Do You Like the Rain?

[Classicqueen13]

I, for one, love the rain, but over the years people have told me I'm crazy. I wanted to see if there are any others who like it as well or if most don't enjoy it.

[Yoda]

It just started raining here. Are you spying on me?

[Classicqueen13]

It just started raining here. Are you spying on me?


Haha, no but it was raining here a few minutes ago. :)

[Miss Vicky]

I don't generally like rain, but right now I'd take it over the 100+ degree weather we've had the last week or so.

[Swan]

Boy do I!

[mark f]

I like it when it rains and I don't have to worry about watering the yard. You have to remember that I live in Southern California, and we really don't get enough rain. I also enjoy being out in the rain when it's not raining too hard. I don't understand people running around in parking lots and covering their heads when it's hardly raining. It's fun to walk in a light rain. It also brings out some nice smells (at least to me). However, I don't like it when it rains hard for hours or perhaps days because the crazy drivers make it ten times harder to get through a "normal" drive without an accident.

[regnif]

love it...

[beelzebubbles]

It's pouring here and I hope this chases away the stifling heat we had today.

[Classicqueen13]

The scent of after it rains is my favorite and I can't quite explain why I love it so much. I too love to walk in rain, mark f

[Brother Blue]

I live in England, I have to like it :D

[KasperKristensen]

Love the rain. Love thunder even more.
I remember me and my 3 brothers once had a contest. It was raining hard and a thunder storm was going on. We would stand on the balcony and see who could stand there the longest, only wearing underpants. Once you let go of the railing you lost. Funny thing was none of us would let go. Eventually it just stopped raining.

[SoulInside]

I like heavy rain and I like hot sunny days. I just can`t stand the weather inbetween.

[Sir Toose]

I like it for the most part.

Of course, I live 15' above sea level in hurricane country near the coast so sometimes I dislike rain very much... but for the most part me and rain, we cool.

[TONGO]

^^^^^^^^^^ Congrats to your boy Hendo for knocking Bisping the f-out at UFC 100! You got good taste Toose.

I live in Florida so if I hated the rain Id be a basket case.

[Sir Toose]

^^^^^^^^^^ Congrats to your boy Hendo for knocking Bisping the f-out at UFC 100! You got good taste Toose.

I live in Florida so if I hated the rain Id be a basket case.


That was a thing of true beauty.

Even Lesnar couldn't put a damper on it for me. :D

[honeykid]

I live in England, so it's a good job I do. :)

n3wt lives in Wales. Hey n3wt, do you like rain? :D

[Sexy Celebrity]

I like it, but if it makes an appearance on days where I wanna go do something outside, it PISSES ME OFF!

[Iroquois]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3DgAJwVeVU

[rufnek]

I, for one, love the rain, but over the years people have told me I'm crazy. I wanted to see if there are any others who like it as well or if most don't enjoy it.

I wasn't sure if this was a question about precipitation or some punk group I've never heard of. :)

Whether I enjoy rain depends on the rain, my mood and the circumstances of the moment. In my moody teens, I enjoyed walking in the rain when I had the blues or, if I were mad or feeling on edge, jumping on my motorcycle and roaring into a wall of water. But in the Army the rain was usually cold and we were out in it for hours, days, however long they wanted to keep us, with no relief. Our ponchos were water-proof, but they kept out air, so under the poncho you're sweltering and sweating and hot as hell except for the ice cold trickle of rain water that always finds a way inside your collar and down the length of your spine. Chow was really fun in the rain--they'd run us under a tent shelter where they dished up hot food in our mess kits and hot coffee in our tin mugs, and then we had to go back out into the rain, sit in the mud, and eat the cold soup the rain made of our food and watered down coffee. Meanwhile, there's the steady drum of rain on your steel helmet.

Once I was on a sailboat excursion when a gale blew in, drenching us with rain and waves. The boat was heeled over almost on one side and going like a bat out hell with the wind in the sails. The sunny afternoon turned dark as night and lightning was dancing through the clouds. The skipper is fighting the wheel and most of the party I'm in are hanging onto whatever they can find to keep from tumbling overboard. With our mast jutting up toward the storm clouds, I ask the skipper what happens if we take a lightning strike. He replies it would burn out his radios but otherwise do little damage--unless we happened to be holding onto something metal. Like the metal cable I was holding with one hand with my free arm wrapped around my date and her daughter to keep them from falling. Among our party were a blind couple, one of whom had a seeing-eye dog cowering in the bottom of the boat. Blind guy asks the skipper, "What's happening now?" Skipper replies, "I don't know. It's so dark I can't see any better than you." Meanwhile, I'm wondering--if the boat goes down and we all go into the water, will the dog attract sharks or will it be the only living thing to make it to shore?

Generally, the way I've most enjoyed rain is when it was tapping softly on a window pane some weekend afternoon while I lay in a warm bed with a sweet and loving partner. That's when rain is at its romantic best.

[Holden Pike]

I like rain, yeah. Though having moved to the Pacific Northwest where it rains so frippin' much from about October until May I do like it less than I used to. And like Eddie Rabbitt, I love a rainy night. Rainy days...eh, not as much.

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Besides, the Pacific Northwest rain isn't the good kind of rain. I like heavy dounpours and of course thunderstorms, which are one of the only things I really miss about the East Coast (you get an occasional thunderstorm here, but they are usually brief and very few and far between). Most of the Winter and even Spring rain here in Portland is just a steady, grey drizzle. That just gets to be downright dull and damp with no real beginning or end. You can go weeks without really seeing the sun here in the Winter. That's just a bummer. The payoff though are the beautiful and lushly green Summers with very little rain.

All in all, sure, I like rain, though love is probably too strong a word...unless we're talking about a massive thunderstorm and heavy downpour. Don't think I'd be happy, weather wise, living in Los Angeles or San Diego.

[n3wt]

Im used to the rain in Wales so I dont really get much other weather to compare it to :laugh: