I just love your posts about the weather! They crack me up! I'm from KS and live in Indiana now, so your lack of weather out there is highly amusing as I look out the window at freezing rain!

Oh, please be careful out there! Thunder?! Waterspouts?! It’s like you live in the south again! How exciting :-)
I would love a thunder storm up here in Seattle. It’s the only thing about Texas I miss. But it’s just 50 degree and raining. Blech.

As I read this, I looked out the window to ominous clouds, increasing humidity. They (weather gurus) are predicting "severe" thunderstorms for our area this evening. I love the incoming storms and watching the lightening and wind. Perhaps just another reason I live in Mississippi? :) Thanks for your entertaining views on weather and life in LA!

I'm starting to wonder if you're a Canadian, with all this talk about the weather. (No worries. As a Canadian myself, I'm enjoying it.)

No weather here... Temps about freezing, not enough snow for the kids. No snow at all, really, which is a bit scary, specially if you are looking for that spring run-off stuff in a few months.

And what are you knitting these days?

Stay dry. While it is easy to make cracks about how Californian's can't handle their rain the reality is that you guys are getting some dangerous stuff. Keep your head girlie as those about you will be losing theirs entirely! And.......... you know I have to mention that you should be most grateful that it ain't snow!!!

I love your weather posts. Make sure the cats stay dry.

Haha! I always get a laugh out of the one clap of thunder that constitutes a thunder "storm" here in SoCA...we live in a dangerous place, that is for sure =-)

I live south of you and was very very confused yesterday. For a minute I thought I was having an out of body experience and was back east. Before I moved here 1 1/2 years ago we had an earthquake in northern VA. Now in SoCal tonadoes... Hmmmm....

As a Californian who now lives in Arkansas, I completely understand the traffic issues weather causes out there. I was trying to explain valley fog to someone and they weren't getting it at all.

I love that clean smell after the rain. After Mardi Gras, it takes a few good rainstorms (at least 2" each) to clear away the smell of two solid weeks of parades (you can use your imagination about the smell). Then we are left with shiny beads hanging from trees and lampposts -- it's lovely!

I had to run over an check your blog just right now, because I'm hearing of evacuations in L.A. and I immediately thought of you. I hope you and your co-workers are all OK, commutes continue to be minimal and if there are anymore thunderboomers they don't scare anybody anymore.

Oh my gosh... I can't imagine going that long without hearing thunder! I love a good thunder storm, especially in the very early spring when it is still cold out.

"No, it was thunder," someone finally said. "I remember hearing that sound once when I went to Mexico on vacation."

Bwahahahah!

The weather you're all having in LA? We call that spring on the east coast. :)

Oohh!!! Thunder! I know that rain brings mudslides for y'all and that part is scary, but the thunder remark still cracked me up! Here, we're having an ice storm...

When I was a liddle girl, we lived in western PA. During the spring & summer storms, Mom would put a bunch of tiny chairs & pillows in front of the screen door so we could watch the light show! Then we moved to Indiana, and the thunderstorms there were a whole lot scarier: the sky would turn a weird purple-green, like a two-day-old bruise, and the pressure changes would make our ears pop. And we learned how to get 7 people into the crawlspace in record time....

When I heard about the waterspouts in SoCal, I just couldn't believe it! Craziness!

Keep us posted! I can't wait to hear about the traffic. I hope you didn't jinx it.

I heard there was rain in LA and I went straight to your website. I was not disapointed!

I remember my aunt visiting me in Michigan and she smiled as we ate lunch on a rainy June day. I asked "why the smile?", and she said that she hadn't heard thunder since 1962.

Hi, Laurie...

I just found your blog through Ravelry dot com, read one of your "About Me" posts and laughed my ass off, started another, and boy, if I didn't have to go get supper ready for myself and my three-year old, I'd probably still be sitting here reading at 10 o'clock tonight! I like you...you're funny! I'll definitely be back to read more! (And I'm glad to see I'm not the only person out there obsessively/compulsively knitting scarves!!)

Cheers,
tamara

I was hoping you and Drew would be at the CHA Craft Super Show in Anaheim this weekend . . .

My partner insisted I was making things up when I said there was a tornado in southern California yesterday. Here in Minnesota everyone loves to talk about the weather, but we have a lot of it. Sometimes multiple seasons in the same day.

Thunder is awesome. I can't wait for thunder season to start again here in NYC. I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE the way it rolls between the building canyons downtown.

One summer, when I was a teenager, a neighbor had a nephew (Don) who was about my age visit for the summer.

We were outside one day, and I saw it clouding over, yelled for him to come with me and set out running for home! As soon as I hit the door, I headed upstairs and directed him to get the windows downstairs. He was perplexed, and wanted to know what I wanted him to do with the windows. "SHUT THEM!" was the reply.

We barely got the windows closed before the thunderstorm hit!

He had never seen a real, wind, rain and thunder, for real thunderstorm before! He had to stand in the doorway (with the storm door closed) and watch it!

