Letter To My Roof, Los Angeles
Hey, honey. Please don't cry. Not on my pillow.
One of the things I love about Los Angeles is the fact that we don't really have "weather" here -- just fires, mudslides, riots, earthquakes and freeway chases. Usually, in the vicinity of the beach, which I'm almost a mile from, it's about 55 or 60 degrees year round.
Sunday, we had the worst rain I think I've experienced since I've been living here. My neighbor met me to hang out and write at Starbucks -- where the roof started leaking in a bunch of places by around noon. By the time we were ready to go home, I thought I'd need an outboard motor to get there (me and all the animals that would line up to get into my car, two by two).
I like big weather. I think this may be a genetic inheritance from a Floridian mother who told me tales of the hurricanes she lived through as a child. I don't like a leaking roof but the idea of sitting outside on some coastal island, sipping drinks as a huge thunderstorm moves in over the ocean is just a little bit of wonderful for this dog.
BlogDog at March 21, 2011 4:25 AM
Well, it's the first full day of spring and SNOWING here in CT on the coast.
Lovely. /sarc
Flynne at March 21, 2011 7:48 AM
It's like that in Tel Aviv - although the fashionistas wear boots and summer-weight sweaters and pretend that it's winter.
Old Spanish-style ceramic tile roofs should be nearly indestructible - only leak if a tile's been dislodged.
If you have the cheapo "Taco Bell/shopping mall" falsies - sheets of metal or plastic pressed to look like tiles - you can get leaking when a seam works loose.
Ben David at March 21, 2011 12:39 PM
"55 to 60 degrees year around"--I think you are at least 10 degrees low for six months of the year, daytime temps.
Sunny Listen at March 21, 2011 12:58 PM
I'm not sure you can use the term, "worst rain" except in over-developed areas.
When you don't pay any attention to the flood plain and build anyway, you get what you deserve.
Radwaste at March 21, 2011 5:16 PM
I've spent the odd week, here and there, in middle to southern CA.
The one thing I noticed is that there are absolutely no storm drains, anywhere. So when we in the northern states get 3"-6" in 12 hours it is just a bad day. Do the same thing in SoCal, you need a boat for the same amount of rain.
Jim P. at March 21, 2011 7:08 PM
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