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An amusing joke, but while rain is frequent in the winter in the PNW (Pacific Northwest USA) the rain is often light. Seattle residents tend not to use umbrellas unless the rain is particularly heavy. It might not be a very good power source.

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All it took was a year and a half in Bellevue and I've never needed protection from the rain ever since.

Now that I'm back in California I get a lot of weird looks in the office when I go out into the rain on purpose. It's a lot easier to appreciate the rain here when it's not raining nonstop for nine months.

Come spend some time in the Gulf Coast! Rain here actually physically hurts, sometimes. Big droplets (though probably not as big as the ones in the Alaskan Panhandle[0]), falling at a very rapid pace, looks and feels like a curtain of water. It's not unusual to have an inch an hour.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchikan,_Alaska#/media/File:...

I get the same puzzled bemusement here in Idaho. Originally from the Oregon Coast I now relish a good rain and love a long walk through it.

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