Rain, Rain Go Away!
 

It's monsoon season here in San Diego and on top of that it is really fucking cold! I hate wet and freezing winters! Very miserable! I wouldn't mind it if it wasn't so damn cold. I'm lucky I didn't get testicular torsion just by stepping outside the house this morning. This is Cali; we're not suppoesd to get weather like this! Brrrrrrrrrrr!

HMMNN ok i'll cross you off my list to invite over for a snowball fight :yes: But seriously chin up it won't last forever and soon it be sunny and warm back to the typcial SO CAL weather and you'll be able to laught at all of us north easterns :hug: Jennifer

You're really breaking me up. I feel soooooooo sooorrrrryyy for you suffering through that rain and extremely cold temperatures. Maybe you would like to trade places with me. It snowed everyday for the last week here with the temperatures down around -20C to -25C. It finally cleared off last night and the temperature dropped down to -35C. Today's high was a balmy -26C. The winds were out of the NW and the windchill made it feel like -49C. The forecast for the next week and a half is temperatures of around -33C for overnight lows and -25C for daytime highs. The winds aren't expected to drop off at all. I have to plug in my car every night so that it will start in the morning. So yeah I really feel all the pain and suffering that you are going through. [/sarcasm]

It's not that...
 

It's just that crappy weather seems to follow me. When I was being mobilized for deployment in Killeen TX, there was a whole slew of thunderstorms that lasted for about 45 days; pretty much the whole time my unit was there. We had flash flood warnings daily and our barracks nearly got wiped out. The weather cleared once we left... When we touched down in Kuwait, half of my platoon nearly went to the hospital for dehydration. A couple people had to be sent back to the states because of heat stroke. When we got to Balad, the average temperature was 145 degrees. During winter, It snowed for the first time in Balad in 86 years. I got very sick and almost died over there. Most of the symptoms pointed to meningitis however when they drew a blood sample, my blood clotted within 15 seconds. A spinal tap determined I didn't have meningitis but they didn't know what was wrong with me. Ever since that, I have been very wary of unusually weird weather. Bad shit seems to happen when the weather gets funky.

We get snow about once/decade. I would love to at least experience the weather you describe.

Perhaps you're a Rain God

It certainly does sound like bad weather follows you. I can understand your feelings. I've been to the Middle East, but fortunately I've never experienced the heat that you described. I've never been through 45 days of thunderstorms either and I sure don't want to.

Come on up north Tracy. I can't guarantee weather like this all winter though. It may suddenly warm up to about -10C in January or the temperature could suddenly plunge down to -40C. I can guarantee that if you go to Churchill, in the winter, you will experience -40C and a blistering windchill. Churchill is on the shore of Hudson Bay and it's always windy there. For something different try going north of the arctic circle in January to experience total darkness for the complete day. It's something I never gave much thought to until I experienced it.