Didn't read the previous blog entry, or missed the comment, but I have always know California's seasons (and I was born, raised and lived there for 38 years) as fire, flood, mud and drought. Not too different from yours, but much less commercial ... guess that is the way of all things.

:king: Dr. Mr. Snow Dog

Didn't read the previous blog entry, or missed the comment, but I have always know California's seasons (and I was born, raised and lived there for 38 years) as fire, flood, mud and drought. Not too different from yours, but much less commercial ... guess that is the way of all things.

 

:king: Dr. Mr. Snow Dog

Central Coast California seasons:

"Will we ever see the sun?" season (April through June: summer fog season)

Fire Season (July through October)

"Will it ever rain?" season (October through early December)

"Will it ever stop raining?" season (December through March) -- except in drought years, in which case it's "How can it still be Fire Season?"

I came up with eight, once, but I used other criteria.

Notice that temperature is not a factor at all in coastal California seasons.

(oh, and as for the storm system: we lost our power for a bit over twenty four hours, which makes us kind of lucky, I guess)

Didn't read the previous blog entry, or missed the comment, but I have always know California's seasons (and I was born, raised and lived there for 38 years) as fire, flood, mud and drought. Not too different from yours, but much less commercial ... guess that is the way of all things.

 

:king: Dr. Mr. Snow Dog

Hmm. I was born and raised here too, albiet for only about 24 years. From my experience, Fires continue well into droughts, as do floods with mudslides. I term mine based on that season's set of natural disasters, which is about the only way to tell the months apart, some years.

@ Lucy. Power. Oy. Twice, the power failed on me while I was trying to log off and get away from work on Saturday. Luckilly, I learned form the first time and had been saving about once every other minute, so I didn't actually lose anything the second time, but I still had to wait for my computer to reboot so I could turn over my logs. If power had stayed out in a more prolonged fashion, I would have had to stay there until it came back on. Which was why I cursed a blue streak the entire thirty seconds we were "interupted" but before the generators kicked in. I think I shocked my coworkers with my vocabulary, to be honest. I don't quite remember what exactly I said, but I'm sure much of it was anatomically impossible.