We're having a bad bout of Global Warming out here in California. It's been raining for days. The other day, I was driving down the 101, and I couldn't even see the Hollywood sign for all the rain on my windshield:
Stogie is even reporting having trouble, well, smoking his requisite amount of stogies:
By the way, though it was raining, I didn't have quite the same problem as Stogie. I sat on my covered porch and smoked a CAOMaduro (Pepper and leather flavor - a great smoke) and listened to Handel's Messiah (Taverner Choir version) this afternoon.
The rain was beautiful, although I'm sure it signals the end of the world. Well, the end of Al Gore's world anyway.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Fast-moving thunderstorms brought new waves of rain on Sunday to Southern California, following days of drenching weather and heavy mountain snowfall.You can see, we've really got it bad out here.
Up to 2 inches of rain had fallen by early afternoon in valley and coastal areas since nightfall Saturday, with about double that in the mountains, the National Weather Service said.
"We're not completely done with this storm yet," forecaster Steve Vanderurg said.
Officials said the rain brought a threat of serious slides on hillsides stripped of vegetation by last year's wildfires. Mud and minor rock slides prompted authorities to shut a highway through a San Diego-area burned between Ramona and Escondido.
The Los Angeles County and Orange County fire departments were on standby for possible flash floods and slides. Flash flood watches remained in effect through Sunday night for Los Angeles, Ventura and San Bernardino counties.
In downtown Los Angeles, Sunday's basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and Cleveland Cavaliers was delayed 12 minutes after a small leak in the Staples Center roof allowed a steady flow of raindrops to fall on the court.
The Santa Anita race track in Arcadia, meanwhile, canceled horse races for the sixth day this month because of wet conditions on the synthetic track.
... Three skiers were killed Friday by a trio of avalanches that swept through canyons outside the trails of Mountain High ski resort at Wrightwood, northeast of Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Mountains. A fourth man escaped the avalanches.
...Avalanches are unusual in the San Gabriel Mountains, but the peaks had been hit by 3 feet or more of new snow this past week, drawing thousands of skiers and snowboarders.
Stogie is even reporting having trouble, well, smoking his requisite amount of stogies:
On a rainy, blustery day like today I can't even venture out to have a fineThe despair is palpable.
cigar. However, I can look at funny cartoons on the web.
By the way, though it was raining, I didn't have quite the same problem as Stogie. I sat on my covered porch and smoked a CAOMaduro (Pepper and leather flavor - a great smoke) and listened to Handel's Messiah (Taverner Choir version) this afternoon.
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