you don’t move to england with an aversion to rain

29.april.05: people apologize on behalf of the country for england’s un-californian-like weather. no one really believes that california, too, has months worth of grey skies and clouds, rains and storms. apparently, it never rains in california on the telly, so my friends say.

and then my father sends me pictures of a storm in visalia, with dark scary skies and funnel clouds.



i show them to my friends to prove that yes, it definitely rains there, and probably everywhere else in the world that you don’t think about. deserts, volcanoes, and even hell probably have their share of precipitation.
i tell them, please stop apologising for england’s overcast habits. it actually adds to the atmosphere when i look out a train window and see sloped blackened rooftops reflecting water from the skies. and besides, i tell them, you don’t move to england if you have an aversion to rain.