"Ryanator122" (hawkeye122)
02/12/2014 at 22:22 • Filed to: None
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"Ryanator122" (hawkeye122)
02/12/2014 at 22:22 • Filed to: None | 1
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I see everyone else complaining about the snow, how it makes the roads "dangerous" and "hard to get to work", while we don't get crap.
(That was sarcasm. I know the snow is a hindrance and a serious safety issue.)
My county is currently gearing up for their worst drought season yet. Sure, it's currently raining, but this is the first rain we've gotten since MID DECEMBER, where, in a bout of curiosity, we got nearly 6 inches of snow. That's downright weird.
Soon enough though, May will roll around and it will be hotter than 100 degrees for 9 bajillion consecutive days, the fires will be out in full force, and I won't be able to breathe through the smoke.
/rant
Manuél Ferrari
> Ryanator122
02/12/2014 at 22:24 |
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yup us CA people are going to die of thirst soon
some towns are literally running out of drinking water
it's no beuno
d00mZ
> Ryanator122
02/12/2014 at 22:26 |
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Ditto. Everyones saying don't use too much water. "But we live in the Bay..." Screw it... still don't use water excessively.
jariten1781
> Ryanator122
02/12/2014 at 22:27 |
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Don't forget mudslides, earthquakes, and rolling blackouts (though I suppose there's other factors in the last one)
The Transporter
> Ryanator122
02/12/2014 at 22:41 |
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And when it finally does rain again it's going to be five inches in five minutes and those glorious LA hills are going to turn to jelly and *shazam* mountanslides!
F1guy hates duck billed F1 cars
> Ryanator122
02/12/2014 at 22:50 |
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I'm in San Joaquin county, and the weather's been awesome. Minus the lack of water, it's been amazing weather.
Plus, in California, there's no such thing as "winter tires" you just get new summer's. Unless you live in the mountains near Tahoe or truckee.
Axial
> Ryanator122
02/12/2014 at 23:21 |
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And that is why Florida is still preferable to me over California. Hurricanes were about the worst we had to deal with when I lived there, and in the six years I was there we only had bad one (Opal, 1995).
Otherwise, it has everything great about CA with far less of the draw-backs.
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Manuél Ferrari
> jariten1781
02/12/2014 at 23:23 |
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and radiation in the water from the nuclear disaster in japan
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Manuél Ferrari
> Axial
02/12/2014 at 23:24 |
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but doesn't the humidity do a number on your cars?
i heard ferraris from FL should be avoided because the leather sags off the dashboards due to the heat being mixed with humidity
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Ryanator122
> F1guy hates duck billed F1 cars
02/12/2014 at 23:48 |
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Or in the North...
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Axial
> Manuél Ferrari
02/12/2014 at 23:52 |
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I wouldn't know. Back then, I was too little to care about stuff like that. Our '92 Voyager survived, ha!
I just remember loving Florida and I wouldn't mind going back. The humidity here in VA is pretty intense as well, so the only difference is the presence of salt in the air from the Gulf (I lived in the panhandle). Salt on the roads in VA, or salt in the air in FL. Pick your poison, I guess.
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Manuél Ferrari
> Axial
02/13/2014 at 00:02 |
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FL and CA are basically the same
both are hot
both have cool places that you can fly to quickly
both have some natural hazards, issues
i guess it just depends on job opportunities and whether your friends and family are mostly in the west or east
Squid
> Axial
02/13/2014 at 00:44 |
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I'll take the dry heat in the summer over the humidity and constant rain in the summer of Florida. I love me that Mediterranean climate we have in California (well when it isn't acting up and we actually get rain in the winter time. . .).
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Axial
> Manuél Ferrari
02/13/2014 at 01:24 |
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Essentially, yes.
Though there was this local doughnut shop in Florida that is basically a trump card...
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Axial
> Squid
02/13/2014 at 01:26 |
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It's actually not the hazards that get me about California as much as it is the Bizarro-Europe mentality of the state itself. I am not comfortable paying taxes to a state that does to the rest of the USA what the rest of the world sees the USA as doing to it: flexing its muscles all the time to do things it really has no right to be doing to the larger body and that are of questionable benefit.
But that's the beauty of living in the USA: it's made up of several smaller governments, each with different values, and you can theoretically choose the one that best fits your lifestyle.