Oh It doesn't rain in California in the wintertime.OH No?

hi velver. yes and it has not stopped yet. really a lot more and a longer time than I have sign in years. at least this shoujld bring the water tables up so we might not have the dreaded wild fire season come this fall. its been so dark and gloomy and wet and cold. my son is always saying its warm when it rains but I beg to differ this rain is really cold. lol lol. Merrry Christmas'and Happy New Year.

hi velvet my I did not realize I had made so many typos. wow. Today is sunny but its really chilly outside and in here too. lol. only a few ,mpre days and we start a new year again.

The rain here can be cold too. N Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you.

okay once more lost my comment. I am staying dry but when out in this Sunday to do my Christmas shopping. all the time we were out it had stopped raining but when we got back it was like a cloud burst, A nice young lady with a huge u mbrella rushed over to me and led me dry to the front door. lovely, like Christmas should be. My friend nelda an I took my stash up to my room so she could catch her breath. she emailed me this morning and said her son had driven to work as it was just awful on the freeways and her sight is not so good, she has some retinopathy in her eyes. We are both diabetics.

I think rain is great when it comes occasionally and not very often. We have rains only during the month of June and July heavily. This time it started to rain early in the months of April and May.

hi Qaeyious no here it never snows nmor does it get quite as cold as it does in Northern Ca. this is so different as its stayed here jus tone storm rolling in after another. Some rains are like cloud bursts and we have not had that in many years.really odd so likely we will have a wet Christmas we never have a Snowy Christmas. lol lol lol.

This year we got a lot but in the past we have gotten hardly any. It's so unpredictable. This song reminded me of you ...enjoy....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9udwvkxqBU&feature=related

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hi sid NewEngland does get a lot of snow does it not? I am not sure if these changes are really global warming or mot. now its March 20th and rainy again and gloomy. I am so looking forward to spring and warmer weathere much warmer. lol lol .

hi celticeagel where I am here we are just far enough away from Los Angeles and the horrid smog an close enough to the Pacific ocena we get ocen breezes that keep that smog away.also there is really little to none industry here with plants spewinvg out that black crap.Yes I feat that this was indicitive of global warming.No we do really get sunshine here because thanfully we are far enough away fromn L.A. the towns in close are al ways so grey and dismal. we went to the city of Industry one year when my hubby was still alive.he was looking for a job and that city has a lotg of plants there and the sky was grey and stinky with chemical odors in it. I hated that. I would never live that c lose tol L.a Here we get the benefit of wind coming off the oc ean and that helps to key our air cleaner here.

hi celticEagle I so long to go down to the beach and once my knee is healed so I am pain free maybe i willspend a whole dollar and a half for an all day senior pass to walk along the ocean and just smell that salty air and relax. ending up of course at Charlie's chili he makes the best chili anywhere. Oh its been a long time but' I loved traveling through the Redwoods.

It sounds like a nice place to live. I would like the ocean breezes instead of the Spring and Fall breezes we get here. Brrr! Having the ocean near by would be nice too. I enjoyed times spent by the ocean. We went to a place near the Redwoods that had the pines coming right down to the beach. It was lovely. And I have been to the San Juan Islands that were lovely too. WOuld love to do some more traveling at some point.

hi fwidman I have not seen my son now for a week and a half. He takes the bus to come here then rides on his bike the rest of the way. I know its because of the rains as you cannot hold an umbrella and ride a bike. I have been staying in and dry after my adcenture sunday when my friend Nelda took me Christmas shopping. I t did not rain until we got into the store then coming out it was pouring like a cloud burst. I got out ot her car and here come a really sweet young Asian woman with a huge umbrella and she walked me the front door, so kind an d what Christmas is all about. lol

