Rain!!!!!!!!!

[ClaraOswald]

In all fairness, regarding a cold rain being associated with Southern Ca. it had been stated as "having a tendency" not as always being the case.

I think 'cold' could be a relative term. To some people, 60 degrees is cold, I suppose.

 

[TheLanes]

Latest check of Weather app shows its down below 40% chance, only on Tuesday, but less than 20% other days. Perfect! I'll be there Wednesday and Thursday, so hopefully it's enough to scare folks away, but not enough to shut anything down.

 

[Gisele]

Latest check of Weather app shows its down below 40% chance, only on Tuesday, but less than 20% other days. Perfect! I'll be there Wednesday and Thursday, so hopefully it's enough to scare folks away, but not enough to shut anything down.

Lol....that's the spirit man!

 

[ClaraOswald]

Latest check of Weather app shows its down below 40% chance, only on Tuesday, but less than 20% other days. Perfect! I'll be there Wednesday and Thursday, so hopefully it's enough to scare folks away, but not enough to shut anything down.

Hmm...weather.com has a 90% chance of rain Tuesday and a 50% chance of showers on Wednesday.

 

[LiveAndLetLive]

Hmm...weather.com has a 90% chance of rain Tuesday and a 50% chance of showers on Wednesday.

You mean a 90 percent chance of nearly empty parks on Tuesday and a 50 percent chance of nearly empty parks on Wednesday?

 

[ButterflyKisses77]

You mean a 90 percent chance of nearly empty parks on Tuesday and a 50 percent chance of nearly empty parks on Wednesday?

Lol Exactly!!

 

[halfmonkey]

Rain can affect your enjoyable experience at DLR/DCA but it won't ruin it. It may make it a little more inconvenient but it won't ruin it. Rain may slow you down a little but it won't ruin your trip. Remember, this is socal rain we're talking about. Socal rain isn't the same as rain in other parts of the country and not even the same as norcal rain. Socal rain may come down for a couple of hours and in more times than not, it will clear to sunny skies. It happens all the time in San Diego and many times in LA as well. It may remain a little chilly but that's relative to socal. Chilly to us may be warm to other folks in the country during this time of year.

Main thing is to come prepared either with umbrellas or ponchos. We went to DLR/DCA last Dec and it was raining pretty good. It lasted a good couple of hours but then it cleared and all was well again and we went on our merry way. Since it was Dec, the crowd didn't dissipate too much but the crowd after Thanksgiving should be quite light to begin with so if it does rain, it may clear out quite well.

If anything, just plan and save your "indoor" activities for when it rains, such as shopping in the gift stores, bathroom and rest breaks, and eating breaks.

 

[LiveAndLetLive]

On a side note: I don't understand why Californians are so blase about earthquakes. Earthquakes can cause tremendous damage, collapse buildings, leave you homeless, and injure and kill you.

Light rain is just water coming from the sky. You need water to live. Without water, you die. Why do Californians run screaming like chickens with their heads off every time it rains even a little bit but just shrug their shoulders and carry on with their day when the ground shakes?

 

[TheLanes]

On a side note: I don't understand why Californians are so blase about earthquakes. Earthquakes can cause tremendous damage, collapse buildings, leave you homeless, and injure and kill you. Light rain is just water coming from the sky. You need water to live. Without water, you die. Why do Californians run screaming like chickens with their heads off every time it rains even a little bit but just shrug their shoulders and carry on with their day when the ground shakes?

Small earthquakes under 5.0 are fun to be in. The big ones, which are so rare and not worth worrying about. We still build bridges and buildings to code, so yeah, we plan for them, but there is no point in worrying about them during daily life.

I'd love to see the video of all Californians running from rain.

 

[halfmonkey]

Small earthquakes under 5.0 are fun to be in. The big ones, which are so rare and not worth worrying about. We still build bridges and buildings to code, so yeah, we plan for them, but there is no point in worrying about them during daily life.

I'd love to see the video of all Californians running from rain.

We don't run in the rain screaming that the sky is falling. It's just that raining in socal is so few and far between, it's an event when it happens. It's not that we're scared of rain. We're just "fascinated" by this odd phenomenon. The problem for socal is that because it's such a rare situation for it to rain for a very long period of time, people drive in the rain whether light or "heavy" at the same speed and so that's how we get screwed in traffic. Since our rain comes very few and far between, the first time it rains in a long time is the worse because the oil on the road has built up and then when it rains, the oil and rain mix with the speed and bald tires and you have the perfect recipe for accidents and major traffic jams.

Now as far as earthquakes, we don't think too much about them because as I've lived in socal for almost all of my life, we haven't had one larger than a 6.7 or so (knock on wood) and that was in Northridge and I'm in San Diego. The 6.7 did some good damage but many of the earthquakes felt in the area are many miles away and by the time we feel if even at all, they're just a small shake or circular motion going through your house.

In addition, many bridges are being or have already been retrofitted to be current earthquake ready and new homes are built with a post-tension slab. This means that the slab of your home has a bunch of "rebar" style steel cables running through them in a checkered pattern but much larger than rebar that you may use in your landscaping. This allows the house to "move and shake" as one if an earthquake were to strike rather than one part of the house moving one way from the earthquake and another part moving another way.

 

[Sherry E]

On a side note: I don't understand why Californians are so blase about earthquakes. Earthquakes can cause tremendous damage, collapse buildings, leave you homeless, and injure and kill you.

