Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: wet
  • Music: Counting Crows, "Rain King."

Rain, rain, everywhere...

...and not a drop to drink.

Native Californians (of which I am one) often joke that we live in a state that has three natural seasons: Wet, Dry, and On Fire. Local conditions have restricted us to Dry and On Fire in recent years, with instances of Wet being few and far-between. No one really likes a drought, but as no one really likes wet socks and the smell of moldy leaves, people have really only complained about it in the summer.

Well, as of Monday, Wet has returned, and with a vengeance. Seriously. There are flooding advisories; people's houses are leaking and sliding down hills (again); Southern California was under some really scary severe weather warnings yesterday; and the beaches are closed due to high water conditions. (It's too much to hope that these "high water conditions" will result in a giant squid getting stuck in the Bay and eating commuters. But a girl can still dream.)

My shoes are soaked. My jeans are soaked. My trenchcoat is soaked, to the point where the water actually came through the ostensibly rainproof fabric and soaked my sweater as a sort of extra added bonus. My hair is soaked, and looks something like a dead Muppet that I have stapled unkindly to my head. I need more Diet Dr Pepper, but I'm trying to avoid going out into the rain again until I can at least feel my toes, since the last thing I want is to take a header into one of the rapidly-developing lakes studding the neighborhood.

Naturally, this is the day when I need to go, on foot, to the cupcake bakery and pick up three dozen cupcakes for tonight's author event. I begin to fear that I, and the cupcakes, will dissolve into sugary, somewhat greenish goo, and simply wash away. It's really impressively wet out there, people.

Glub.
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calendula_witch

January 20 2010, 15:51:38 UTC 7 years ago

Oh yes.

I suited up in my REI head-to-toe green raingear (and hat and gloves and sturdy boots) for my morning walk...it didn't so much *leak* as, rather, sort of give up after a while. "What, more water? Oh, well, come on in."

seanan_mcguire

January 21 2010, 16:29:14 UTC 7 years ago

Exactly. There was a point where all the protective gear was just like "screw this, I am embracing wetness."

keristor

January 20 2010, 16:06:39 UTC 7 years ago

"It's too much to hope that these "high water conditions" will result in a giant squid getting stuck in the Bay and eating commuters. But a girl can still dream."

Only you could produce that sentence. Which is why I love you and hope that you won't turn into green goop and wash away...

seanan_mcguire

January 21 2010, 16:29:31 UTC 7 years ago

I did not! But I'm still wishing for the squid.

bercilakslady

January 20 2010, 16:14:35 UTC 7 years ago

I'm just dealing with high (above freezing) temperatures that mean things melt and then freeze into black ice overnight, just in time for my commute.

I'd rather have rain.

seanan_mcguire

January 21 2010, 16:29:56 UTC 7 years ago

I'd rather have seasonally appropriate for my region weather patterns.

ravenclawed

January 20 2010, 16:28:02 UTC 7 years ago

I think the whole country is having a weird Winter. Today, we have rain that hasn't made up its mind as to whether it freezes or not. But at least the non-freezing kind has a hope of melting our near-record snow.

Hope the author event turns out okay and that you and the cupcakes survive the trip.

seanan_mcguire

January 21 2010, 16:30:37 UTC 7 years ago

We did! They were delicious.

tikiera

January 20 2010, 16:36:11 UTC 7 years ago

Work flooded over the weekend, involving industrial driers being used on Monday. Work is always too cold, and the cold and the damp made it hellish.

And the overuse of electricity due to the driers meant my heater made the circuit break.

So I got to be wet and cold outside, then wet and cold inside.

Wet season and I are _not_ getting along - it needs to come when it's warm and I can enjoy it, not when it's cold.

Though, down here it, it has backed off to just cold and damp, a drizzle and nothing more. But I think it's just luring it me out until the Starbucks run, and then when I have my sugar and caffeine, it will come back, and wash said sugar and caffeine away.

seanan_mcguire

January 21 2010, 16:30:56 UTC 7 years ago

Eiiiiiiiiiew.

Please survive your wetness.

jacylrin

January 20 2010, 17:11:32 UTC 7 years ago

I had a friend who referred to the seasons around LA as Fire and Mudslide...

seanan_mcguire

January 21 2010, 16:31:08 UTC 7 years ago

Not inaccurate.

valdary

January 20 2010, 17:18:28 UTC 7 years ago

I think weird covers Northern Hemisphere some place 10 percent warmer than usual some 10 per cent colder, Some people in my area of Britain got snowed in for just over a week after the new year where usually snow only lays here a few hours.

seanan_mcguire

January 21 2010, 16:31:31 UTC 7 years ago

Yeah. It's impressive, in that "do not want" sort of way.

vixyish

January 20 2010, 17:19:18 UTC 7 years ago

It *is* a weird winter... up here we've still been having the requisite rain, of course, but it's been WAY warm for January.

seanan_mcguire

January 21 2010, 16:31:59 UTC 7 years ago

I am not okay with this!

allaboutm_e

January 20 2010, 17:47:03 UTC 7 years ago

Hope you and the cupcakes and cats survive unmelted!

seanan_mcguire

January 21 2010, 16:32:12 UTC 7 years ago

All was well, and the event was a lot of fun.

blythe025

January 20 2010, 17:53:49 UTC 7 years ago

Good luck with your cupcakes. Having to pick them up on foot right now would be quite a challenge.

