Apparently we are going to skip right over Fall and head right into Winter, do not pass GO, do not collect $200.
Yesterday we were hit with an unusually early, cold and wet Winter storm.
That's fine by me; I much prefer cooler rainier weather, which is what I was expecting when we moved here.
We knew nothing about Bakersfield when we moved here and made a lot of assumptions that have proved to be hilariously wrong. Chief among them was the weather.
LA experienced little weather or rain, the Bay Area experienced a lot. Bakersfield fell somewhere in between, so in my mind Bakersfield must be wetter than LA, closer to Northern California in climate. It was farm country after all and you needed rain to grow things, right?
Turns out, you don't.
The southern San Joaquin Valley is essentially a desert. Bakersfield gets about the same amount of rain as Death Valley. The only reason they're able to grow anything at all is the complex system of canals that steal water from up north.
The first Winter we were here, it was cold but we had precious little weather other than the dense, soul-crushing fog. It made a depressing situation that much more so. But last year, we were under the influence of "La Niña". Wasn't that one of Columbus' ships? We had storm after storm and it felt much more like living in the Bay Area. We take our delusions wherever we can find them and that worked fine for me.
And now they say, we're in for an encore, a rare second year of the same weather pattern.
Sounds good to me.
And as an added bonus, because of piss poor planning and non existent drainage, every time it rains we get to experience "Island Living". For a few brief hours, we have waterfront property. It's really the best of all worlds.
