I was eating at a Restaurant on the Santa Barbara coast this morning with my wife and a friend and very surprised to look outside and see rain coming down. We had seen the dark clouds (But it's southern California in a drought) so we didn't believe it could rain. However, it did and is still raining many places from Paso Robles and Porterville on down in patches all the way to Tijuana and parts of what appear to be a part of this same storm all the way across to Snow in Wichita Kansas and Amarillo, Texas.
I only had a nice wool overshirt and nothing else to shield me from the rain as a galantly walked a block and a half to my wife's Lexus so I could drive around a few blocks and pick them up so they wouldn't get wet.
Then we drove onto the Santa Barbara Pier. One of the amazing things about Santa Barbara is that the beaches face south whereas most beaches in California face variations of West. So, Santa Barbara is sort of unique in it's southward facing beaches. At the end of the pier is a painted Compass that demonstrates this quite well. I looked down at the I believe 12 inch or more by 4 inch thick planks we were all driving on out to the end of the pier. A restaurant I like called Moby Dick is a good place for food if you like Fish or Lobster by the way. You might get a table watching the boats and Sailboats coming in and out of the marina too there.
Our friend had to brave the rain and said she was in rain off and on all the way north as far as Paso Robles today by the way.
Four hours later after raining off and on all day since breakfast until dinner and now almost 11 pm.
Amazingly enough it's still raining in a lot of Southern California from about Paso Robles to Tijuana to Death Valley and Las Vegas and points East of there. East of Las Vegas right now it is mostly snow in the mountains and plains states.
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