Lane Anderson posted:"I swore a solemn oath to NEVER again allow Speedy out even with dark clouds on the horizon...let alone in any friggin' rain! "
That's easier to do in CA than in other parts of the country. Here in coastal SC we have pop-up showers pretty much any time during the warmer months. The heat and humidity are such that all it takes is the right wind to squeeze the air a bit and a thunderhead forms out of nowhere. You have to be prepared, and you have to accept that at some point you WILL get rained on.
The "usual" weather and accurate forecasts (thank you, satellites) are a couple of the FEW - and as time goes by, make that VERY FEW - reasons to live and stay in CA. For decades, all our weather was "blamed" on if we were having an El Nino or a La Nina year. Now, the "progressives" (Jeez, I hate that stupid term - they're "regressive," if anything) are claiming the weather is based upon "global warming" and we're doomed. Duh! What the hell was the earth's weather based upon when it came out of the freaking Ice Age? Global Warming, that's what! ...and that was 11,552 years ago - June, I think. I'm sorry...I digress.