Misery wrote:
kamiyu910 wrote:
Misery wrote:
Yes, I"m definitely drawn to water, mostly the ocean though more than anything else.
Rain doesnt do anything for me though. I live in Illinois, known to me as "damn stupid hole in the ground", and "rain" here half the time is basically "slime" as far as I'm concerned. It's.... not pleasant or refreshing (but in other places I find it can be) and it's almost ALWAYS in conjunction with some damn storm. The vast majority of the year the weather isnt very good, so while I can understand the attraction of the constant rain here for others, my own only desire is to get away from here as often as possible.
Oh I love storms! It was thundering like we've never had, nonstop thunder and it was awesome. And the wind was blowing pretty good too. I have no idea why I love storms so much. It might be because we don't get them?
I dunno, you might have a problem with storms if you were to stay in this area long enough.
I'm okay with them in concept. But not when they're happening every 5 minutes and ALWAYS producing tornadoes somewhere. Note, that's tornadoes plural, not singular. It makes for the sort of thing that you dare not step outside when it's going on. Even without those horrible spinning nightmares, the wind on it's own can be damaging, and can sometimes be enough to shove the car around a bit when driving (I live in the middle of nowhere; there's often not buildings around to buffer the wind at all). And let's not forget about the occaisional hail.
Oh yeah, when tornadoes come into play, kinda turns me off. We have bad wind here, sometimes up to 60+ mph and get massive dust devils (not really comparable to a tornado, but they do some damage). We often get rigs and trailers on their sides on the freeway because of the wind knocking them down. I so much prefer no wind... I don't know how many times things have been taken by the wind, never to be seen again, or how many of our smaller buildings have been knocked down...
Misery wrote:
Whereas when I've seen them in a place like Florida, it's sorta raining kinda, with an occaisional lightning bolt, and that's usually it. Granted, they have hurricanes there, but.... you get LOTS of advance warning when one has formed since they take about a million years to hit land. Oh, they'll have the occaisional heavy storm, but.... not EVERY DAMN TIME.
Of course, then there's winter. WINTER. This last winter, I swear I musta spent 50% of it completely stuck in the house due to ice preventing any form of travel. Ugh.
Yeah, the storms I saw in Florida were pretty nice. Lots of lightning, lots of rain, no wind. However, the mosquitoes were such that you could throw a brick on one and it would just pick it up and throw it back.... lol.
I don't think we've ever been housebound due to snow. I was born in the mountains here and it snowed a lot, but we'd always go out walking, or even sledding down the highway. Though that made it hard for people with emergencies... this one woman in our area had a heart attack after a massive snow storm that knocked down a whole lot of trees, and the ambulance couldn't get to her.
There has to be a happy medium somewhere...
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22 Jul 2015, 5:26 am