Light rain is just water coming from the sky. You need water to live. Without water, you die. Why do Californians run screaming like chickens with their heads off every time it rains even a little bit but just shrug their shoulders and carry on with their day when the ground shakes?

I'm not blasé about quakes at all, and you're absolutely right. They can cause a lot of damage. I have lived in Los Angeles my entire life (47 years) and I have always hated quakes -- small ones, big ones, whatever they are. I hate them. They are not fun for me, nor have they ever been fun. They really unsettle me and make me jumpy.

One of my earliest (scary) childhood memories is of the 1971 Sylmar quake (which was somewhere in the range of 6.5 or 6.6). It was terrifying, seeing things fall off shelves and feeling the walls moving around me. Then there was the Whitter-Narrows quake in 1987. There were sizeable back-to-back quakes in 1992 -- Landers (a 7.2 or 7.3!!!!!!! ), which was so big that it triggered a quake in Big Bear 3 hours later (a 6.5 or 6.6!). And, the most horrifying one of all (for me, so far) -- the Northridge quake in 1994. The shaking was so strong and violent, and I wasn't even right next to the epicenter. I couldn't sleep for two weeks after that quake, but it was really traumatizing for a lot of people (people who previously had thought that earthquakes were no big deal). I still shudder at the thought of it -- knowing full well that there will eventually be one that is worse than Northridge coming our way.

However. that said, as much as I hate anything even resembling an earthquake, I have no choice but to go about my daily life. I can't worry about when another one will happen and just have to deal with it when it does.

As I mentioned in a previous post in this thread, sometimes when it rains here in SoCal, it pours. It's not always light rain. I don't think anyone cares that much about truly light rain, unless they have to do outdoorsy things -- in which case it can be inconvenient. I don't run screaming at the sight of rain, but I don't personally like to be at Disneyland in the rain because I can't take as many photos as I would normally be taking. I sometimes spend entire days at DLR doing nothing but taking photos, so if I went there and it rained and I had to put away the camera, I would be annoyed.

Because we are not a state that is prepared to handle a huge amount of heavy rain in a steady flow or in a short timeframe, when it happens it can cause a lot of damage -- rapidly. Mudslides and flooding are common in heavy rain. Collapsed roofs are common. People are not used to driving in the rain, so when it happens it can be a big problem out in the streets.

 

[ButterflyKisses77]

Anyone gonna brave it today?

 

[aliceindisneyland]

Anyone gonna brave it today?

We are! NBD with ponchos.

 

[ButterflyKisses77]

We are! NBD with ponchos.

Tell us how it went later! I'll be there tomorrow

 

[Sherry E]

It's pouring today, by the way -- not sprinkling or drizzling. It's coming down steadily where I am -- which means that it is either pouring in Anaheim right now too, or it will be within the next 30 minutes or so.

This is the sort of weather that makes you want to curl up someplace warm, with hot chocolate in hand (I have a feeling that the entire GCH lobby and the Hearthstone Lounge will be very popular today, as if they need a boost in popularity!). There is no way that I, personally, would be out walking around and getting soaked from head to toe -- not to mention sitting in other people's puddles -- in the parks right now. So I applaud everyone who is out there doing it -- because there are so many people who only get one chance to go to DLR, and they have to make the best of it and have fun no matter what the weather is like!

 

[ClaraOswald]

We've done pouring rain a few times. Both on vacation where we didn't really have a choice...and when we lived near the parks. I really didn't mind it (except for the wet shoes/socks.)

 

[ClaraOswald]

Just looked at the forecast and radar for the Anaheim area. Yeah...lots of rain. And a few flood advisories. So whoever said it only drizzles a little there could not be more wrong right now. Ha!

 

[MissEllie]

Anyone gonna brave it today?

We might pop over after we run a few errands for a few hours- we were going to rope drop at DCA, but there was no getting Dgf outta bed once she heard the rain.

 

[jina]

I'm in NorCal and today's rain is the real deal - soaking the whole state. Yay!!! We really need it.

I'm hoping for some rain when we visit DL later this month so we can have smaller crowds. If so, we'll be wearing rain boots, ponchos and bring some extra clothes and a towel to wipe down rides. (we did this last weekend @ Gilory Gardens when it rained which really helped us stay dry). And enjoy plenty of hot cocoa .

Re: earthquakes, I've lived out here 25 years now and agree with the other California residents - a Californian is much more likely to just go with the flow and not be forever worried about a big earthquake that may happen some day - if an earthquake happens, and it destroys stuff, we will deal with it and move on and hopefully not get hurt- stuff can be replaced, not people. Meanwhile we can enjoy amazing weather most of the time unlike my years in the Northeast dealing with shoveling snow, driving in ice, rain year round (including scheduling rain dates for summer events - most of CA is 99.99% dry from May through Oct), hurricanes, tornado's, super cold, super hot/humid weather throughout the year. It's a tradeoff.

 

[Sherry E]

By the way -- it's still pouring! I am in L.A., 40-45 minutes from Disneyland (our weather here is almost the same as what's happening in Anaheim, or they are ever-so-slightly behind us), and it has been continuously pouring since I last posted here that it was pouring! Definitely time for some toasty blankets, comfort food and a warm drink.

It's been in the 100-degree range and 90-degree range for a lot of weeks and months this year (even back in May we had a week of over 100-degree temperatures, not to mention whatever we got later in the summer!), so I love the cool air now. I just need to get some better rain boots. If I had good, truly waterproof shoes I would probably be out dancing around in it. At DLR, however, I can't take the same number of photos in the rain that I would on a dry day, so rain interferes with that endeavor.