My impression of California is that the weather is perfect, until it’s deadly.
Yeah, that’s pretty accurate. They tell us it’s a desert, with lots of trees. So it gets dry for extended periods. Then fires burn lots of acres. Then it rains, and the ash and dirt turn to mud and rock slides because the greenery is burned away. It’s also full of big cities so the roads collect oil and dirt for a year while the drains get clogged with debris and trash. Then it rains and the roads are slick and the sewers overflow. And some of the roads aren’t designed for drainage. I was in a friend’s mid 1970’s 4x4 Toyota with large, fat tread tires yesterday hauling some cartons to an industrial park. The roads are wide but at the bottom of the hill the right lane hand 2 feet of water pooled. I really wanted to make a splash, but it wasn’t my truck and it was “clean” from the last 3 days of rai so it would’ve been rude of me to return it to the friend all splashed up.