Seven years ago we left the rainy Pacific Northwest and moved to sunny Arizona.
It seems that we brought the Washington rainforest down south with us!
It not only rained for days on end at our home east of Phoenix in Leisure World, but it also rained and hailed with thunder and lightning day and night at our cabin in the high desert mountains of Pine Arizona….
In fact, we are so unaccustomed to rain in Arizona that every few miles on the interstate this sign flashes in bold letters above the highway:
Not once in all the years that we lived on Whidbey Island north of Seattle did we ever see a sign warning us about “WET ROADS.” The “wet roads” warning sign would have needed to blaze at us all 152 days a year that it rains in the Pacific Northwest.
What’s more—in the Seattle area, where I lived 68 years of my life, the skies are overcast 226 days a year, with over 80% cloud cover. “The bluest skies you’ve ever seen” are definitely not in Seattle!
We Arizonians can’t really complain much about breaking the 1916 record of the most days in a row of rain….with a measly five wet days. In fact, it is so novel to see a downpour in Arizona that when it rains we get so excited that we all run outside and take pictures…..of RAIN!
Thank you, dear Danny, for moving us to gorgeously, beautiful sunny Arizona. We love it here, even when it won’t stop raining….for 5 days once a century.
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