"Judy Haffner" > wrote in message
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>
> Julie Bove wrote:
>
>>I have never been there and really have
>> no desire to. I have been told it is
>> beautiful but I am not an outdoorsy
>> person and dislike cold weather and
>> especially snow and ice.
>
>>I like it best here in WA. Yes, people do
>> tend to be outdoorsy here but we do not
>> usually have extremes in weather nor do
>> we have a lot of sunshine so for me it is
>> doable.
>
> That's a misconception many have about Alaska. Where we live, it is very
> mild, and not near as cold as many states. We just had our first frost
> last week, and no snow yet, and back East, they are dealing with PILES
> of snow, power outages, etc. It rarely gets down into the teens for lows
> in the winter at night, and we don't have all that much snow either. Our
> summers are warm and pleasant...no humidity and no triple digit
> temperatures either.
>
> We get quite a bit of rain year around, but probably no more than you do
> in WA. We've been there, and have many friends living there, and they
> complain about so much rain.
>
> I'm not an outdoor's person either, but I love it here. You don't have
> to be an outdoor's enthusiast to enjoy living here.
>
> Judy
> P.S. We also don't have to deal with hurricanes, tornadoes, ice storms,
> blizzards, and severe flooding either and even thunder/lightening is a
> rare occurrence.

Interesting! I don't think we get a lot of rain here. Sure at times I wish
it wouldn't rain so much. But after living in PA, MA, and NY I know they
get more rain there than we do here. Lack of sun here, yes!

My daughter spent her early years in Alameda CA. She didn't know what rain
was. Yes it rained there. Once for about two weeks but mostly at night. I
guess she doesn't remember. Rained so hard there was flooding in some
areas.

We moved from there and were staying overnight in a motel. There was an
outdoor pool. She wanted to go in the pool. I kept telling her she
couldn't because it was raining. Actually now that I think of it that is
probably a silly thing to say. Who would really care about rain in a pool?
Or maybe you would. Maybe when coming up for air you would get rain in your
nose. Anyway... What I said didn't have a meaning to her and she asked me
what those drops of water were coming from the sky? She had never seen rain
before.

For as nice as the weather was in Alameda (pretty much 70 year round), it
wasn't a good place to live. Not IMO. It was expensive. Few good
restaurants or places to shop. Pretty much you had to leave the island and
go to Oakland or San Francisco. And then you were battling the traffic. I
hate traffic!