It's so true that our planet would remaind healthy and forever if everyone has great consciousness to love and to take care of our environment. I hate to see developers as well as the authorities concenred in my place simply fell countless of trees to make big money and never plan nicely to replace with new plants. I saw many big trees were felled when I was on my way to visit my friend. The road was no longer shady and cool like before. It's really a shame that they didn't realize how difficult and how much time had taken to grow such a big and vigorous green tree. I don't know what project would be carried on along the roadside. I pity the litte creatures like birds, insect, etc have lost their comfortable habbitat. Today is 22rn Dec here. It's still a few days to go before Christmas. I hope you would get all your items ready to welcome the great winter festival. I wish you and your loving son as well as your friends to have a happy Christmas

hi lkbooi The day after christmas and its so quiet around here as a lot of my fellow residents are staying the weekend with relatives. so'we have to make shift here for meals. lol. we are supposedly going to haved another rain s torm but the sun is out and hope the weather man is wrong this time.

hi lkbooi yes we all could do so much to stop global warming if we would all work together on it. this long spell is one rainstorm per day rolling in and dumping tons of water so unlike other years when we had almost none. at least we will not be quite as likely to have those dreaded wild fires and their distruction as we have had. I did get my Christmas Shopping done and we got back just as another cloud'bu rst opened up.

I saw on the news the other day just how flooded it was over there. That's pretty scary! You're lucky to live so close to the beach. I used to as well. However, that was a long time ago. I haven't been to the beach in ages. Oh yuck. Colds are never any fun. I hope you feel better soon!

hi sacmom here it is the 20th of march so far behing and again it rained last night and this morning cold and windy; and I have another cold. bah humbug. lol

hi sacmom yeah my son was telling me Thursday in Stanton where he is the streets were all flooded and a pedestrian was out of luck. even biking was nigh impossible., in rhe Malibu burn area homes were destroyed by mudslides. here its flat and we are only about five mniles from the Pacific ocean.I caught a nasty cold so am staying inside where its warm and dry.we did not have any rain on Christmas day but it rained last night its been sunny a d cold here today'the day after C hristmas. We are supposed to have more rain but hope its just light rain. lol

hi Dawn oh yes of course I am ,it rained hard last night with a thunderstorm with lightening and thunder something we seldom'do have here in 'Garden Grove. When we lived i n Tustin we were sort of on a hill and we had several thunder and lightening storms there. Tomorrow is the first dayh of spring. hope it warms up a bit anyway

h hi dawn again. just lost my comment. mylot glitches I guess . so copy paste. a friend of mine has a daugher who lives in the Sacrameto area. He told me that his daughter c alled him and said the wind was really blowing at about gale force. We seldom have gale force here but we have had a few when I was still working in the tustin and thewind blew out trasfromers so we were without light most ot the d ay. so as the library was too dark without the electric lights we all got a free days vacation with

It was pretty scary up here too, really strong winds!

no it was a glorious sunshiny day with blue sky all day then late last night it poured but I was snug in bed and nice and warm today too it was not raining but the party pooper weather man claims another storm is coming in but it will not be as bad as what we had. those rain storme die a lot of damage this time sepecially in burned over hillsides where homers slide down with heavyh mudslides., not close to where I am however.its flat here.

hi Nadinest! I also think of sun heat and beaches, it rained hard last night and some today, Today is Mar20th and tomorrow will be the first day of Spring. I hope it will be warmer soon as I am so sick of cold weather and rain. I am slowly but surely catching up on my unresolved discussions as I did not realize I had so many.

after my sojurn for C hristmas shopping Sunday I am staying in where its warm and dry. cou ld use some of last summers heat right now. lol I am hoping it stops by C hristmas day. it is unique in that we have not had so much rain in such a long time before, and really it is a lessing as we have had som e really dry winters and then the horrid ' wild fires with dry brush to sonsume they w ere scary. so at least it is not snow here. Merry C hristmas and a really happy new yeat.

hi much2say indeed it gorgeous out now and yesterday was really great to but I stayed in and mylotted as I am trying to shake a cold. I t rained again last night but the suns been out all day today. my table mate was finally able to get his walk in poor guy. He has sometype of arthuritis that makes him bent over so he is alway looking down. nice man but he does have a problem there.

