I'm so f#*king sick of all this bloody rain

[Beaverhausen]

I don't mean to complain or anything. I'm certainly grateful to have a roof over my head.

But

I just wish it would stop dipping rainwater into the middle of my living room!!!

It has now filled up two big buckets.


PLEASE!!! MAKE IT STOP!!!

[catzies]

1. So sorry you're having to go through this again.

You have the landlord from hell. That sucks.

[Archae]

2. Want the snow we got yesterday?

:-)

[Beaverhausen]

4. I know, I know - but this is California. It doesn't rain here

it's just been non-stop. and it's depressing that I have a living room covered in plastic to keep all my belongings from getting wet.

I spent most of my life in Pennsylvania. I like snow.

[hollywood926]

5. I feel your pain, Beaver....as Bill Clinton would say...

I'm in L.A. and I can't take it much longer!

[khashka]

3. I'm only happy when it rains

I only smile in the dark. My only comfort is the night gone black.


Oh, and yes, if you go to the hardware store you can buy a couple more buckets.

Khash.

[Beaverhausen]

11. I wanted to comment on your Kate Bush sig line

and then my keyboard died at home yesterday...

Love Kate! and love the Garbage song reference too.

Pour your misery down
Pour your misery down on me

[chillynurse]

6. Spring is needed

I tired of the snow/rain/freezing rain, But I am really sick and tired oft he cold. I am freezing.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

7. Yeah..I'm over it...this is a violation of our birthright

[RadicalMom]

8. There, there now. I've got a good roofer if you live in Ventura County.

But he may travel farther. I'd be in the same condition if he hadn't come to my house last summer. I got tired of the growing drip, too.

[Beaverhausen]

10. I'm in LA county. My landlords don't believe in hiring "roofers"

they hire whoever is available to work. Which means the worst, most inept people they can find. And of course...we don't speak the same language.

[RadicalMom]

21. At least you have "somebody" applying chewing gum, or whatever.

Our last apartment in North Hollyweird, years ago, developed a nasty roof leak in our studio, right over a drafting table. We complained repeatedly without success. By the time we moved out, there was an actual hole in it. In the five years we lived there, they wouldn't paint, said we could do it, any color, but they wouldn't pay for materials, even, and then ate our security deposit when we left because we had painted it, they said. Did a nice job, too. Wasn't worth going to court since we had moved 40 miles, and had to take off work to do it. Landlords suck, and actually being one sucks, too.

At some point you can withhold rent until the problem is fixed, or get reimbursement for a repair, but it complicates everything. If you live in the San Fernando Valley, you could go to Law Dogs in Van Nuys on a Wednesday night for free legal advice.

[Beaverhausen]

31. The "roofer" came today to check the leak...

...and walked right thru a puddle of water that was on the plastic sheet I have on my living room floor.

Not around it...through it!!! Of course this causes the water to spill onto the carpet, and he trails his wet shoe prints through the room.

This guy is such an asshole I can't even believe it.

so glad it isn't raining today.

even gladder that I am getting out of town for a few days.

[Carla in Ca]

24. I feel your pain and am trying to get through this

as well. I guess we can stop talking about our 5-year drought now. I found one of our goldfish swimming in a flooded area next to the pond! They can just swim over the side...yikes! Now I go out every hour or so to make sure they are OK.

[SW FL Dem]

17. I miss Ventura County

Lived in TO and Moorpark for several years. Sorry to hear about all the rain and damage to the area.

[RadicalMom]

22. I live in Thousand Oaks, since 1987, and think its the best place to live

in Southern California. Just our opinion, for a lot of reasons. Yes, my sunken living room is again demonstrating the fact that it is sunken. Not as badly as in December, the sandbags are helping. I hear I have to have a french drain installed by a landscaper. We are even under a tornado watch today, all of Southern CA. I don't think I've heard of quite that happening since I've lived in Ca (23 years). Am I in Chicago again? I'd rather it be Seattle.

[SW FL Dem]

26. Sorry to hear about your living room - the french drain isn't a bad

idea, I put one in the muddy area of our yard in Moorpark. Just think of the rest of the year, bright blue skies, ocean breezes, moderate climate and no bugs!

[RadicalMom]

28. Thanks. It is sunny right now, and the bushes in my yard are bloomimg.

I always appreciate living here. When we first moved from Chicago in 1981, I was terrified. Thought I'd never figure the place out. In two weeks, though, I wanted to never go back to Chicago, and we haven't. Most of the relatives moved here within two years. So, now we live in our favorite vacation place, the West Coast. I know you guys have awesome bugs down there. I think I have to clean bugs off my windshield once or twice a year! Sometimes it was every hour in the midwest in the summer.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

9. Funny story (maybe not so much, but here it is)

I live on a boat in the Keys. A couple of years ago we had several weeks of unending rain. Unbeknownst to us, one of the bilges became clogged, and at two in the morning, on my way to the head, I swung my legs out of bed and stepped into water up to my calves. I awoke my husband and my closest neighbors on the dock and we spent several frantic hours pumping and bailing and trying to discover the problem. Being a good hostess, I made coffee for all of the volunteers. At approximately five a.m. the boat was out of danger, but the whole crew was buzzed to the hilt from the caffeine. As we sat in the galley celebrating our success, we watched the sun come up over the bay. It is a sweet memory of neighbors helping neighbors. But to this day, I still reach over the side of the bed from time to time, just to make sure that all I touch is carpet.

[Beaverhausen]

12. and now there is a tornado watch

:mad:

I've just about had it.

[The Minus World]

13. Look on the bright side

At least we're not in Iran.

[skygazer]

14. I'm with you - sick of it

Bad enough in the Bay Area but I understand down south there have been numerous mudslides, etc. The ground can only handle so much saturation (and I'm sure your living room as well).

I'm frustrated because, after a number of years of not having a horse to ride regularly, I've found a woman who needs help exercising her nine Arabs - perfect situation except that I no sooner met her than it started to rain and we haven't been able to ride yet. Sometimes, I think I'm cursed. :shrug:

[maveric]

15. Its coming down hard in San Diego. And I hear "We need the rain".

Well I dont! I need my fucking sunshine! NOW!!

[ronnykmarshall]

16. I'm wondering if our roof is gonna hold up.

The building to due to replace it this year.

[Beaverhausen]

18. I suggest doing some sort of ritual

I think the constant drip I hear as the water falls into the buckets is effecting me like a chinese water torture...

pray yours doesnt' start leaking.

[ronnykmarshall]

19. I keep looking for signs.

We had a leak a few years ago that was "fixed". I'm sure the el gatos will let us know if we get another.

[Stop_the_War]

20. Be happy you live in a blue state!

[hfojvt]

23. Rain on a leaking roof is the worst

Even if the roof doesn't leak I get tired of hearing all the drip, drip, drip and the shoooshing of car tires on wet pavement. I call it the Wisconsin Water Torture since Wisconsin was the place where I experienced the most three or four day rains.
I usually crack after a mere six hours or so - "I'll talk, I tell you everything you want to know. Just make it stop. Please."

[Beaverhausen]

25. and did I mention how my cats DO NOT like the thunder

my little Annie was very upset friday night with all that loud booming sound. She hadn't heard it before.

She kept coming into my bedroom with the most mournful meow I have ever heard.

[progmom]

27. famine, war, pestilence, giant tsunamis, now bloody rain?

Maybe the apocolypse is coming after all? :scared:

[DrGonzoLives]

29. It's raining blood?

Holy fucking hell, it's the End Times!

REPENT, YE SINNERS

[progmom]

30. hey!

You stole my joke!


Joke stealer!