LA suffers a healthy dose of rain

Lately some people around UCLA have been getting on my nerves. As you may know, it has been raining this past week in Westwood and the greater Los Angeles area. However, according to people’s reactions, you’d think we’d be stuck in the middle of the blizzard. The evening news devotes half the night’s coverage to flooding and a couple of poorly built houses that slid down a hillside. Around UCLA, people can’t stop talking about how they forgot to bring an umbrella and they got wet. In my classes, people won’t shut up about the weather. It’s just a little rain, for crying out loud! The past few days, I haven’t been using an umbrella nor have I worn a heavy jacket. It simply isn’t raining that hard. However, I always see people walking around campus with heavy duty snowboarding jackets and ponchos.

Just imagine if it snowed here one day. I think some people would implode.