Perhaps a Poll and Some Rain

I will begin with an apology. Yesterday's post may have been politically offensive to some people. Sometimes things happen in this world that my public school education has not equipped me to understand. I get all worked up in a frustrated confusion which then spews out all slobbered in sarcasm. (Yes Aase, if only I had the technology.)
Please check out the poll to the right and voice your opinion. I'm quite curious to see the results. (Please vote only once.)

It rained yesterday. It also rained last Monday. Now for all of you who live in the Northwest, or Midwest, or Alaska, or any normal place on earth, this may not seem like big news. But I have lived here since the middle of August and this was the first precipitation. I was beginning to think that my roof was just a decoration. People told me it doesn't normally rain much. This is a desert. So when it started raining on Monday, all of us at church went and stood by the window and looked out at the rain. I'll have to admit, I was glad to see it. It freshened up the air a bit.
They tell me that this winter we might get a lot of rain. I'm not sure what they mean by a lot. They also tell me that it is going to get "cold," but there isn't a lick of insulation in my apartment and the water main valves here are above ground. If 50 degrees is their idea of cold, then I wonder how much rain is "a lot."
I am looking forward to the rain though because it washes the smog out of the air (and into the ocean, along with tons of trash). They tell me that I will be able to see Catalina Island from La Habra Heights. If you look at my bicycle blog you will see that right now, with the smog you can barely see La Habra. So I look forward to rain.