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01/16/2007: "When Did I Move to Minneapolis??"
The pundits like to say that we don't have weather here in SoCal. Technically, though, we do have weather ... it's just very limited. Our highs are lower than most, and our lows are higher than most. We spent most of the year in that cozy belt between 55 and 85 degrees, so the severe weather that others deal with is just something we see on TV.
Until now.
I woke up this morning, and was blowing smoke trails across the bedroom. My bathroom heater has a thermometer built in, and told me that it was 45 degrees - in the house! The Arctic Express has definitely made a stop in California.
Of course, there's much worse news than just the tip of my nose getting numb. California's farm crops - which make up as much as a quarter of the nation - are getting hit hard. As much as half of the citrus, strawberry and avocado crop may have been ruined by sub-freezing temperatures. I even had frost damage to a Mexican sage in my backyard - a mile from the beach!
My house is your basic beach house - no insulation or central heating - and I'm really missing a thick layer of R-22 right about now ... 
