Yeah, I'm an angry weather nerd

Okay, some people have already heard me complain about this, and now you get to as well. I'm pissed off at this "monster storm" that's hitting California. Not because of the damage it's done to my home, or the inconvenience it's caused me. No, it's because it hasn't done a damn thing in Fresno! I know I'm weird with the "thing" I have about weather- hey, I'm a storm chaser at heart. It's the same trait that makes me love roller coasters and spicy food. And I live in Fresno, which gets about 24,000 days a year of boring weather (meaning sunny and warm- yes, it can be nice when it's not too hot, but it is boring), four days of rain, three days of fog, and two of frost. So I loves me some weather on the rare occasion that we actually get it. All week they've been touting this monster storm and all the wind and heavy rain and yadda yadda yadda, getting me all excited. And then it never showed up. Oh sure, in San Francisco trucks are blowing over on bridges, in Sacramento trees are destroying homes and power lines, in Malibu people are evacuating canyons- but Fresno? Nothing! Mind you, I don't want my power to go out or a tree to fall on my home, but come on! As I was watching the Doppler radar on the Weather Channel yesterday, there was literally a hole right over Fresno- there was rain all around us, even the pretty reds and yellows of severe downpours as close as Madera- but a big old hole of nothin' over Fresno. Even the weather doesn't want to come here. Oh sure, we eventually got some rain and wind and a couple flooded gutters, but seriously, nothing to write a blog about. On my street, some of the garbage bin lids blew open. Woohoo. I'm so scared of the Monster Storm.