -31F outside. I took off my shirt and walked outside to see if I could tell the difference by sensation between -31F and 0F. Couldn't tell really. I guess after a certain point, cold just feels cold. It did make my skin feel hot and prickly actually. The wind wasn't blowing though - the air was absolutely still. I stood out in it for about 5 minutes, then realized my eyes felt like they were starting to freeze, so I went back in. Then my skin felt like it was on fire!

Have you ever put your hands in water after being outside in the cold for several hours? Wow, does that ever hurt!
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I didn't, but my dad did after I insisted on staying outside and sledding for hours with snow in my mittens. I screamed bloody murder when he put them under water to warm them up slowly. The top of the right hand still burns and tingles when it gets under 75 F. No matter what I do, it won't stop that nerve pain until it warms back up. That's what I get for thinking if my brothers weren't going inside neither was I! Of course, I was all of four years old so I probably wasn't making the most sound decisions!

Don't listen to him, Lemon. You will always be younger than me!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! !! ! May you get a present for every year you've been alive.

...well, it's back to the salt mines for another week...
...I am the man of constant sorrow...
...time for this hillbilly to sign out...
...will catch all of you in a week (sooner if I can't sleep)...
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Good morning, Zanne.

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Hi, Chuck! I didn't see you there!

Have a great work week!

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