East Coast - West Coast

[PrettySquareGal]

Give me four seasons, all of them cool please! Funny thing about where I live, it may be cold and windy sometimes, but the sun is pretty much always out. Plus I never feel dressed outside if I'm not wearing an overcoat.

Northeast for me, that's it. Maybe move around a bit within the Northeast, and visit other places, but all other places just seem like nice places to visit.

Besides, where can you get good corned beef on the West Coast?

I totally forgot to mention needing four seasons and corned beef. Maine is lacking in real Jewish delis, so I go to NYC for that. Or do you know of one?

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

Here in the San Fernando Valley, we do have seasons, if not snow and sleet. It does get down to the low 30s at night in the winter, and up to 105+ during the day in summer. I like the spring and fall here.

 

[John in Covina]

Highly seasoned!

I have to admit. I yearn for seasons.

Move inland! Here in the San Gabriel Valley we get colder winters and hotter summers than the coastal areas.

In truth Southern California has 2 seasons, Brown and Green:

During the hotter months June thru October sometimes November rain tends to be scarce and the Mountains, hills and fields, dry out and go brown. Also if there is smog days, it's usually during the hotter dry season and even the air turns brown. (It's nothing like in the early 80's.)

Then when it cools off and especially when the rains come the mountains, hills and fields green up nicely and the air tends to be clearer with very few if any smog days. November thru May.

Now we can have odd ball weather, like hot Santa Ana winds, where there is a high pressure system over the desert to the East and the pressure sends the winds over the mountains. The action of going over the mountains heats the air up and the humidiity drops to single digits. Usually this blows the dust & smog out over the ocean and the air is brilliantly clear! Best time to take pictures of the mountains.

Sometimes we get weather from the South West over and up from Hawaii and then we get rain and humidity and thunderstorms too. In the winter it warms it up and in the summer makes for high humidity in a place where is usually low.

If you live in the mountain communities in So Cal you'll have all 4 seasons.

Today it should make the 80's!

Sincerely,

 

[Briscoeteque]

I don't know why it would ever need to be warmer than 60 degrees, unless I was on vacation or something. Summers in Maine can get too hot for me sometimes. Low 30's at night's not cold at all, I can get away without my fur Ushanka. Plus the Foliage, I think Maine definately has the best I've ever seen. And Spiny Lobsters are a poor substitute for real Lobster; best meat's in the claw.

Unfortuneately, I can't get good corned beef around here eiather, but I will take trips to New York for the express purpose of getting a sandwich. If I lived on the West Coast, I'd need use the Carnigie Deli hotline, and that adds up.

Something about New England seasons is different for me; it's more then wild tempurature variations. I love to struggle in the cold winters and snow, I love the foliage, I don't mind lazy summers, and something in the pollen around here in spring makes me happy for no reason.

 

[Lincsong]

And don't forget the talented Carol Doda!

Yeah she was pushing 55 I think when she finally gave it up. I remember that sign on the Condor Club with the lighted uh-hems.lol

 

[Haversack]

Lincsong wrote in regard to a post by Marc Chevalier
--"And don't forget the talented Carol Doda!"
"Yeah she was pushing 55 I think when she finally gave it up. I remember that sign on the Condor Club with the lighted uh-hems."

Unfortunatley, the neon sign at the Condor is no longer there. The plaque the ECV put up however, is still with us. The bar, while it is itself now a sports bar also still has the infamous piano in the ceiling. But Ms. Doda is still with us and owns a lingerie shop for gifted ladies out off of Union.

There is a fair variety of places, climates, and people out here. In California, the main division is between North and South. In Oregon and Washington, it is between East and West. Even so, there are further differentiations that can be made. Most conceptions of California exclude the really northern and eastern parts. For example, a couple of the coldest places in the Lower 48 can be found in California. Also, how people got here, where they came from, and when they got here affects the local character. Back during the 1850s on the Oregon-California Trail, it was noted that there was a distinct difference between the people headed to the Oregon Territory, (mostly large families looking for good land to farm), and California, (mostly young single men out to make their fortune). This distinction and many others continue to shape regional differences.

I recall a news story making the rounds last year about the difference between the East Coast and the West. Some national survey asked people that if given a choice between a supernatural ability to fly and the power to make oneself invisible. No real difference between sexes, ages, or education was noted. What jumped out of the data was that a very large majority of the choosers of invisibility were from the East Coast or Mid-West, and a very large majority who chose flight were from the West. Make of that what you will...

Haversack