i lived in portland and vancouver for 32 of my 34 years. i'm in phoenix now and i thought i had finally escaped the rain. wrong. it's rained more here in feb. than it has in seattle. when i first moved here, i thought it was strange because everybody got excited when it was supposed to rain. kinda like we northwesterners are with snow. well, rain sucked in portland and it sucks in phx. i guess cali. is getting it worse so i shouldn't complain too much. hopefully everything will be back to normal by spring. is there an el nino or something in the pacific? dry in the nw and wet in the sw seems ass backward.