I personally am loving the rain. In fact, I did a dance in it yesterday and may do so again today. I don't so much like some of the problems it causes, but what can you do. The rain is needed and good.

seanan_mcguire

January 21 2010, 16:32:34 UTC 7 years ago

The rain is definitely needed and good. I'm just hoping not to wash away completely.

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seanan_mcguire

January 21 2010, 16:32:47 UTC 7 years ago

WOULDN'T IT BE AWESOME?!

ladyfox7oaks

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trektone

January 20 2010, 18:25:35 UTC 7 years ago

There was a giant octopus, so a giant squid works for me (at least in the movies).

Good luck tonight, with or without waterlogged cupcakes!

seanan_mcguire

January 21 2010, 16:33:14 UTC 7 years ago

The octopus ate Tokyo, though; San Francisco got megashark.

trektone

7 years ago

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seanan_mcguire

7 years ago

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baka_kit

January 20 2010, 18:27:24 UTC 7 years ago

And of course Wet following On Fire leads to mudslides ...

I've lost power 3 times during the last 2 days, which makes Hobbes unhappy because it shuts off her Warms (aka the electric blanket).

And the next storm is supposed to be the REALLY bad one.

seanan_mcguire

January 21 2010, 16:33:32 UTC 7 years ago

Yeah. I want to hide in Kate's basement until it's over.

moshez

January 20 2010, 18:43:49 UTC 7 years ago

Ugh.
Driving to work today was a real pain in the a...
Apparently nobody thought to make 280 rain-ready by having proper drainage :(
[92 would've been worse, but people crawled through it so slowly it hardly mattered...]

seanan_mcguire

January 21 2010, 16:33:58 UTC 7 years ago

The amount of rain is rather ridiculous for even decent drainage.

ladymondegreen

January 20 2010, 19:37:09 UTC 7 years ago

No drowning!

seanan_mcguire

January 21 2010, 16:34:08 UTC 7 years ago

Undrowned.

ladymondegreen

7 years ago

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popfiend

January 20 2010, 20:03:05 UTC 7 years ago

On a different note, is it filling the reservoirs or is it just annoying the heck out of everyone?

seanan_mcguire

January 21 2010, 16:34:23 UTC 7 years ago

Sadly, the latter. :(

popfiend

7 years ago

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tibicina

January 20 2010, 20:51:56 UTC 7 years ago

El Nino + really weak jet stream = weeeeeird weather for most of the US.

seanan_mcguire

January 21 2010, 16:34:36 UTC 7 years ago

Do not want.

judifilksign

January 20 2010, 22:15:57 UTC 7 years ago

If you can't get a ride to the bakery, perhaps you can bring along a plastic garbage bag so that the large bakery boxes can be a little waterproofed as you carry them.

Good luck splashing to the store!

seanan_mcguire

January 21 2010, 16:34:48 UTC 7 years ago

I got a ride. Thankfully.

snowcoma

January 20 2010, 23:09:40 UTC 7 years ago

*sends you tarps, towels, and a wish for you to neither drown nor be on fire*

seanan_mcguire

January 21 2010, 16:34:56 UTC 7 years ago

Thanks, honey.

naurwen

January 21 2010, 00:46:07 UTC 7 years ago

welcome to my world.
Zurich's a way rainy city. We usually hold hysterical sun-worshipping-celebrations once the sun IS out.
Though I must admit - right now we have snow. Snow that will freeze overnight and will make me crawl around in the morning in fear of breaking something that I'd rather keep whole. Baaah.

seanan_mcguire

January 21 2010, 16:35:28 UTC 7 years ago

My objection is largely that the weather is so weird that nobody is prepared for it. So we wind up waterlogged and bewildered.

naurwen

7 years ago

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gorgeousgary

January 21 2010, 03:21:15 UTC 7 years ago

The same storm was also quite impressive in its attempt to drown Las Vegas yesterday (where I was on business). Where it demonstrated that it's a colossally bad idea to use sidewalk pavers whose surfaces become frictionless when wet, even in a desert where it doesn't rain often. I nearly slipped and fell down more times walking a hundred feet between hotels than I do walking four blocks along icy post-snowstorm DC sidewalks.

seanan_mcguire

January 21 2010, 16:35:41 UTC 7 years ago

Wooooooooooooow.

Yeah, no good.