Lexicus
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They don't have them in LA either. It barely even rains there.
Oh, the weather outside is...
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They don't have them in LA either. It barely even rains there.
Bamspeedy
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No rain in the last week or so, and no rain forecasted until wednesday so everything's getting dried out. High of 80 degrees most days, don't get snow until November usually.
Apparently two dams failed (on separate river/creek systems), or at least the paper said they failed, but later in the article said one clearly failed, but it's not clear on the other one (overflowed instead of catastrophic failure?)
Coon Creek around Coon Valley that's normally 2-5 feet deep, I'm guessing after the dam broke was 15 feet deep. The bridge on main street is normally 8 feet or so above the water, during the flood one couple in a house on main street had to be rescued from second floor windows by boat from the volunteer fire department. Kickapoo River isn't normally very deep either, from the northern parts I'm familiar with (similar depth as the Coon Creek). Twenty years ago or so FEMA paid to elevate a dozen or more houses in one town south of me that had annual flooding, and if the homeowner wanted it elevated more they had to pay for it themselves (only a couple of them did). All but two of those FEMA elevated houses were flooded.
Apparently two dams failed (on separate river/creek systems), or at least the paper said they failed, but later in the article said one clearly failed, but it's not clear on the other one (overflowed instead of catastrophic failure?)
Coon Creek around Coon Valley that's normally 2-5 feet deep, I'm guessing after the dam broke was 15 feet deep. The bridge on main street is normally 8 feet or so above the water, during the flood one couple in a house on main street had to be rescued from second floor windows by boat from the volunteer fire department. Kickapoo River isn't normally very deep either, from the northern parts I'm familiar with (similar depth as the Coon Creek). Twenty years ago or so FEMA paid to elevate a dozen or more houses in one town south of me that had annual flooding, and if the homeowner wanted it elevated more they had to pay for it themselves (only a couple of them did). All but two of those FEMA elevated houses were flooded.
Why would people live where it barely rains?
(yes, I know, there are many reasons... but I honestly can't fathom wanting to live somewhere that doesn't get snow)
BenitoChavez
What business is it of yours?
What place on Earth doesn't have some sort of unpleasant weather? You are going to have extreme hot, extreme cold, high humidity, floods, droughts, snow, hurricanes, tornadoes or some mixture anywhere you go. It gets even worse if you factor in other natural disasters like earthquakes or fires.
Lexicus
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Los Angeles comes pretty damn close but I've seen what happens when it rains there. Hawaii also comes pretty damn close but they do have occasional hurricanes. I also really liked the weather in Cape Town from September-November, it started out pretty rainy and dreary but not too cold and got just perfect, even better than LA, by the end of October.
I enjoy the weather in the San Francisco bay area too, very moderate temperatures with rainy winters. Only problem there is all the earthquakes.
Rain is pretty annoying when you have to be out and about, though there's not much that beats chilling in one's bedroom with synthwave playing and rain sounds coming through the open windows.
It can be annoying when there's too much of it, and floods are bad. It's been over 12 years since the last flood that would have endangered my home (I lived a block from the river at the time; I was offered sandbags, but thankfully ended up not needing them).
But for the most part, we need rain and we need snow. Too little snow in winter means it's too dry for planting in spring. Since the major industries in this part of Canada include farming and ranching, getting enough precipitation in both summer and winter is crucial.
Lexicus
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This year we've gotten nearly 90 inches of rain, which is already higher than our yearly average of 79 inches. Every time it rains flash flood warnings ping up on my phone.
Zkribbler
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Bamspeedy
CheeseBob
Yeah, when I get one ping about flash flooding, I ignore it. That one night I got 5 of them before leaving work or on way home, 2 more after getting home and two more when I was sleeping. If my home was flooded, other villages around here would be 30 feet underwater.
GenMarshall
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Some people hate the headache that comes with snow. Especially cleaning it off your driveway and car.
I hate snow because I have to clean up after it and drive in the crap.
Central NM has four seasons, but none of them are particularly troublesome or long. Plus, no earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes. It is dry.
Lexicus
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I ignore them too. But it says something about how saturated the ground is. It thunderstormed on Weds and rained for about an hour and a half and my yard was covered with about two inches of water.
Timsup2nothin
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I can look out my window and see snow for about four months in most years, sometimes a bit more, sometimes a bit less. If I feel the inclination I can drive up there and ski on it and drive back without even burning half a tank of gas. But I certainly feel no need to buy a second set of tires over it, and I think that's a pretty good deal.
Then there's this.
When I lived in Idaho I was on a bowling league. We bowled three games, at eight o'clock. We started getting ready at six, and would fall into bed exhausted around midnight. Bowling THREE GAMES consumed an entire evening.
stfoskey12
Emperor of Foskania
What about a place like Ohio? They don't get hurricanes or many tornadoes, and have a nice, balanced four-season climate without snow in September. They also get plenty of rain.
Does Ohio have mountains? I can see the Rockies from a particular point on the East Hill here.
Lexicus
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Nah it's quite flat. Ohio is humid hell in the summer though.
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Description I heard once of summer in the midwest: "Toss an ice cube on the sidewalk it will melt before it hits, but the wet spot will still be there in September."
Having been raised in the desert and at that point having little other experience, my response was "wet spot?" Around here an ice cube on the sidewalk is the same size as the wet spot that theoretically exists underneath it, so I'd never seen one in that context.
Zkribbler
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And pollen! Gah! When I visited my sister there, I thought I was going blind.
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We drove into Tag today. Twice, rain squalls were so heavy, we almost had to stop. But about 20 minutes outside of the city, the sun suddenly came out!
Later, it followed us home. A beautiful day...[still quite windy though].
Okay, three reasons to scratch Ohio off the list of places I'd live.And pollen! Gah! When I visited my sister there, I thought I was going blind.
While I don't live in the mountains, I am close enough to the foothills to experience the same chinook weather Calgary does. The prairie here isn't flat - it's rolling.
And I am not a fan of either humidity or pollen.
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