QOTD #64: What do you do when it rains?

We talk about it a lot, but now that I think of it ... I don't think we've ever actually had sex during a thunderstorm. Hmm ...

 

I grew up in the Oregon coast range. 100" of rain a year was not uncommon in my home town. I'd walk to school in the rain (only a 1/4 mile), work in the rain, play in the rain, you name it. If you couldn't deal with the precipitation, you either moved away or quickly went insane! Now, I live in the Willamette Valley (still Oregon), where the average annual rainfall is 50-60". It's dry by my standards!

 

My family spent two very wet years in East Texas when I was in Jr High. I was accustomed to walking to school when it was 20 deg and snowing in Colorado, but not prepared for 80 deg and raining in Texarkana. I'd have a slicker and umbrella and still somehow get wet. Plus, my glasses, which I very much needed for going from place to place, would repeatedly fog up.

 

My first reaction was - why is she holding a frozen brain? Interesting how, as they grow while being re-churned up inside the storm cell, they become not a single hail stone, but clumps and clusters of stones. They can end up looking pretty weirdly shaped.

Glad you didn't get those raining down on you. I've been in one storm with softball size hail and the damage was impressive, to say the least.

 

Yep, my first thought was frozen brain as well.
I've never seen hail that big close up before, very cool.
Living in Alaska, I've seen just about every other major variation of frozen falling water but that one.

 

Yep, thought that was a frozen brain. What a pic

 

I love being outside in rain.

Being indoors during rain makes me anxious. Like seriously, haeart in my mouth anxious. Not that I want to be out in it, but that the rain, falling on windows and so on, makes me feel unwell.

I think it's related to the fear of property damage if water gets into my home (I've had that happen a few times, over the years).