Rain,rain, go away, come back another day.
@Hatley (163776)
Garden Grove, California
January 21, 2010 3:19pm CST
the old saying "be careful what you wish for" I see is really true. I was wishing several months ago that it would rain in Southern California in the wintertime. okay. it started pouring Monday afternoon, Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday afternoon, now Thursday Afternoon, and the weather forecasters say it will rain again Monday and Tuesday.Streets are flooded, no sun for days, will it ever stop? Has anyone ever really wished for something here and got more than they wished for? I mean come on we will have twenty inches of rain by the end of this week, how much do we need already? We have had one tornado in Huntington Beach, and wild surf, dangerous conditions so they advise people not to surf as if that will stop the surfers.
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@GardenGerty (160665)
• United States
22 Jan 10
If you say "don't" they automatically do. I guess it is best just not to say anything.
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of course I've always thought surfers were kindda crazy at BEST!@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
24 Jan 10
hi I wonder if there were surfers down at Huntington beach when that tornado blew through there, probably would as the surfs really high and idiots will go out although they had asked people to stay off the beaches.waterspouts were all over the place too, and thunderstorms and hail totally bizarre.
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@GardenGerty (160665)
• United States
22 Jan 10
Yes, I have wished for stuff, and then gotten too much, and also complained about things and ended up missing what I was griping about. I think it is best just to go with the flow, as it will change soon enough. I am glad you are safe and dry my friend, and I will pray for California right now, because the weather is really acting like their downfall.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
24 Jan 10
hi garden today was not raining and the sun came out,tomorrow is still supposed to be dry but another storms headed in on Monday afternoon. I think its not as wild though, hope not any way as we have had it for awhile here. the mudslides were the worst for the people living in those areas. they had to leave then come back.one family lost their home completely, the mudslide just took it with the slide. sad.
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@sacmom (14192)
• United States
21 Jan 10
That's what you get for wishing for it! LOL
I'm in CA too, but in the northern part. So I see rain every winter. And like there, it's been raining here (downpour at times) for days. We do get a break here and there (an hour here, a few hours there) and then it starts all over again. As it is, it is currently raining as I type this.
I don't mind the rain...most of the time. But this is getting ridiculous! 
I'm in CA too, but in the northern part. So I see rain every winter. And like there, it's been raining here (downpour at times) for days. We do get a break here and there (an hour here, a few hours there) and then it starts all over again. As it is, it is currently raining as I type this.
I don't mind the rain...most of the time. But this is getting ridiculous! 1 person likes this
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
21 Jan 10
hi sacmom oh my now after a flash flood the sun is shining through the rain, unbelieveable. he he. we have water seeping in around our window as theres a downspout right above the corner o f
the window outside. the sun is out, havent seen that all week.
Yes its getting a bit much now and more predicted come mon. and tues. too.
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@cream97 (29087)
• United States
21 Jan 10
It has rained today where I live at. It rained this morning. I was not that surprised, because all this week, the weather was very warm. It was in the 70s here.. In December!
I am glad for the rain. It was very warm this week and it is going to be this way, for the rest of the week too. I hope that it stops raining where you are at, so that the streets won't get so flooded. Sometimes, I can wish for something and never get my wish granted.
I am glad for the rain. It was very warm this week and it is going to be this way, for the rest of the week too. I hope that it stops raining where you are at, so that the streets won't get so flooded. Sometimes, I can wish for something and never get my wish granted.2 people like this
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
21 Jan 10
oh cream do I know that one, I have wished so hard for my son to get a good job, well any job really but no luck, has not happened, maybe a reason behind it all. It just had a cloudburst here, rain came down in sheets and sounded like a freight train going by. wow. odd this has been extra chilly for our state at this timne of year never above about fifty very strange.
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@fwidman (11514)
• United States
22 Jan 10
So this mess is all your fault, eh Hatley??? The only blessing for me is that the rain here causes very little damage and the flooding goes away a lot quicker than it does for those of "down below". The only weather I ever pray for is sunshine and warmth and more sunshine and warmth 
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
22 Mar 11
ho fwid,man finally getting all my unresolved discussions odne. lolyes I p rayed for rain b ut not that much.the weather did not know when enough
was too much. lol mother has done a lot of damae to Laguna Beach and the government has helped me now to replace and rebuild.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
24 Mar 11
typo should be the govermemt has helped them now to replace and rebuild.
why I typed me I will never know I do not own any property if I did I sure would not be here.
