*flails around blindly*

[thistlechaser]

Winter is supposed to be our rainy season. We go nine months or so without a drop of rain, then the three months over winter we get our rain, usually a couple storms and some drizzle.

This year it's rained once. (And not even a storm, light rain.)

Forget about the poor plants and grasses, forget our impending shortage of water to drink and wash our cars and water those poor plants, the air is so horrible!

I had to take my contacts out at 6 PM today, they were just so dry and miserable I couldn't see. I HATE having to use my glasses, I feel like I have blinders on all around my eyes (which makes sense, since outside of the frames there's no prescription coverage).

I sound like a darned worgen, too. *SNORT*SNIFFLE*SNORT* My poor sinuses! Ow ow ow.

I'm starting to consider doing a rain dance.

Comments

[voidmagus.livejournal.com]

Crazy people living in the desert. Makes no damn sense, I tell ya.

[pure-trance.livejournal.com]

We don't live in the desert that's SoCal :0 At least I don't think we do?

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not like there's sand around, but based on rainfall, maybe?

It sure feels like it currently!

[pure-trance.livejournal.com]

I dunno, we are really close to the bay and marshlands (shoreline area etc.)..

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, good point...

Edit: Let's see what Google says!

There are two types of desert. One is hot and dry, and the other is cold and even Arctic. They have very dissimilar climates and different types of plants and animals live in them(though generally not a very wide variety). These two distinct types do have one thing in common, however: they both receive less than 10 centimeters of precipitation per year. Such a scarcity of rainfall is all it takes for a desert to be a desert.

I'm pretty sure we get a lot more than that, even this year?

[pure-trance.livejournal.com]

Yeah I think earlier in the year we got a lot of rain, more than we had in the past. Anyway I am pretty sure we get more than 10cm.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Hrm. If my math is right, 10cm is 4 inches. We're below that for sure this year. I think that one "storm" we got was below a quarter inch. Maybe there's some year requirement as well, like you have to get less than 10cm in most every year.

[pure-trance.livejournal.com]

Interesting, I thought we got a lot of rain this year, earlier on. Unless that was last year.

But yeah, it must be something like that...I mean you can't live in a desert one year, but not most of the time. It's probably an average.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

You're right, it must be an average. And yeah, last year we got more than 200% of our usual rain. Hopefully it'll hold us over.

[pure-trance.livejournal.com]

I don't really know how to read this, but if you can make more sense of it:

http://www.valleywater.org/Services/MeasuresAndReadings.aspx

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Well... no snow! So it's half-win? Who needs to drink, anyway! I'll absorb all my water from, um, the sun!

[pure-trance.livejournal.com]

I don't mind it not raining lol (I have bad shoes for it :P) but I do mind all the haze, bleh.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't mind it raining at night, I love falling asleep to the sound of it on the roof.

[pure-trance.livejournal.com]

Very true~