“I might have well as stayed in Ireland,” he said. “Is Alaska always like this?” he asked, and Jenny reassured him that it was not, but he wasn’t having it. Perhaps he’d heard of the mountains and glaciers across the bay and inlet and wondered if that was so much tourist propaganda. Recently an Irish man visited my wife at her bookstore during one long stretch without a break in the weather. I have two nice blazers and 379 jackets and sweaters. As Norwegians and Alaskans say, “There is no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing.” A clever entrepreneur could make a lot of money dressing Alaskans for the weather, which might be why we have more outdoor gear stores than fancy dress boutiques. Maybe you need some rain pants if you’ll be strolling through thigh-high fireweed and bluejoint grass. A light water-resistant jacket works fine, especially paired with rubber boots. With our light rain, you can dress more easily for the weather. When I did archaeology, we gloried in cloudy days because you could see every little flake better. That cobalt blue of a Steller’s jay? Shazam! When I walk the beach looking for hag stones and heart rocks, they don’t get lost in shadow. Greens and blues actually seem more vivid with clouds. You don’t have to worry about lining up a shot so the sun is at your back. I don’t love clouds but I don’t mind them, either. Homer rain has its upside in that except for these rare blasts of full-on drenching rain - hello, Florida! - most of the time we get clouds. You may believe in a deity which has powers over the universe, but then there’s the old joke about how to make God laugh: Make plans. Does gravity take spiteful glee when you fall? No. It’s not that they don’t care so much as they can’t care. Those forces not only have no empathy, they have no sentience or thought. Whether it’s a surprising medical diagnosis or a Sunday afternoon which includes thunder, lightning and hail all in one hour, the forces which cause and control events do not care about what happens to us. Armand’s Circle on Lido Key looking at shell shops, dodging puddles and dashing in and out of the rain. I have fond memories of tooling around St. We planned for a day or two of rain and would do some sort of indoor activity. In late summer, our family often rented a cottage at Longboat Key on the Gulf of Mexico coast. When hurricane season started in August in Florida, if a full-on hurricane didn’t blow in, we came to expect weeks of clouds and rain - huh, kind of like Alaska. Once the storm had passed, sun would shine again and after maybe 10 minutes everything would have dried up. The last summer before college I worked as a groundskeeper at a big Tampa apartment complex and came to expect an afternoon thunderstorm about 2 p.m. I grew up in Florida, and as a child I came to expect that on any given summer day a squall might blow in, drenching everything and putting a stop to fun activities like lawn mowing. 8, since July 1 Homer has had eight days of clear weather, 30 days of rain and 31 days of cloudy or partly cloudy skies.
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