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How to Welcome Bad Weather

Don't let your fear dampen this adventure.

Heather Havrilesky
Jan 03, 2022
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Storm Cloud, Lake George (1923) by Georgia O’Keeffe

Today I woke up to the sound of heavy rain, wind, and thunder, and I lay in bed feeling grateful for bad weather. After 24 years of LA sunshine, nothing is better than this. I couldn’t resist pulling up the radar app on my phone – green blobs, red blobs, a severe thunderstorm approaching from the southw…

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