Comments on: Living in paradise

By: walt

walt — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:51:23 +0000

Belatedly–Laura, we can get as much winter as we want, just two hours away: The Sierra Nevadas. (Well, you couldn’t actually get there at the peak of that storm, but there was plenty of winter when you did.)

Glad I missed national hyping of the local weather. Sure, we lost power for a few hours; sure, a fair number of trees went down. Doom? Not so much. Right now, in the middle of an apparently endless “storm series,” it’s partly cloudy outside, albeit chilly for this area (41F at 7:45 a.m., with a predicted high of 52F). Note “chilly,” not “bitter cold.” (Fortunately, Midwinter/Philadelphia was also chilly, not bitter cold. I read about Minnesota at the moment, and it’s almost painful even to read…)

By: Jonathon

Jonathon — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:47:24 +0000

Laura: Come to Pittsburgh! Plenty of snow and ice—though today we’re just having 40–60 mph wind storms all morning—and some of the best produce in the Midwest, thanks to the Strip District, a collection of restaurant wholesalers that sell retail, too. . .

Oh, yeah, I was going to respond to the original post. . .
Iâ€™ll say this for the local press: Theyâ€™re calling this â€œthe storm of every couple of years,â€ not hyping itâ€¦
I wish that had carried over into the national press: I heard so many reports (on NPR, no less!) of impending doom for the Bay Area I actually called my parents to make sure my 80-year-old grandfather in Stanford was ok. . . . They were perplexed, to say the least. (Apparently he’s fine…)

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:53:34 +0000

We live in the ice and snow regions just so we can mock you, Walt.

Actually, as lovely as that part of California is, I can’t quite imagine not having winter , the kind that comes with snow and ice, though I’d be happy to live in a place with more produce.