San Francisco is My Home

04
Jan

The first storm of three storms

Author: kris, Category: News

It’s just before sunrise and the storm woke me up. Lightning, thunder, winds to rattle the windows and a driving black rain. In most other cities this would be nothing to blog about, but even though SF gets its share of rain, cold and fog, we rarely see anything like this and it’s scary. Like the Market Street winds on steroids.

In his book The California Feeling, Peter S. Beagle put it best when considering the difference between his east coast brethren and his new west coast friends:

See, they don’t have winter here. I mean, they have a winter — where I live, it’s liable to rain any time between November and June, or all the time — but they don’t have winter. The idea of it isn’t carved into them right down to the chromosomes, the way it is with us.

And he’s right, too. We’re always taken by surprise when the sky does something weird like this.

Prepare for flooding and yet more overcrowding in the homeless shelters. Prepare to be woken up before sunrise.