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11/30/2007: "Weekend Eye Candy - StormWatch Edition"

Nothing I know of is as fun as watching the local newsmedia freak out every time it rains. You'd think it was acid falling from the sky based on the breathless, panicked reports the guys in the field provide. The rest of the country can only roll their eyes.

What does this have to do with anything, you ask? Simple. As I write this, it's raining like hell outside - first time in as long as I can remember. While the news broadcasts are all a-twitter with news of the impending doom from above, I'm reminded of a different way that rain has been portrayed on screen - by Gene Kelley via "Dancing In The Rain".

Of course, Gene wouldn't exactly make it as Eye Candy. Fortunately, I have an appropriate substitute. All I know about her is that her name is Lisa, and she likes to dance in the rain. And since I like Lisa, that's all it takes ...

I'll take one moment to be serious. Most of us laugh at the way the rain is covered, and are pleased to see a little of the wet stuff falling from the sky, since it's nothing than a minor nuisance. But for those living in the burn areas of SoCal, where the vegetation has been burned away and there's nothing to hold up the hillsides, this kind of rain is pretty scary. There's been reports of some flooding, but no mudslides. Let's hope it stays that way ...

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On Saturday, December 1st, Ravelling Tangler said:

(sigh !)

It is raining like a monsoon here, way over on the East side of the Atlantic, but we don't get sights like that in Winter (even though winters are warmer this century).

Still we seldom get landslips or mudslides either.

Isn't it a grotesque illustration of "Murphy's Law" that if it had rained before the fires started all would be well now ?