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Vanessa wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "So, did anyone in CA hear about the bomb in Modesto?? the bomb squad came right by my school and exploded it with the robot! scarry stuff. and we are learning about that poor baby..."Thanks! It makes me glad I live so far away from my school :)
Hi everyone . .I'm from Kansas too, and I would disagree with the weather issues . . its a joke around here if you don't like the weather wait 5 minutes. Yesterday 30 miles from me they had 6 inches of snow and we got nothing and today it was in the 50's and by Friday the 70's . . very crazy . . hahaha
hahaha that is amusing in a sucky sort of way, if you know what i mean!
Hello everyone,I live in Rancho Cucamonga, CA, which is about 40 miles East of Los Angeles, CA. I was born in Shreveport LA but raised in Oakland, CA.
haha i just heard a quote about ca weather that i wanted to share with you."there is only three types of weather in california, hot, cold and flowers."
so true! we are in flowers right now
Deborah wrote: "Hello everyone,I live in Rancho Cucamonga, CA, which is about 40 miles East of Los Angeles, CA. I was born in Shreveport LA but raised in Oakland, CA."
Another Californian, and I was born in Lake Charles, LA. It's a small, small world.
Elizabeth, we have the flowers as well. Only my daffodills are already dead. They came out too early when the weather decided to take a little detour.
Hi Deborah! I'm from Georgia and right now EVERYTHING here is yellow due to all the pollen from the trees. Wreaks havoc on the allergies, lol!
Vanessa wrote: "Deborah wrote: "Hello everyone,I live in Rancho Cucamonga, CA, which is about 40 miles East of Los Angeles, CA. I was born in Shreveport LA but raised in Oakland, CA."
Another Californian, and..."
Modesto :)
Alyssa (Hesperia) wrote: "Hi Deborah! I'm from Georgia and right now EVERYTHING here is yellow due to all the pollen from the trees. Wreaks havoc on the allergies, lol!"haha i imagine that must suck
My husband's from GA. He lived in Rome, Rockmart, and Atlanta, and he was born in Athens. The world just keeps getting smaller.
Elizabeth wrote: "haha i just heard a quote about ca weather that i wanted to share with you."there is only three types of weather in california, hot, cold and flowers."
so true! we are in flowers right now"
Okay, I have to reply to this one again. Right now it's cloudy and it's supposed be down in the 50s a couple days this week. It was 80 degrees last weekend! I would have to add that California may have three weather types, but sometimes it can't seem to make up it's mind on a day to day basis.
Gina wrote: "My name is Gina, and I live 40 miles north of Houston TX in Conroe."How funny is that! I'm over in Bryan (TX), but only for 2 more months. My hubby got an internship just outside of Chicago that starts in June. Not sure exactly where we'll be. Somewhere in the Bolingbrook/Naperville area, we think. I've never been up there... not even a layover at the Chicago airport, so it's going to be an adventure, for sure!
Vanessa wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "haha i just heard a quote about ca weather that i wanted to share with you."there is only three types of weather in california, hot, cold and flowers."
so true! we are in flow..."
hahaha SO TRUE!
I live in Perry Michigan. I was born in Atlanta and lived in Los Angeles for most of my life, but I consider Michigan to be home. Just waiting for everything to green up now for spring.
Lisa wrote: "I live in Perry Michigan. I was born in Atlanta and lived in Los Angeles for most of my life, but I consider Michigan to be home. Just waiting for everything to green up now for spring."i go to michigan every three years in the summer for family reunions. but we stay in brimley.
We're down in the LA area right now and yesterday it finally warmed up in the low 80's. What a welcome change from all the cold we've had. It's supposed to go down again, though. Boy, am I ready for Spring to stay.
I live in Phoenix, AZ. I have lived here pretty much all my life, with the exception of when I was in the Air Force like about 150 years ago. Then I lived in Denver, Co and Cheyenne, Wy I remember the first time my car frosted over. I had no idea how to get the ice off my windshield. I have also lived in southern Il-near St. Louis,Mo and Cleveland,Oh. I loved those places but I love my family more. As you can figure it is HOT, especially now. It is also what is laughingly called the monsoon season. What happens is the rain evaporates before it hits the ground. People say but it is a dry heat, but it is still miserable. If there is no moisture, it remains hot even in middle of the night. So realistically, at midnight it can still be over 100. If we do get the moisture the nights may cool off a bit. Winters are wonderful but from April on it really starts to get warm.
Vanessa wrote: "I think we had snow one time since I've lived here. It's kind of funny because there have been nights when it's been cold enough, but the cold and rain never seem to come together. If it snowed her..."If it is like Phoenix the snow will melt as soon as it hits the ground. Phoenix doesn't snow often maybe five or six times that I can remember. Only twice has anything ever stuck and that was just a skif
At the end of August at least one girlfriend and maybe two others and I are driving through California up into Oregon, to see my sister and then into Washington and Canada. This is a real dream trip because we do not have a timetable. Maybe some of you that live in those areas can give me ideas of sites to see. We are driving the Pacific Coast Highway one way and through Yosemite the other.Although I live next door to California I really have never really been there much. So any help you can give me would be much appreciated.
