SoCal winter = best winter

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postmortemIA

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I don't think it is that nice over there, I remember when visiting seeing all these.

As you drive towards LA, this is first you get to see: smog

los-angeles-smog-1-1024x703.jpg

Once you get out, you'll see..
dirty streets
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overcrowding
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homeless folks
skid-row-trash-street.jpg

bad roads
crumbling-roads.jpg
 

Ns1

No Lifer
Jun 17, 2001
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I don't think it is that nice over there, I remember when visiting seeing all these.

As you drive towards LA, this is first you get to see: smog

los-angeles-smog-1-1024x703.jpg

Once you get out, you'll see..
dirty streets
article-0-0C8C74B800000578-54_468x318.jpg

overcrowding
405gridlock.jpg

homeless folks
skid-row-trash-street.jpg

bad roads
crumbling-roads.jpg

if you go to the ghetto parts of any major metropolitan city, that's how it looks. Why do you hate poor people so much? That last pic isn't even LA bro.
 
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ponyo

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It was 11 F this morning. But I survived. I had on 6 layers of shirts and 3 layers of pants. And 2 pairs of socks. I also bought 2 portable propane heaters. I had to take off my windbreaker and jacket because I was so hot. Tomorrow should be piece of cake. It's only supposed to be 20 F in the morning and warm up to 40F by the afternoon. That will probably feel like Spring.
 

feralkid

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Most of socal is either a desert or close to it. Definition of a desert is less than 10 in precipitation/year, most of socal is in the 10-15 inches per year range.


Thank you. Even many people in Phoenix don't think they live in the desert because they have grass lawns and palm trees.

It's all about aridity, but arguments continue.

True story.
 

bradly1101

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Who does that? In order to make the timing work, you'd get in like 3 runs of skiing, haul ass back into town and get in an hour of surfing before the sun sets... Why not just do one activity all day Saturday and one activity all day Sunday?

Although, I will say that I believe my brother did, at one point, spend a day kitesurfing on the Columbia Gorge and then went up to Mt. Hood to go night skiing, so I guess there are lunatics everywhere. Which does challenge your claim that such a thing could only be done in SoCal. Doesn't make it sensible.

It's for the ability to say, "I've done it."