Then he told me about earthquakes!

Would love some rain over my way, we are day 62 without any :-(

I live in the San Gabriel Valley, commute to Pasadena, and am LOVING the rain. Someone should market and sell a "SoCal After the Rain" scented candle. I swear to the baby Jesus that our trees and plants and grass (you mean they were green all along?) are sending out happy vibes now that the 11 months of grime build up have been washed off.

Did you hear that super long thunder clap yesterday around 12:30ish? My entire office went silent for the duration as we stared at one another, mouths agape. When it ended everyone started whooping and hollering. It was the most excitement we've had in ages.

Comments! Yea! I have nothing to add of any importance. I am just happy to see the comments open! Love your blog!

Julie in NWPA where it is now a mere 20*. Brrrr!

So cool you've put comments back.
I do hope you haven't jinxed the traffic...I'm hoping my hubby gets home in one piece and in a good mood.

We are also having actual weather in San Francisco. It's unsettling. Yesterday I watched a lightning storm from my office and the thunder rattled the windows. This morning I tried to take the ferry and it was closed due to high wind, then I tried to get on the freeway and the onramp was flooded, so I decided to wait it out in a diner. An hour later everything was A-OK.

You're supposed to get all of this tomorrow, I think.

I hindsight I wish I had worn Wellies.

I'm amazed to hear that you made it home in record time. I live in Huntington Beach, where the tornado hit, lifted a catamaran onto another boat, and flipped a car. I was in South Coast Plaza, about to head home, when I heard the tornado warning on the car radio and decided to ride it out in the mall (I know, sad).

Tomorrow is supposed to be worse. But I love the clean trees. They look like they can breathe.

I can't help but giggle a little at the "rain of biblical proportions" comment ... heck, up here on the we(s)t coast of Canada, that kinda rain is an average day for us. I live in the Vancouver, BC area and I'm used to not having to wash my car all winter, having the foliage be perpetually green, and being used to having a little moss grow on our north sides 'cause it's so damp all the time. Why someone got the bright idea to want to host a "Winter Olympics" here is anybody's guess. We don't have SNOW!!! It rains all the time!!!

When that cell passed through Pasadena, I had HAIL at my house with the thunder and lightening! Crazy! And there was NO traffic going home today. We're in bizarro SoCal.

Our dog was freaking out just at the rain and wind the other morning and today's thunder and lightning was really too much for him--there was shaking, whining, panting, and sticking to me like glue. The cats, they couldn't be bothered to wake up for it!

Your posts just cracks me up- I sit here laughing out loud! We have A LOT of weather, all the time!!! So it's fun and quite unbelievable to hear about how people react in LA...

Thunder and lightening was definitely something I missed when I lived in California for awhile. Here in Connecticut they're a regular summer occurance.

I live in Ontario, Canada, and your posts on weather completely baffle me and blow my mind. Rooftop patio in January?!? People mistaking thunder for movie explosions?!? Here, we've had thunder-snow - which is a thunderstorm that starts off as rain waaaay up in the clouds, but by the time it gets to us, it's snow. But we still hear the thunder :)

Saw you guys on the CNN news this morning...all the landslides and everything. And then...THEN...I saw this apartment where the roof had fell in and water was pouring in and I prayed it wasn't you again!!! Stay safe.

It is always interesting for transplants to observe the weather, because we usually don't take it for granted. I sometimes show your weather posts to the Scots and Brits I live with and near. Your weatherlessness is unbelievable in this part of the world.

x Sarah

Yay, comments!

California has weather - thunder, even! The end is NIGH people! The END IS NIGH!

Though I'm sorry peoples property got damaged, I'm jealous about the waterspout (but not the tornado - yikes!). I live and work on Long Island Sound and I've never seen a waterspout in person.

Sadly all this mirth over LA weather means mudslide season is just around the corner. And that ain't funny.

Stay safe and dry Laurie.

One of my very favorite things in life is to lie in bed listening to the cats purring and the rain coming down and the thunder rolling. The thunder and rain happen all too seldom for me here in Dallas, but I cherish it when it happens.

COOL...comments! Stay safe and keep your powder dry :)

Oh sorry, didn't mean to be anonymous on that last comment!

I thought of you this morning seeing Al Roker in raincoat and boots, on location in the mud.

We're getting muchas agua from the sky here it NorCal too. I just realized yesterday that I have no shoes that are totally enclosed. Sandals, clogs, sneakers with mesh tops... I'm thinking I should just roll up my pants, wear my flip-flops and take my socks and regular shoes in my bag.

Hi Laurie! I've been reading your blog for years it seems & even have your first book. I'm asking for your 2nd for my bday in April. I just wanted to let you know your biblical rain made our weather news in Albuquerque & I SWEAR they showed your jeep! You have the only red jeep in LA, right?

hey - do you still live in encino-adjacent? i can't remember with the move....

Waterspouts? Cool! (I say because I do not own a boat.) Just hope there is no progression to cats, dogs, and palm trees.