Weather Perspective

Megan has laughed about the hysteria that happens here in California when rain is expected, but now I have seen it first-hand. For days, the local news media has predicted a "return to winter" here. To them, it means cooler temperatures and some rain. (They were calling it "heavy rain" although only forecasting 1-2 inches.) Oh yes...and there was wind. Because of the ocean and mountains, I'm not sure how they can make any blanket forecasts for the area because the weather is hugely different just a few miles down the road. (I think I might have mentioned before that we took a day trip last summer where we watched the temperature go from 72 in Sunnyvale, to 55 in San Francisco, to 90 in Napa Valley--a distance of maybe 100 miles.) In any case, the TV news had reporters stationed in various places throughout the Bay area yesterday reporting on the weather. "No rain yet." "The streets will be slick because there hasn't been any rain for two weeks to wash oil off the pavement." "Flooding on the roads is expected." (Apparently they put out "high water" signs more mere puddles on the roadways.) I shouldn't make fun because what one is used to is the norm; still, I wonder how native Californians would fare in weather like we had before I left Indiana! Amid the "return to winter" here, there are gardeners out mowing the grass...

Meg and I didn't do much yesterday. We did crochet some. (She is just learning.) We ate well, as usual. Last evening, Meg and Denis and I watched the movie "Yankee Doodle Dandy"--they for the first time. It has always been one of my favorites. Had to laugh--the whole time the movie was playing, Meg had her iPhone in hand looking up things about George M. Cohan on the Internet. Times are sure different now!