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The ability to endure month after month of days like today is an unappreciated phenomenon unique to this corner of America.
Elsewhere winter storms may be harsher in the traditional frozen pipes/paralyzed infrastructure sense, but the psychological toll of Steve Pool’s constant grey "with a chance of light rain" is just grueling. Long-time Seattle residents are not unlike seasoned veterans of a lifelong Chinese Water Torture and Seattlest appreciates the local grit required to stomach the inclement march to summer.
While Seattle may be associated with constant rain, we aren’t even close to leading the nation in rainfall; Houston, Charlotte and Memphis each blow our annual precipitation out of the water. Dry-ass Utah leads the nation in per capita depression cases, so just imagine the collective mental health disaster folks in Utah would face if they were forced to endure the seven odd months of slow wetness that is Seattle.
Pat yourself on the back Seattle, the rainy season is over halfway done, most of us are still holding it together and the white escape of the mountains is just a quick drive East.
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Man. That makes me feel great about myself.
sniff.
Sure, it's a grind, but it's such sweet revenge if you've moved here from somewhere else. Especially if it's a particularly cold somewhere else, like Michigan.
After enduring several months of joking about how I'd crack under the sheer damned strain of month after month of rain, I still enjoy calling back to hear that they got five inches of snow and it's going to go all the way down to the minus degrees overnight.
"Really? Wow. It's kind of overcast here. I had to find my umbrella on Christmas."
"Shut up..."
Hah! I hear Grand Rapids is getting 6"-12" of snow today.
My key to staying sane through all of this: vitamin D. It helps fight off the SAD.
SAD is no joke. I think everybody out here knows somebody affected one way or another.
Steve Pool's voice and the word rain are so ingrained into my head that I could just hear him speaking when I read that.
wasn't it really sunny yesterday?