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Having some other region's weather
Mar. 14th, 2010 02:07 pmUsually it snows in the winter time here in New England. In upstate New York the snow would still arrive into April, but the middle of March is usually when the snow tapers here in Boston. This being the Year of Crazed Weather, we've been getting rain off and on for nearly a month. Thus all the blizzard conditions happening south of us were just intense rain storms.
Today is a continuation of the heavy rain and wind from yesterday. The ground is frighteningly saturated outside my house. The neighbor's backyard is a pool with islands of lawn. Since I live in a valley, I have to take flooding a bit more seriously than I did when I lived in high turf.
We've very few days below freezing in the last three weeks. This means the ground is thawing very early. This is good for the rain because it's not trying to penetrate icy rock, but it's going to confuse the plants. I bet there will be early insect infestations this year.
Too many overcast days and rain depress me. When I arrived in Sydney and faced nearly five days of torrential rain that never let up, I started losing my mind. I was having horrible jet lag that woke me at 6 every morning to a view without the sun. When I got the news about a typhoon off the coast with 75 MPH winds, I caught the next flight to Melbourne. It was a little colder there but the sky was clear.
I have a low-level Seasonally Affected Disorder, much like I also have a low-level cold right now. (In Spanish, The former would use a different form of "to be" than the latter.) The lack of sunlight gets to me. The hole in the sole of my right shoe gets to me physically as the rain water soaks my sock.
I've been tossing hard drives as part of my purge of items at the ends of their lives. These aren't drives anyone wants: 1 GB, 3.25 GB, even a couple that were half a gigabyte. I threw out four of them so far and still haven't tossed ten gigabytes of drive space.
The forecast from NOAA (you know, the weather adults) says this will keep up until Tuesday night -- unless it accidentally turns to snow for a while. I just took a Sudafed and brewed a cup of tea. Let's hope that helps me rejoin the earthly people.
-is this what it's like in Seattle? Dante
Today is a continuation of the heavy rain and wind from yesterday. The ground is frighteningly saturated outside my house. The neighbor's backyard is a pool with islands of lawn. Since I live in a valley, I have to take flooding a bit more seriously than I did when I lived in high turf.
We've very few days below freezing in the last three weeks. This means the ground is thawing very early. This is good for the rain because it's not trying to penetrate icy rock, but it's going to confuse the plants. I bet there will be early insect infestations this year.
Too many overcast days and rain depress me. When I arrived in Sydney and faced nearly five days of torrential rain that never let up, I started losing my mind. I was having horrible jet lag that woke me at 6 every morning to a view without the sun. When I got the news about a typhoon off the coast with 75 MPH winds, I caught the next flight to Melbourne. It was a little colder there but the sky was clear.
I have a low-level Seasonally Affected Disorder, much like I also have a low-level cold right now. (In Spanish, The former would use a different form of "to be" than the latter.) The lack of sunlight gets to me. The hole in the sole of my right shoe gets to me physically as the rain water soaks my sock.
I've been tossing hard drives as part of my purge of items at the ends of their lives. These aren't drives anyone wants: 1 GB, 3.25 GB, even a couple that were half a gigabyte. I threw out four of them so far and still haven't tossed ten gigabytes of drive space.
The forecast from NOAA (you know, the weather adults) says this will keep up until Tuesday night -- unless it accidentally turns to snow for a while. I just took a Sudafed and brewed a cup of tea. Let's hope that helps me rejoin the earthly people.
-is this what it's like in Seattle? Dante