@joyadalia (1408)
• Philippines
27 Jan 10
Oh, I wish that torrential rain would stop there. Floods can be really dangerous. As for me, I also don't like rain. So, if it rains that long, I would also be really sad. Yes, sometimes we really have to be careful what we wish for. 
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
22 Mar 11
hi joyadalia we sure do have to be careful what we wish for
now tomorrow is the first day of spring so hope we get
all sun and some warm hours so I can get unchilled from
all the unseasonable cold weather we had earlier.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
24 Jan 10
hi Gabs that right you are called the green island by some. we are having a respite this weekend so maybe the next storm due Monday afternoon will not be as wild and devastating. we have leaks all over this Gold crest.lol lol lol. wonder what Gissi would think of the rain. He would need some little doggie boots lol lol.oh but of course he knows all about rain hes been there and done that. give him a hug for me and one for yourself. love hatley.
@cher913 (25782)
• Canada
22 Jan 10
i have heard (here in canada) about your amount of rain that you have had. we have not had that much snow so far this winter (yay!) maybe its because of all your rain! good news though, i heard that it is supposed to be nice (no rain) on the weekend for you folks!
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
24 Jan 10
hi cher today was just gorgeous sunny blue sky with a few white fluffy clouds but alas another storm is coming in on monday late but hopefully no flooding and hail storms and tornadoes this time.
@gemini_rose (16264)
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22 Jan 10
It is true that saying, I realised it myself a few months ago when I wished for something with a real passion and it came true, not at the time that I wished it but a few months later and it was a real shock to me. I have wished for something though a before that which also came true and that wish was about 11 years ago and that wish came true this week and I think in that case I got a little bit more than I wished for. We have had rain today, it rained non stop from late last night til late this afternoon, luckily we have had no flooding.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
24 Jan 10
this was the most bizarre weather Ihave ever seen for our area, and now they say the beaches are piled up with debris from old rocking chairs to kids toys, to auto parts, to broken umbrellas of all things, and they are waiting to clean it as it is considered contamined with offal that has run into the ocean . so hazmat people will have to do the clean ups as its considered unsafe for people to handle.yuck.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
24 Jan 10
Now that scares me because my husband has wished for one sizeable snowfall here pretty soon and then be done with it for the winter. Umm, for us a sizeable snowfall can go anywhere from an inch all the way up to a foot. I'm hoping that his wish will come true, but I'm definitely not thinking about a foot. I don't even think we would be able to leave our house if we were to have that kind of a snow. We live at the bottom of a hill that is never treated.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
24 Jan 10
hi dorannmwin oh do I remember the snow storms, blizzards and below zero weather,i grew up on a farm in South Dakota,maybe'thats why I have migrated to california too much snow in my childhood. living at the bottom of a hill, that could be problematic. lol. I had seen as a kid snow drifts higher than my head,no more of that stuff for me now.
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
24 Jan 10
Hiya Hatley,
It´s raining, it´s pouring and the temperatures here are not soaring they are going, going down again. But I don´t mind all the Dams here are almost full to the top which is really good news here has not been like that for sometime.
Well I suppose we have to take what ever comes just hope it´s not too much of one and none of the other. Summers here are so long, way too hot so I quite welcome this weather in many ways.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
22 Mar 11
hi lovingangels i am looking for warm and we have too much cold weather for Southern California. I want to feel too warm just once instead of
chilled to the bone. I suppose come the hot weather i will be moaning again its too hot. we are never satisfied.lol lol.
@bounce58 (17387)
• Canada
22 Jan 10
After the loads of snow last winter, and the experience of digging tires through slush more than once, I wished that winter would be a little milder this time. And guess what? I think I got my wish. It has only snowed here for a couple of days, and has been relatively warm.
