Seattle rain

Seattle downtown in the rain (but of course)

Here on the leftiest part of the left coast, where Occupy has wide-spread sympathy, devolution has begun. The early protest and encampment took advantage of an atypically glorious autumn. Every November, the jet stream shifts and begins funneling vortices from the Gulf of Alaska right down our throats about every other day. On the lull days it just rains, and rains. The indigenous Salish have a dozen names for rain. It falls from a uniform sheet of gray stratus that hovers ominously…

Seattle, Washington State

Much to the dismay of the recent California migrants that make up 60% of the Seattle-area population, recent Puget Sound weather patterns continue to show no sign of shifting from “gray with …