Well, Hatley, it was pretty beautiful out yesterday, wouldn't you say? And today looks like another one!! I did look at the myLot weather coverage - it says it's going to rain over the weekend - but I thought everyone else said it was going to be sunny during Christmas. But as they say about our weather - WHO KNOWS! It has a mind of its own, I'm sure. All this wetness (and dryness) do make our conditions scary. Merry Christmas to you . . . see you in the new year!

hi bounce oh yes indeed I will take rain over snow and glare ice anyday i had thirty years of snow ,blizzards and closed roads. I like a warmer climate, Christmas turned out to be cold but really sunny and to day was the same.although weather forecasters are calling for more rain but say it will not be as severe. this past storm flooded streets and in the bu rned areas we had bad mudslides with people losing their homes.

hi thanks we finally got sun yesterday Christmas day and today too bvut it rained hard again last night. today its sunny and also its chilly in spite of the sunshine. lol lol.Its been years since we had that long a period of rain that did so much damage with mudslides destroying hillside houses amd flooded streets all over Orange county. I really hope the forecast for more rain is wrong.We need to dry out not get more rain here. lol.

hi thanks I am starting on my fourth year as I was gone from here for 11 months due to my son losing his job getting b ehind on the rent and being evicted so we became homeless. My son concerned for me at my age helped me to get into Gold Crest and he had help to get into Hope haven a gov.sponsored apt for men out of work so they will have a place to live whill they look for work , all men must have a real address before anyone will consider hiring them. now he finally has a small part time job but still looking for full time employ ment. I am hoping this 2011 will bring a change in ou r California employment its now mid Marh and no good economy changes yet.

Hi dear, Hope you all enjoyed the Christmas. What about the climate now? Pleasing ? As it is climate, we cannot expect anything. Due to weather change, the predictions also can go wrong. However, we can expect a favourble climate would help for the rest of days and which may make more pleasing days and good preparations for the New Year. The timing in the climate change has changed everywhere now. I think we need to take precautions to accept the change in the climate periodically. Thanks for your comments. How long you are here with myLot? 5 years?? Thank-s

hi gabs hope you and gissi have a warmer place now I was so worried that you and Gissi were so cold before. I do think the weather is changing all over. well it finally quit=long enough to have a sunny Christmas here then ironically it rained last night but today the day after Christmas is sunny but cold., I have had the space' heater on most of the time as I have a lousy head cold with accompanying cough and sore throat. I think my table mate that sits beside me shared her cold bugs via her coughing without covering her mou th. thanks a lot Celia.We have not had torrential rains like that in twenty some years.[

3snugglebunnies in the summer and fall it was sunny and beautiful her e as we do not get Los Angeles smog, they are forty odd miles away, and we get air coming off the Pacific and sun and blue skies until the wild fires in the fall. I hate those so much.No snow please, I had enough of that living in S outh Dakota as a kid. summers and falls are lovely but winters seem to last for ever even into April and May.

hi dragon Christmas day was pretty and sunny, but it did rain again late at night. HOwever today is cool but sunny and no rain yet although more was forecast.At least it did not snow here. all over the various towns here the streets were flooded and basements were flooded. the folks'in the fall wild fire areas have lost homes due to mud slides too. why anyone would build on a sloping hillside with unstable earth under them?they have to know that unstable ground when wet will slip and slip it did. the mud filled the homes through any opening then with mud inside and heavy mud and boulders slipping down behind the mud filled houses they simply pushed the homes down the sliding hillside out onto solid ground. nothing could be ssaved at all.total losses in most cases. the trees and shrubbery that had held the dirt were gone, just unstable mud.

hi Rawbill It rained last night but yesterday Christmas day the sun was out bu t it w as not as warm as usual, really sort of c hilly, today the sun is out all day and they say its around fifty out which to me is chilly.lol.I think there is more rain forcast but hope they are wrong.

hi Asleexix. I am wondering if all of us in our various countries co uld work together to reforest theforests and eliminater the pollution of creeks and sterams and our air maybe we could all do some good for our world we have so far screwed up with all our pollutions.Here now the sun is out again. hope the rains done for awhile

yspmyl No they were about thirty five miles away. the hillside homes were in the forest fire areas of last falls horrid fires. the shrubbery and trees that wo uld have held the hillsides intact were gone and the earth was oversaturated with rain so mud slide down filled the homes up then just slid on down the hillsie w ith heavy boulders in the mudadding weight to the mud and the homes slid right on down onto solidground. they were destroyed completely.Here where I am we are on flat stable land. this weather has certainly been bizzare.