>>... The Puget Sound has warm rain? I suspect you may have been
>>misinformed on that bit, or have a different idea of what constitutes
>>"Warm Rain".
>>
>Given the claimants were an exotic dancer, and the proprietor(s) of a
>tourist T-shirt / sweat shirt store, I have to concede my sample size
>is... suspect. Add to this the fact that when the so called 'warm
>rain' was supposed to arrive, my ship was done with refit and returned
>to her home port of Alameda, CA.

Yeah, these people sound like natives who think rain at 50 degrees Fahrenheit is "warm". Bet they take cold showers, too, on account that it saves energy. Bah! If they'd just pipe up some gas for water heaters then it wouldn't be such a strain on their energy bills.

Say what you will about the price of natural gas, it's still a heckuva lot more effective at heating things than other methods relying on electricity alone. The only exception I make to that rule is induction ranges because holy hana do they ever work fast, but damn they're expensive. Any place that does not have natural gas available for the cooktop is a non-starter for me.

>So, those of you who recall Samuel Clements saying the coldest winter
>he ever spent was a SUMMER in San Francisco?
>
>He wasn't kidding.

Ah yes. My folks have assured me - after they're time spent in Mountain View while Dad was working at Google-X - that the weather in San Fran is pretty batshit. At least it only ever gets that bad here in South Texas during the winter season.

(They are not kidding when they say that you can experience all four seasons in a single day in South Texas during Winter. Granted, those kinds of days don't occur all that often, but they happen often enough that it's talked about.)