Reply #35: It's the Bay Area's version of the "Seven-Year Itch"

[TahitiNut]

It seems like the Bay Area, Silicon Valley, and the Santa Cruz mountains (including Hwy 17 and Hwy 9) get a short-term snow accumulation every seven years or so ... just enough to be a reminder of the diversity of climate and not too long to lose its novelty appeal. The greatest 'hardship' I ever experienced resulting from freezing weather in Silicon Valley was the demise of my enormous (3' high and 5' wide) jade plant in my patio. I was too much of a novice to realize it needed to be covered and protected from the hard freeze - since, as one born and raised in Michigan, such weather wasn't unusual to me.

I still aspire to live where such weather is a novelty. It's fun to be around people who get the shits and giggles from snow.