Post 106: Rain, Rain Go Away

The rain has been crazy here lately. It is very stormy outside. The winds are a-howling, the trees are a-swaying, and the temperature is dropping. The time is coming. It is almost winter. Soon, the rain will give way to snow. Am I looking forward to that? Yes and no.

I like the snow. Snowball fights and snow angels are both fun activities for the snow. However, it doesn't really snow that much here. Not really, anyway. When I visit my family in New York, it isn't a lot of snow if you can see over the piles of it. People still leave their houses after four - five feet of snow. Here if there is a foot people start getting panicky.

So, it isn't really a lot of snow to work with. Also, it tends to melt during the day and then become ice. Ice isn't as fun. And it means the snow is not really building up and that it isn't readily available when I'm willing to freeze my toes off.

So, do I like snow? Yes.

But I don't like the cold. And I would like the snow to have a use. I sound very practical sometimes, thinking about the value of having a use. However, not everything needs a use or to serve a purpose, but it doesn't have one or the other it better be warm or it better be really pleasant to look at.

I liked the rain last Wednesday. I went to Fright Nights and it bucketed down. Which might not sound like a huge amount of fun, but the rain drove a lot of people home. So, there was really short lines for everything. I think the longest my friends and I ever had to wait was about 20 minutes for one of the Haunted Houses. Some of which we just walked right into. We managed to get through like four or five rides and ALL the houses.

We had friends go the next night, which was rain free, and they only made it through two and waited hours to go through. So, rain was on our side for that.

It was so cold, though. I was freezing by the time I got home.

Still, while the rain was nice then, it isn't any more. Now it is more of a hindrance than a help. And who wants to walk home on a grey, cold rainy day. Anyone? Probably not.

I miss Summer. I won't as much when it gets here and the temperature reaches scorching, but right now I miss it.