Post #146350 by ZebraTiki on Sat, Mar 12, 2005 4:55 PM

On 2005-03-11 14:09, ScottMcGerik wrote:

Ugh! I hate Minnesota! I never acknowledged how much I hate where I live until I visited Costa Mesa and saw palm trees, flowering shrubs, and skin, smelled the ocean breeze, and felt the warmth of the sun.

I grew up in Costa Mesa, and it seemed like we had very little weather: 80's cloudless and humid, dried out lawns, extermination season for the rats from palm trees, or endless rain that causes floods from the palm fronds the neighbors refuse to pick up clogging the storm drains, particularly if you're at a 'Mesa' part of Costa Mesa.

As kids, we were intensely jealous of the weather where trees turn colors, not catch on fire to do so, and this alleged "school closed for snow day" rumor, which still feels like I was ripped off, weather-wise.
I can't wait to live somewhere that gets snow! I have a crackpot theory that some people are just biologically happier in a certain climate, and I was unfortunate enough to grow up in my personal anti-climate (OC and Palm Springs, why not just send me to the surface of the sun?!)

I worked with a guy who moved to Costa Mesa from Minnesota, and halfway through May, when it had been 80-90 every day for weeks on end, he apprehensively asked when it was going to end, when would it cool off, and get, "Back down to the 40's?" We all were confused and had to say that other than some dry wildfire seasons, the change would be overcast to raining, but only a handful of cold nights. When we told him he'd have to take a few hours' drive up to the mountains to see snow, he looked like he was going to cry.