Isn't it depressing living in Washington? Out of Towners what about you? (Seattle: home, bus)

[notnamed]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

Well, it was plenty green when I was there in September, last year. The monsoon didn't start until around Oct. 12, though light drizzle began about a week earlier.

Yeah, this is the Vancouver area. Burn bans and water conservation were in effect. The major route out to the Oregon coast was closed due to wildfires. Smoke was lingering throughout town, you couldn't escape it. Only things that were green in our yard were the dandelions. Summer's are usually pretty dry.

Then the fall rains came and I found myself mowing the grass in winter. Which I'll trade winter mowing for hot summer mowing any day heh.

[Hemlock140]

Some of us fled the dry, hot weather and brown, dry grass because we love the clouds and rain. This year has been especially sunny so far, which is fine with me as long as it stays in the 70s and we get rain now and then. It's supposed to come back this weekend and next week.

Oh, and actual data shows that we don't get rain 85% of the time - it's just 9.4% of the time.

Does it *really* rain in Seattle '24/7'? Not even close! | KOMO

[Blindtom]

Originally Posted by TAZORAC

For those of you who didn't grow up in Washington, isn't it a depressing state?

For some, maybe. For me, no, I find it quite the opposite.

[StealthRabbit]

34 yrs on we_tside,

I'm not used to it, so fly to sun frequently.
# of days in WA last 3 yrs < 100, days in USA in 2016... zero if possible...

Election media attention is more depressing than rain. Thank goodness my TV was gone since 1968. Nixon lost in '68.... Only to come back with the strength of Spiro Agnew.. .. And politics has improved a lot

Another depressing thing about WA... My vote does not count anyway, because I don't live in Pierce, Thurston, or King.
I just live with the very expensive consequences.

[rantiquity]

Originally Posted by 509

Desert is usually defined as less than 10 inches or rainfall. By that standard there are almost 10 million square miles of desert in Washington state. This compares to the Mohave Desert in California which is 25 million square miles.

Thanks to Franklin Roosevelt you can have a desert and have it green with plenty of lakes and water.

So about 15% of Washington state is true desert.

And of that 15% of true desert is probably government/military controlled.

[west seattle gal]

Originally Posted by TAZORAC

I don't live in Washington but I can't imagine living in place where it rains 85% of the time, the sun rarely comes out and its chilly and cold. I guess its something that people who've always lived their have gotten use too.

For those of you who didn't grow up in Washington, isn't it a depressing state?

Ha, I wish! It has been in the 70's and sunny, with the 80's expected tomorrow in Bham.

We use heat for only a few short months of the year. We typically do not need air conditioning. Our windows don't need screens since there are few bugs. I don't own either a winter or rain coat -- don't need more than a sweatshirt/layers in the winter, and when it rains there is typically nothing but a light drizzle that often feels refreshing. And despite rain, we have no oppressive humidity. The vegetation is green throughout the year.

[west seattle gal]

Originally Posted by 87112

Yeah, come October when the rain and clouds come back it seems like a death over the city. Its tough and don't underestimate how brutal it can be.

...but yes, sometimes the cloud cover is so thick in Feb that it can feel like a gloomy fishbowl. Oct is still great for the most part. I detest Jan-Mar and sometimes late Nov and early April here (holidays help in the Fall), but love the rest of the year.

[jacqueg]

Originally Posted by TAZORAC

I don't live in Washington but I can't imagine living in place where it rains 85% of the time, the sun rarely comes out and its chilly and cold. I guess its something that people who've always lived their have gotten use too.

For those of you who didn't grow up in Washington, isn't it a depressing state?

I grew up in southern California. As a kid, nothing was more thrilling to me than a rainstorm. And the first time I saw an actual river that was NOT encased in concrete and had rushing water in it all the time, I fell deeply in love.

I moved to the wet side of the PNW when I was 20, because I LOVED the coolth and the green here. Nearly 50 years I still love it.

[PS90]

Originally Posted by TAZORAC

I don't live in Washington but I can't imagine living in place where it rains 85% of the time, the sun rarely comes out and its chilly and cold. I guess its something that people who've always lived their have gotten use too.

For those of you who didn't grow up in Washington, isn't it a depressing state?

Sorry, but your comment is ridiculously overgeneralized and needlessly provocative.

What's the point of you comment? Are you just trolling? Or are you hoping that you would get a bunch of posts that said something like "Yes, I hate living in Washington! Oh, mighty TAZORAC, please tell me where to live!!!"?

[Boxkicker]

Originally Posted by rantiquity

Interesting OP...I believe he/she is from Truth or Consequences NM if the zip on his/her bio is correct.

Truth or Consequences NM get more rain than Yakima or the Tri-cities and just a little less than Spokane or Sequim...but please remember most of Western Washington is influenced by Marine time weather, so duh...rain. Truth or Consequences NM? What gets me is NM has a hot summer and cold winter and brown high desert climate almost all year around and he/she is complaining about Washington State rain...priceless.



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Eastern Washington is not all desert in fact, beside government/military owned land, with the irrigation and along the Columbia River and numerous lakes it stay green most of the winter and spring and is also quite green along the border with Idaho. The eastern slope of the Cascades is also quite green most of the year....The Northern half of Eastern Washington stay green all year around. The fact is the only place that dries out is across the middle which is due mostly old lava flows.

My wife is from SE New Mexico, and she had never lived anywhere else for her first 43 years of life. When I married her and moved her to WA State (Seattle), she never wants to go back to NM....that's even after her 3 adult kids graduated here and moved back.