Am I off your shit list now?
You were never on it, except in a general sense. You weren't the only one of your neighbors wishing for a hurricane in a blasé way, it seemed to me. Just so you could get your lawn and trees watered. If you've ever been through a direct hit, or two within three years, you understand why I might get touchy about that.
It'd sorta be like me wishing for snow in the winter, knowing you'd have to go through an ice storm and tree limbs on your house and downed power lines and no electricity for two weeks. Just so I can have some snow.
As for rain, we are in a drought, too. The edges of my yard are starting to turn brownish; though, like ETA, I water the trees and slab pretty regularly. The last I heard, we are close to 40" behind over the last two years. No way to make that up, unless its the coming of the second deluge or something. Anyway, a hurricane coming through and dumping 10-15 inches of rain in a day is not what you or I need. We need the hiigh pressure thing or whatever it is keeping the moisture from the gulf at bay to move, so we can get back to scattered T-storms every afternoon, like it is supposed to be around here in the summer.
Also, I am supposed to get rain when you don't. You live in a semi-arid climate. I'm in a sub-tropical zone. We normally get 50-60 inches a year. You get half that. In a normal year. Or what used to be a normal year. I'm not sure what is "normal" anymore.
At any rate, if I was really mad at you, I would threaten you with something more terrifying than force-feeding you Swedish meatballs.