I think the snow that was suppose to arrive here in the Northwest, never did and has hang around Southern Cal, as rain.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
24 Jan 10
hi bounce well glad you did get warmer weather, yes we sure got somones rain he he a nd snow up; in the higher elevations, made the ski resort folks real happy. I do not ski so it did not really matter to me, lol
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
22 Mar 11
hi kately yes security is the first thing and now after all these months
tomorrow is the first day of Sp ring.so hope for some much warmer
weather. Yes I am taking it easy recuperating from a fall as I still
have a sore knew.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
24 Jan 10
hi talkeen welcome. yes we were so dry we had forgotten what real rainstorms were like but this one was really destructive with a tornado and waterspouts and mudslides in the burn areas. even some hailstones and electrical storms. weird weather.
@Qaeyious (2357)
• United States
22 Jan 10
Rain I don't mind (but then I don't live on a hill or near a river.) I figure we haven't had our share the past few years, so this is a good thing. What I can't stand is the wind, and I will never ask for that. Wednesday the Sacramento Valley got gusts up to 60 miles per hour. And I had to go to a doctors appointment!
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
24 Jan 10
hi Qaeyious rain is one thing but hail and thunder and lightening and a tornado and flooding and mudslides all week. well we have a break for this weekend. another storm is coming Monday afternoon but it may not be so bad.Iheard about those gusting winds in the Sacramento Valley wow, no fun. scary too I have seen camper trucks blown over from those gusts in California in your area. hop;e things settle down now for awhile.
@GreenMoo (11834)
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22 Jan 10
It´s rained here for what must be a solid month, with just a short break where it snowed. It´s so depressing, day after day.
We had a dry summer last year and were complaining about a lack of rain to top up the water level for this coming summer season, but this is just more than enough.
We have working holidaymakers here just now, and it´s terribly hard to get anything done with them whilst it rains, rains, rains.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
24 Jan 10
hi greenmoo wow a whole month., we are lucky then at least it did not snow down here in Southern ca but up in the higher elevations they got enough to satisfy all the ski people. we will have a break tomorrow then another s torm is said to be coming Monday afternoon or evening. yuck.
@PeacefulWmn9 (10420)
• United States
21 Jan 10
Aw, I hear you, though. The weather is fickle...all or nothing. Happily, we've seen the sun a couple of days in a row, though it's been cold!
Hope the rain goes away for you, but comes back "as needed."
xoxo
Karen
@trisha27 (3494)
• United States
22 Jan 10
Oh wow I have heard about all that rain yall were getting. Man, that completely sucks. We got like 3-5 inches of rain here in Texas and it lasted for days and I could never do anything during that time. Actually I had wished for cold weather and like a few weeks ago, I got my wish, but it was not the temperature I was expecting. It was extremely colder than I wanted. It started feeling like it was 0s-15 degrees and here in Texas, are not used to those type of temperatures, but thats what I wished for.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
24 Jan 10
hi trisha yes I heard about that weather on the television
and its sure not the usual weather for Texas at all.brrr
its been colder here than usual too, and this old building that houses Gold Crest had leaks all over the place with waste baskets sittting there going drip drip drip. lol lol.
@megamatt (14292)
• United States
22 Jan 10
Well the good news is that the snow has finally stopped and melted quite a bit. The bad news is that its raining non stop. I have not seen the sun in weeks to be honest with you. The bad thing about it is that while its warmer during the day, it drops below freezing during the night. So all of the water from the rain and melted snow freezes. Then it warms up and melts. Then it freezes again at night. Repeat until the point of mind numbing frustrating.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
24 Jan 10
hi megamatt glad the snow stopped but the rain and freezing'is going to give you problems. your weather sounds like that I grew up with in SouthDakota lol.glare ice, cars sliding, snow drifts getting stuck, snow plows and blizzards and getting snow blind. had it all.
@agito121 (176)
• United Arab Emirates
22 Jan 10
Where i live this phrase is not really used because i live on a rather dry countr so when rain comes it's a nice experience and we dont want it to go away.
But sometimes it would rain too much that we want it to go away but if it doesnt rain we want it back... so it's a never ending cycle.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
24 Jan 10
hik agito you know really mankind is never satisfied we are always wanting it different. we really did need the rain but
not all in one big flood so to speak.
