If it doesn't stop raining I am going to go insane
or more insane, anyway.
I'm so frickin' sick of rain rain rain rain I was just yelling at the clouds to get their sorry, soggy asses to California.
They are not listening to me, but continue to pour down more rain on ground that is so saturated, there is not a spot on my acreage that doesn't squish when you step in it like a big gloppy sponge.
I have to fix holes in the roof and a bunch of other stuff outside, but it won't quit raining long enough.
At least it's been in the 60s so there is that, and at least rain doesn't trap you like snow but DAYUM.
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It's been freezing. 
Feels like cold hell.
Pay no attenton to us in SoCal. When the earthquakes come we'll get our comeuppance. 
Did I mention it was 80° here today and it will be 83° Saturday?
Trying to get this place fixed up to sell so I can move out there.
You guys were actually warmer than we were here in TN for a lot of days this winter.
I can't wait to get out there. 
Have fun on your walk! 
not quite as liberal as boulder, but just as beautiful, less expensive and less likely to be hammered by snow in the winter. of course, a lot of people in my city complain about us becoming boulder-lite because we voted to ban fracking and the city council tried to ban plastic grocery bags (holy shit, you would have thought they ordered the murder of all first borns).
we're in the same congressional district as boulder, so no bagger for a rep (although polis is supporting the fast-tracking of tpp). my state rep is sponsoring death with dignity and universal healthcare legislation this session. my sheriff, however, is a nut who first sued to overturn the gun control legislation passed after the aurora shooting and is now suing to overturn amendment 64.
one thing that catches people off-guard when they move here is how white it is. there's a large hispanic/latino population, but there's a reason my area is called vanilla valley. both cities are college towns, so you do have to deal with whooping idiots if you go out on the weekend. csu is planning on shoe-horning a new football stadium in the middle of town and that has the community in an uproar (i think it's a horrible idea). our local paper is a gannet rag.
it's about a 45 minute drive to boulder from here, but you could look at one of the surrounding cities like longmont or lafayette if you want to be closer to boulder.
i only go to denver for museums and concerts, so i really can't say anything about living there, and i'm definitely with you on the springs. beautiful country but far too conservative.
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I can live anywhere since I have a work-at-home position ( ghostwriter, not selling weed for all you smart asses! ) that isn't going anywhere any time soon. They really like my work. I just have to get more clients lol.
But I want to be out in the boonies like I am now. It's so peaceful here most of the time, it freaks people out when they come from the city to visit.
I was in contact with a gal who wanted to share a place on a horse farm somewhere about halfway between Denver and Aspen, which is what I'm looking for. Really nice person. But then I had planned on keeping this place. The way the South keeps going backwards, I don't see any hope for anything positive in TN in the future.
The South just gets poorer and poorer and I'm done with it.
Instead of buying right away, I plan on renting for a few months until I find something suitable. I didn't know anything about Ft. Collins before your post, so that's another area I will consider now, knowing that there's no fracking.
Thank you so much, fizz!
so that's funny you mention it. It seems like such a cool, funky place from what I've read.
I hope you win that fight
Tomorrow should be nice.
I've been here a while already. It's Sprummer where I live and raining and raining and raining and hot and muggy and horrible feeling. I'm already insane. I'll save you a seat for when you get here.
I'll bring the cinnamon buns and straitjackets!
Look for the crazy lady wearing flowered muck boots! 
Flood or drought.
Seems no in between
( writing a song ober here )
If I could send you some rain, I surely would do so.
Yelling at the clouds did not seem to phase them. 
Did I mention? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
We get a substantial rainfall here on the Cumberland Plateau, very lush Eastern Woodlands are the result.
But this is becoming an ark-level deluge!
Love the "fungal jungle, Freon-controlled life support system!" 
At least up here, it is muggy, but the summers are cooler than down where the flatlanders live. I rarely ran the AC before it stopped working a few years back, but it does get super moldy here too due to the rain, so I would get it fixed if there weren't a million other things to work on first.
The moss is loving it.
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Then when you've scraped off your rust and moss, send the rain our way.
I could use some rays and some of that Cali medical grade! Gotta be a "good" girl here in the Dark Ages of the South.
At least it is nice and warm here, in the 60's now which is my favorite temp to work outside. If it would just stop dripping!
I wish I had the power to send next week's rains to you, but I will focus real hard and imagine all you beautiful CA peeps doing a naked rain dance on the coast! Then maybe some rain will manifest.
Make sure it's a really BIG big box. Check.
Address to calimary in californy. Check.
It's on its way! Tracking number: 1i2a3m4s5i6c7k8of9i0t
Hope you guys get some gentle, abundant rains soon, calimary
Thank you for the great play-by-play, though! Made me literally thirst for more!
I have often wondered why we couldn't somehow ship the big hills of snow scooped off the streets in Boston or some other significantly snow-bound city and ship it out here? We'd be helping them out by getting rid of it.
Btw - THIS kind of pipeline I wouldn't object to. If there's a rupture - it'd be water that spills. Wonder if something like this could be built from the East Coast to the West Coast? Heck, I've heard many a lament from the colder climes regarding how they wish somebody could come in and take all this snow off their hands. This Angelena would LOVE to oblige!!!!
Hmmm... couldn't we put together some lollapalooza (or, ending in L.A., maybe LALApalooza? - SoCApalooza? And also NorCApalooza?) of a job project, nationwide? I bet we could hire a lot of people who need jobs, especially because it'd have to go through some areas that are depressed. Something pretty much STRAIGHT ACROSS THE COUNTRY. Not any of this gerrymandering-type stuff, with the pipeline going directly east to west, give or take a few mountains and-or swamps and private property and such. So you angle it a little here and there. You get my drift. And you build a pipeline running North-to-South from New England to joining the main East-to-West one. Same thing maybe from the Pacific Northwest south to CA. Maybe something connecting upper Minnesota with the main East-to-West line in the middle of the country? We need the water, and we also need the major-league snow removal, which would have to be melted down into water to be filtered and pumped from the snow area to the dry area. And we can always use more jobs, particularly in some areas that I'm sure are depressed and the local communities could use a little "vitamin shot".
Just imagining. I don't know if this is even feasible. Merely an idea that just came to mind totally at random. But what the heck.
BOSTON: Hello, California?
CALIFORNIA: Yeah.
BOSTON: It's flooding again up here.
CALIFORNIA: Halleluiah, we'll open the tap!
Total win/win, right?
and have had my well pump die a few times, so I can relate.
A sense of desperation sets in, which is wholly different from the severe annoyance and frustration I was having early this morning!
Let's hope if we all focus real hard, California will get some much needed thirst-quenching.
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it is 83 degrees here in sonora ca, our rainy season was last november . the weather forecasters just tease us with chances of rain and then they dissappear off the 10 day forecast . on edit been doing raindance , however , central keeps ignoring me !! hiumbug
we are being teased with sunshine, but I'll believe it when I see it!
I'm not climbing up on a ladder when it's raining, even if I don't have to go 35'!
It's still raining outside. I have decided it will rain forever, and I am using autocad to design an ark. 