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Dee wrote: "At the end of August at least one girlfriend and maybe two others and I are driving through California up into Oregon, to see my sister and then into Washington and Canada. This is a real dream tr..."Oh Dee, I'm sorry I didn't help with this question. I didn't see it or my ongoing health problems may have started about then. I hope your trip was enjoyable. I love the Pacific Coast Highway, but have never be to Yosemite. Maybe one day I'll get to go.
I was born in Denver, Colo moved to So Cal when I was in the second grade.I live in Banning, Ca (near Palm Springs) and because it is a pass weather can be extreme down to 20's and snow up to 115 and muggy.
Small city of 25,000 but has a terrific bus route and of course a Wal-Mart super center in the town next to us.
We get the Interstate 10 traffic because it goes though the middle of our city.
Until a short time ago the acreage across from us was cow pastures.
I love rural living.
Elizabeth wrote: "Lisa wrote: "I live in Perry Michigan. I was born in Atlanta and lived in Los Angeles for most of my life, but I consider Michigan to be home. Just waiting for everything to green up now for spri..."i know! i live in the Valley (think i mentioned that at some point earlier) but i have Pauley Perrette's tweets sent to my phone and she tweeted that the other day in LA she went swimming and the weather was in the 80s! Totally jealous, because at the time it was only like high 60s low 70s here. It's pretty warm today, though, i took my dog for a walk in jeans an a short sleeve shirt. Amazing for the first week of the new year!
Hey, I was born in a suburb of Chicago called Hinsdale, lived in Illinois till about 24 years of age then moved to Reno, then moved back for 1 year. Moved to Bullhead City Arizona for about 5 years, then moved to Las Vegas till 1998. Then went to Long Beach Miss. and opened the entire beverage dept. of the Beau Rivage. Stayed a year and then moved back to Vegas. Been here ever since. Would love to move to the east coast, of course it would be a good idea if I actually got to visit it first, lol. Never been east of Indiana.
Alyssa (Hesperia Loves Books) wrote: "I was just sitting here reading everyone's posts about the beautiful places in which we live, and was really awestruck for a moment. The love of a book and/or series can bring so many people togeth..."I know you wrote this last year but I was reading the post and had to respond. I am from Phoenix, Az and our winters are really cold at night, about 25 degrees, but really nice during the days about 70-75. Summers starting around middle of April through Oct are miserable starting around 100 (April) to 115 June, July, August, and maybe Sept. Contrary to popular belief it can get humid here (maybe not as humid as GA) and truthfully I pray for it. If it doesn't, the temp just keeps climbing. You know that feeling when you open your oven and the heat justs pours out. That is what AZ is like.
When you talked about staying in because of the cold wheather I had to laugh. Up until maybe 15-20 years ago, if it rained heavy(and yes it does occasionally) The streets would flood. I remember one time my parents and my brother and I walked across the street to where it flooded and my brother when swimming in it. It was awful trying to drive home because the water would be up just below the door.
Karon wrote: "It's neat to see how spread out we are! I live in Kansas! Not a lot of exciting weather happens here unless it's early spring when the tornadoes start happening!"Where in Kansas? My husband went to high school in KC
I'm Sherry and I am originally from Washington state but have lived in the DFW area of Texas for over 20 years but right now I'm living is South Korea! My husband has been working over here "short term", so he says...but we've been here off and on for 5 years! Texas is well known for lots of things...Gina has mentioned one...executions! but of course we have great food, many insects, allergies, one season (HOT) and of course, TORNADOES!
Sherry wrote: "I'm Sherry and I am originally from Washington state but have lived in the DFW area of Texas for over 20 years but right now I'm living is South Korea! My husband has been working over here "short ..."What is Korea like? It is nice that you get to go with him.
Dee wrote: "Alyssa (Hesperia Loves Books) wrote: "I was just sitting here reading everyone's posts about the beautiful places in which we live, and was really awestruck for a moment. The love of a book and/or ..."Hee hee... You must have experienced GA humidity for you to single it out like that, especially in a state so far away! But yes, nothing like living right where three weather patterns converge! We get the regular fronts that move across the country, yet it can still sweep up from the Atlantic AND the Gulf. So we are just far enough inland for all that weather to come thru, but too far for it keep moving. So it all meets right over Atlanta, hangs out and has a party :-P
Makes for some pretty thunderstorms though. Nothing like living in the "butt" of Tornado Alley! Wouldn't leave it for the world tho. :-)
Jennifer wrote: "Dee wrote: "Alyssa (Hesperia Loves Books) wrote: "I was just sitting here reading everyone's posts about the beautiful places in which we live, and was really awestruck for a moment. The love of a ..."I always wonder WHY people choose to live in Tornado Alley! No offense! I'm sure if i lived there my entire life i would love it too, but from an outsider from California i am way way way confused :)
Heh heh, good point! ;-)I didn't "choose" it per se. I was born here. Dad chose it back in 1972 because he was offered a job. And most people don't realize that Tornado Alley extends and dips down to include Atlanta.
