Just another rainy day.
I am sitting in my apartment listening to the rain smack my A/C unit. This was something that I could not have foreseen. I’ve never owned a window A/C unit before, and didn’t think about the noise it would make when rain hits the aluminum casing. We actually had to sleep with our bedroom door closed one evening, the sound was so loud (the unit is in our living room window.) Though it is not currently a heavy rain. When it rains here in New York, it is really just a little drizzle, but all of the locals seem to think it is a torrential downpour. The first truly rainy day that I experienced was last fall, and what made that day miserable was the chill that came with the cold rain. Had the temperature been a little warmer, it would have been the perfect day to take nice long walks in the rain. Imagine my surprise when I got home that evening and the weather forecaster said it had been pouring rain all day. Pouring rain! I don’t think anything but the soles of my shoes got wet. In Georgia, Florida, or even Texas when it rains, it truly pours. It is as if God turns on a giant faucet and just dumps water on those southern states. I suppose by the time it makes it’s way up here to New York, God starts running out of water. The thing that adds power to the rain here in New York is the wind. When we moved, we had two umbrellas to our name. One broke during a windy rain storm, the other I forgot on a bus one day. Daniel was not too happy about the latter, since it was a nice wind-resistant umbrella. We have since researched and purchased two wind-defying umbrellas, that can resist gust of wind up to 35 mph. This is especially important when walking around Manhattan. New York is not usually thought of as a windy city, but the buildings create these unbelievably strong wind tunnels that can knock poor unsuspecting pedestrians clear off their feet in shocking surprise and unfortunately destroy beautiful umbrellas. It is sad to think of all the umbrellas that will lay sadly forgotten in the streets tomorrow, due to their lack of structural integrity…
