When Will It End?

I do realize this will be my third (or fourth) blog entry in a row about rain, but this is all any of us of Vancouverites can think about, talk about.

I don't mind the rain, out of necessity. Vancouver is a rainy city. If you live here, you have to put up with it, and think about how beautiful the city is, when it isn't raining.

It has rained so much though, this winter, I think I have forgotten what a sunny day is like. It isn't raining right now, and the sun is peaking out, but there are still grey clouds all around, threatening to soak us Vancouverites even more.

In the last 46 days, it has rained 44 days. Yes. 44 days of rain. A month and a half of rain. I am going nuts. No more rain, please.

I saw the mountains today for the first time, in a long time. I then felt robbed. While I much prefer Vancouver in the summer time, there is nothing more beautiful then a clear winter day, with clear blue skies, and the bright sun lighting up the snow capped mountains. I have not been able to enjoy that scene this winter.

When the rain comes, it erases the mountains from sight.

You stare out into the Harbour and English Bay and see nothing but an ominous, grey mass. You know the mountains are behind it, somewhere, but you are having a hard time picturing them, because they have been hidden for so long.

We [Vancouverites] take some solace in this rain with the knowledge that these dreary, wet days have broken a few records - the wettest January ever, and the wettest month ever in Vancouver meteorogical (is that even a word?) history. Since the city started keeping weather records in the 1930's, Vancouver has never seen so much rain as it has these last 46 days.

As they say, this weather is for the ducks. And if this weather keeps up, I think we may, out of sheer necessity, evolve into water fowl. I think waterproof feathers and webbed feet may be the only way to survive this.

I love water. I am more at home on water, than on land. But I don't like water when it falls from the sky, for days and days and days and days....