Geez Dodo... thanks for bursting my bubble... your just too good at your geography. But you do have to admit that PNW sounds alot better than Inland Empire.... Big Bend Country..... or Channeled Scab Lands..... just too bad I'm not closer to the Palouse or the Okanogan country.
Hubba.... I've never heard the shovel rain line before... thats a good one, but boy when it does snow on your side... look out.... and stay off the freeways.