Winter in San Francisco. Hardly.

Nothing to do with IP Telephony, SMB Channels, VC's or anything remotely connected to my work life. But I had to say something.

After more than ten years (very lucky ones) of living in San Francisco - hailing from my birth place of Montreal - it never ceases to take me aback when the first 'Winter' storm rolls into town. You would think the world was crumbling. I can still remember my very first one back in '97. It was all over the news. Threats of ominous weather patterns approaching the Bay that would all but ground us to a halt. Frankly, I did not know what to expect. Where I came from, if they said we were going to be ground to halt, we were literally. That's what 30 inches of snow and below zero temperatures does to a city.

But, alas, this Winter storm was hardly that. It rained. And yes, the wind blew for some time. No snow, and no freezing temperatures though. Could this be Winter, I remember thinking at the time. Fast forward to this week, and here we go again. The soft skinned Bay Area, spoiled by its 300 days of sunshine and zero days of minus anything, is once again bracing for the first big storm of the year.

I surely have plenty to be thankful for as I head into 2008.