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January 18, 2006
contemplations on the weather
Today is day 32 of rain in Longview, the Washington town where I work. I'm rooting for 40 consecutive days just so we can run an article alluding to Noah's flood. Or 41 days, so we can write, "Even Noah didn't have to put up with this."
The wet stuff started falling Dec. 18, and it will have to continue until Feb. 5 to meet Longview's 50-day record, set in 1988. My colleague Evan is starting to become an expert on this stuff.
It's not really getting to me, but Ben and I have been out of town for a lot of the wet weather. We spent a week in northern Virginia in late December, two days in Phoenix earlier this month. This weekend I'm going to Minneapolis, where forecasters predict highs in the upper 20s and sun in the sky.
The rain is starting to bother some folks at work. Ben says he likes it, though. Cloudy skies and wet air keep temperatures higher up here. Our electric bill -- which is how we pay for our heat -- has averaged around $50 for each of the last two months. Ben knows people out east who have had to pay 14 times that on their natural gas bills this winter.
Posted by Courtney_Sherwood at January 18, 2006 05:45 AM