It's Finally Raining!

[TP2000]

This is a thread really just for my fellow Southern Californians, and I know the other folks around the country will think this is silly, but...

It's finally raining!

Around 1:00AM on Halloween night an unusually early winter "storm" (also known as "light rain" in the rest of the country) moved through SoCal and Orange County. It's a nice steady rainfall, dropping a third to a half of an inch, and the first real rain we've had in SoCal in about eight months.

Disneyland's maintenance, custodial and horticulture crews do wonders in always making both parks feel fresh and springy, but this type of good, steady rain will work magic on the thin layer of dust and drought that has been layered on everything in SoCal for the last year or so.

So here's to an early rain, the first SoCal rain in eight months, and the hope of a wetter winter that ends the drought!

 

[MMDVC]

I just checked your hourly weather forecast. Looks like it will rain more today. So Good news! Wish I was there...

 

[worldfanatic]

I wish the rain would make it out to me in Palm Springs.
But I'm glad DLR is getting a "cleaning" from Mother Nature.

 

[Californian Elitist]

Fantastic thread, TP!

It started pouring maybe around 11:30 here in Los Angeles. It was so nice to listen to it, I can't even remember the last time it rained that hard. I hope it rains some more this winter (not too much, though). Apparently there's going to be an El Niño this year, but I kinda doubt that.

 

[teacherlady19]

Rain woke me around 4 am down here in San Diego County. Wonderful! Wish we'd get more -- a lot more -- but please, not all at once. We don't need mud-slides (except the drink variety).

We've been to DLR in a good rain -- before DCA. It was the Day After Thanksgiving (AKA Black Friday). The rain kept the park fairly empty until the sun came out around 3 pm. Then the crowds came. Fortunately by then, we'd done most of our favorite attractions. This was back in the early 80s.


Donna

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

I was at the park from opening today, completely excited to return to Disneyland in the historically great time to go that is the rainy day. So much for that. Everything was slick, but the sun came out around the time the park opened and the weather remained dry and perfect...? I was kinda disgusted when I walked onto Main Street and it was just another glorious morning.