Seattle Rain Festival

A newcomer to Seattle arrives on a rainy day. He gets up the next day and it's raining. It also rains the day after that, and the day after that. He goes out to lunch and sees a young kid and asks out of despair, 

"Hey kid, does it ever stop raining around here?" 

The kid says, "How do I know? I'm only 6."

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A Seattle rainbow

From the KIRO-TV website (kiro.tv/HeavyRain), a Seattle rainbow:

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Thunder and lightning in Seattle

By Jack Brummet

Midnight, Friday:  What a great lightning storm tonight—from giant balls to hydra-limbed bolts raining down, and sometimes looking like they were shooting up—*from*, and not to, earth [1]. The lightning dances across the sky and I hear the muffled, slow-rolling thunder circle in the clouds overhead, and I'm swallowed up in the soft percussion of the warm falling rain.

[1] Someone just told me that lightning goes both up AND down.

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The Lake Of Fire

A man died and found himself in limbo, waiting in a long, long line for judgment. He noticed that some souls were allowed to march right through the pearly gates. Others were led over to Satan, who threw them into a lake of fire. Every so often, instead of hurling a condemned soul into the lake of fire, Satan would toss him or her off to one side.

After watching Satan do this several times, the men's curiosity got the better of him. He strolled over to The Great Deceiver:

"Excuse me, there, Your Darkness," he said. "I'm waiting in line for judgment, and I couldn't help wondering why you toss some people off to the side instead of flinging them into the fires of hell with the others?"

"Ah," Satan said with a grin. "Those people are from Seattle. I'm just letting them dry out so they'll burn."

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Seattle Drying Out Festival Begins (July 4 - ?)

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