20-Something Ways The Bay Area Laughed At The 'Storm Of The Century'
'Storm of the Century'... really? It's 2014 and so-called climate change is just getting started. No worries. You know that saying, 'when life give you lemons, make lemonade'? Well, the Bay Area certainly made lemonade out of all that rain, when Storm of the Century passed through Thursday. Here are 20-something ways the Bay Area managed to laugh when Mama Nature threw her latest tantrum.
We Built An Arc
If you are one of the folks who sent money to this guy, we've got a bridge for sale we'd like you to check out. It's called the Golden Gate... we can give you a great deal.
A Little Rain Never Stopped Us From Protesting
You just didn't hear about it because every TV news truck was somewhere taking pictures of puddles.
We Wrote Poetry
Even Caltrans got in the act, and placed poems along flooded roadways.
We Tweeted Like Crazy
This map shows Northern California out-tweeted the entire nation. We suspect the map looks like this every day because in the Bay Area, there's no such thing as an untweetable moment.
We Shopped
Schools were closed so Moms had found ways to get shopping done with the kids in tow.
We made more hashtags and memes.
We Drank Beer
Honestly, beer drinkers here don't need a reason to imbibe. The storm just made beer-drinking more fun. Plus, there's no law against drinking and driving inner tubes.
We Kayaked
...And We Kayaked
...And We Kayaked!
Who knew we had so many kayaks in our garages?
We Drove Our Cars Anyway... Dammit!
We Surfed Lake Tahoe
Those hurricane force gale winds whipped up waves where there normally are none. Thank you.
We Laughed At L.A.
Rumor has it, this photo came from Florida, but as the storm headed to Los Angeles, someone actually took the time to make this meme... and tweet it.
We Went To The Beach... Anyway
Kids, don't try this at home. A surf warning was in effect, but you gotta admit this picture is friggin' awesome.
We Went Wakeboarding
... at Safeway.
We Made Geysers Out Of Manholes
This was actually an accident... but it's pretty cool to look at.
We Turned Miniature Golf Courses Into Theme Parks
The Russian River spared the mini-golf animals up in Guerneville.
We Put Our Cats On Storm Watch
No list would be complete without a cute kitty. So here's ours.