But the bulk of Tornado Alley is uber flat. That's why there are so many farms in the region. Besides, if people chose not to live there, that's like 7 or 8 states that would be completely unpopulated! :-P
I always wondered why people choose to live in CA with the earthquakes... those seem a lot scarier than tornadoes... at least you can tell when tornadoes are likely to form!
I guess that's true! And the part of California we live in is not earthquak-ey! That's mostly the San Fransisco the Northridge fault area, the San Andreas (sp?) fault line. Mostly up North...and we live in the Valley. Orchards galore! No earthquakes! And most buildings there are kinda built with earthquakes in mind, I'm pretty sure
Atlanta is in Tornado Alley? That's so funny! I had no idea! I'm from Fort Worth, which is next to Arlington/Dallas, which just got REAMED by tornados! Eek! I love Texas though, and will be going back ASAP! :)PS - I found this map of tornado susceptible areas... Looks pretty accurate to me! http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3J5d0WJTZsg...
Well that particular diagram doesn't actually include Atlanta in the "red zone" although you can see its not far outside it! Most of the diagrams I've seen (and I'll admit I haven't looked one up in years - weather patterns may have changed) show an oval shape that include Oklahoma, Nebraska, Arkansas, Kentucky, and then dips down through Tennessee and takes a scoop out of Georgia. Sometimes Atlanta is just inside, sometimes its just outside, sometimes its right on the border. I blame it that collision of three different weather systems I mentioned earlier and no ocean wind currents to push them thru.I figure there isn't any place you could live that is completely free from Mother Nature's wrath in one form or another. People adapt, that's what we do! :-)
Jennifer wrote: "I figure there isn't any place you could live that is completely free from Mother Nature's wrath in one form or another. People adapt, that's what we do! :-) "Definitely! I was watching a show on the history channel, I think. They said the safest place in the US to live, based solely on weather is BY FAR Honolulu, HI. That's right. Next to a volcano is the safest. Gotta love it! :) That's followed by a bunch of cities in Idaho, Eastern Washington, and Oregon... basically all around Mt. Saint Helens. :P
The least safe are all along the gulf and in the mid-west.
http://www.forbes.com/2005/08/30/safe...
I imagine that, using statistical data alone, the sheer infrequency of volcano eruptions as compared to the volume of tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis, typhoons, earthquakes, wildfires, and even just extreme weather like droughts and blizzards, make volcanoes "the lesser of evils" so to speak!
Exactly! I wouldn't mind living in Hawaii! It's like 80 there year-round! Brilliant!
I guess everywhere has something. AZ doesn't have too many tornadoes or earthquakes, although we have had some-but not really severe. We do have heat and fires. We get a lot of heat lightnings which strke somewhere in the desert or some numskull throws a cigarette out in the desert and how dry it is it takes nothing to destroy a desert.
I was born in Louisiana but raised in the Bay Area (Oakland, CA). I currently live in Rancho Cucamonga, CA. A city about 35 miles East of Los Angeles
Seems like I'm one of the very few Canadians here. I live in a small city Medicine Hat, AB. It's about 3 hours from Calgary. It gets quite dry and hot here in the summer (one of the hottest cities in Canada) but it also get pretty cold in the winter. I've only ever lived in Alberta, and visited BC a few times. Other than that, I'm not familiar with our east coast areas.
Born in Chicago, lived in East Moline, IL, moved back to Chicago, spent a year in Union City, TN.. and then back to Chicago. In the city..no suburban living..yet...
Deborah wrote: "I was born in Louisiana but raised in the Bay Area (Oakland, CA). I currently live in Rancho Cucamonga, CA. A city about 35 miles East of Los Angeles"Oh, I'm slightly near you...I'm in Modesto, CA. I think you are the closest to me.
Hi - I live in Pennsylvania outside the city of Philadelphia.
Hi Sue, do you have a membership to the Philadelphia Library? I have a non-resident membership, they have an excellent selection of ebooks.
Hi Patricia - I live in the suburbs of Phildelphia, we have our own system out here, which may be tied in with Philadelphia's.
I live in Asheville, North Carolina, but I am a native New Yorker (Long Island). I moved here 20 years ago and love it. Different pace of life here than in NY.
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That it is. Quite different from the suburban Long Island where I grew up. Although growing up in the shadow of NYC had many culteral advantages (like I got to see every band my heart desired because everyone comes to NY!)
I lived in a country in SE Asia called Singapore. Our weather here is just humid although we do joke that we have 3 seasons here, rainy, sunny and shopping season! It is a pretty but small country though so I had been to lots of other countries/regions before and love the winter season (I suspect that is because I don't have to live in it!). Just went Italy last June and I love it! I have been to the States before (Western side) such as LA, Vegas and Seattle but managed to miss SF which is one of the places I def want to go! Because of this series, I'm dying to go to NYC! Working very hard to shift this up on my to do travel list! Also looking in to see whether I can put Orlando Universal Studio in my itinerary! Only one problem is I don't see how I can fit the Innsboro into this plan... Would love to be able to stay in Eve and Roarke's room!
No, not any more. He was here, but moved sometime ago, before we ever moved here. I don't know where he is now.