Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Quit Whining About The Weather!

I'm in New York, New York, The city so nice, they named it twice. Tired of the rain Stumptowners? "I'm ready for some sun!" I keep hearing. Well, try a day out here. Yesterday it was 4,000 degrees, 80% humidity and no breeze. I'm talkin' Africa hot. Tarzan couldn't live in this heat. Of course the day was capped off by a monsoon-like torrential downpour about 8:30 pm, which was perfectly timed to soak everyone walking home from dinnner, etc. What a miserable climate.

And of course I should point out that during this kind of heat, the City That Never Sleeps offers some stunning new smells that I doubt exist anywhere else.

A trip out here is a powerful reminder to me of how fortunate we are to live in a city like Portland.

So it rains some, and we have cloudy days in the winter. So what.

"You gotta be tough to live out west..."

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