Post #3: In which I try to control the weather

If I've learned anything from The Crow -- and I like to think that I've learned a lot -- it's that it can't rain all the time. But, for frick's sake, all I'm really asking is that it rain in Los Angeles.

Just a little bit.

Okay, well it does actually rain a little bit. In fact, this is the greenest I've seen Los Angeles since moving here a few years back. Plus, this year's Spring has been very nice and cool. I really don't have much to complain about.

What?

Then why am I complaining?

Well, save from the fact that I need something to write about, it's just not enough rain. Los Angeles is a city whose population is hovering over 12 million people and it has trouble keeping up with demand. It's just a perfect shit storm that I like to call:


"HOLY CRAP THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END"

I tend to call it this either very late at night when I'm having trouble sleeping or when I'm really hungry. The latter happens quite often as I let my stomach do a lot of my thinking for me.

Well, most of the time. But, this isn't that kind of a blog.

Here's the various thoughts running through my head that, through magic, create that perfect shit storm I mentioned above:

• "It's pretty hot today. Hot and dry. I think I saw a tree wheezing yesterday."
• "Jeebus... that smog was thick today."
• "It sucks that I have to ask for water at a restaurant. I think automatic glasses of water are going the way of the dinosaurs because everyone is rationing water. This is definitely the beginning of some sort of post-apocalyptic future we will be living in. It's either going to be a Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome  or a Waterworld sort of scenario. Either way we're screwed."
• "Speaking of water rationing. Why was that city worker hosing down the sidewalk this morning? I thought we were rationing water? What's up with that?"
• "Oh my God! Do you think Hurricane Katrina was the beginning of that post-apocalyptic world? It makes so much sense to me right now!"
• "Why the hell is the Bay Area getting so much rain? Where's ours?"
• "My girlfriend takes really long showers. She's single-handedly causing the drought we're experiencing!"

It's enough to drive someone like me crazy.

I really just wish it would rain a bit more down here. This is beyond my control save curbing my water usage. But, what's a group of people gotta do in order for it to rain? I know that the poor people in the hills are going to experience mud slides galore when it rains, but they're going to experience fires in the summer. So, it's a lose-lose situation for them.

For the rest of us, the worst we have to experience are the crazies whose brain leave their body every time it rai--

*sigh*

I can't win.