Wonders of Oregon

[karl]

It rains too much.

All the frikken' time!

-John

I moved from Fresno Calif to Coos Bay Oregon......

Fresno summers were 6 months of clear blue sky and 100+ temps.
Winters were overcast and fog. Rain was in late fall, early spring.

Got to Coos Bay Thanksgiving weekend for good. Until about March 1st, it rained every friggin day!!!!

So far this month, it is about 50/50.

I don't know if I will get used to this wetness. Everything is covered with green coast slime and all the vehicles here are dying from coast cancer [rust]. A bus in Fresno is rust-free for 35 years. Up here, it is rusting away in 6 months!

Best thing here is the murder rate, or lack there of. 1 in 2005!
http://www.city-data.com/city/Coos-Bay-Oregon.html

Fresno had like 1 PER day! In reality, it appears to average 50 a year.
http://www.city-data.com/city/Fresno-California.html
But I guess that is what happens in a city with a population of 482,000.

Coos Bay is 16,005 [was 15,995 when we first got here]

[DjEep]

Ewwww..... Fresno... You like that place? And consider it a "city"?

[LiveonJG]

Coos Bay is 16,005 [was 15,995 when we first got here]

Wow, you've got a big family.

-John

[ruckman101]

I'm in the mountains now!

Brutal cold today, made me pine for that delicious stretch of warm clear days we just had. Frosted grass this morning and doesn't feel much warmer. The collapsed carport debris has been hauled away, the brush mangled by the tractor shoving snow down the hill is cleared and piled. Only the biggest banks of snow still persisting. The alders down by the creek in the pasture have reddened up with dangling pods that will green up and open to release green pollen.

I remember spotting a cloud of that green pollen blowing billowing about in a coastal valley I was driving through one spring ("Why the hell is that cloud green?").

Occasionally today the clouds clear enough to see if Mt St Helens is pluming or not, but otherwise, cold and grey, a smattering of light sprinkles.

Oh waxing in nostalgia, another non-indigenous native.


neal