Yesterday afternoon we had a real frog-strangler rain, just in time to thoroughly mess up the rush hour. Luckily, the rush hour is no longer my problem, except as it messes up Ray's commute.
Last Tuesday the high temperature was 87 and it was totally sunny and glorious.
Yesterday the high temperature was 57 and it was mostly not sunny and miserable.
It looks like The Big Wet is getting itself wound up and ready to unleash itself on a dry Northwest. As much as I wilt in 87 degrees, I will kinda miss the warmth and the sunshine. We've not turned on the heat yet so it was 56 degrees in our dining/living room this morning when I got up. Probably colder when Ray got up.
But as miserable and wintry as yesterday was, we don't have to suffer the consequences of earthquake and tsunami, as do Indonesia, Samoa and Tonga, or typhoon as does the Philippines. We know people who have family and other loved ones in those places. We worry with them, praying their loved ones are going to be ok, and knowing that many, many thousands are way more miserable than a few wet people in Greater Pugetopolis, and knowing that our distant brothers and sisters have lost way more than some time in a rush hour backup.
If you can, please donate to a reliable relief organization, one that will truly see that the aid reaches the people it needs to reach.
And be glad it's only rain.
Susan
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4 comments:
It's only rain eh? Can you also say it's only winter? It's only a foot of snow? Where does this placid acceptance of winter's ensuing wrath end?!
Winter, humbug.
Well, see, winter here generally involves many days of rain and a very few days of snow. Some years we don't get any snow at all and most years the snow we get doesn't hang around all that long. Winter down here in the central Puget Sound area doesn't usually come wrathfully.
But the point was, it could be much worse. We are lucky not to be coping with enormous natural disaster.
Susan, I really appreciate your posting and get your point. But, of course, I've been worrying about people on distant islands where the rain has been much more than a mildly unpleasant inconvenience. Which will not prevent me from complaining vociferously!
Well, guys, I guess we are never quite happy when it comes to weather. Feel free to complain all you like, but the most is yet to come. This is only Little Wet season, after all.
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