<p>I go to school in upstate New York, and it rains a lot. I always check the weather before I go to classes, and if it looks like it’s going to rain, I bring a rain coat.</p>
<p>When it starts to rain midday (after most people are already out on campus going to classes), I see a lot of people with jackets and umbrellas, but about HALF of the people are just wearing T-shirts, soaked and shivering. If it starts to rain before people go to class, I see a lot more people with rain wear. It rains probably every third day here, and yet even as the weeks and months go by and I’d expect people to learn to prepare better, the proportions don’t change.</p>
<p>This really baffles me. Why are these people without rain protection? They’re obviously miserable. I can only wonder if they’re stupid or something. Seriously. It takes like 30 seconds to check the weather online and save yourself hours of misery, but people do not seem to learn that even after being drenched multiple times per week.</p>
<p>Sometimes rain is unexpected. One time when I was in high school, it was all sunny, but then at the end of 3rd period, it was suddenly pouring buckets for no reason. The weather forecast said nothing about rain that day, either. Another time was when I was in Hawaii with my high school choir and it suddenly sun-showered as we were boarding a yacht for a “sunset cruise”.</p>
<p>I actually didn’t come to college with rainboots, a rain coat, or an umbrella, because I’ve never had to walk everywhere. Before now, I’d have to run a few feet to get into my car and I’d be fine. I never had to walk 10+ minutes in the pouring rain. And no one really ever mentioned to me that that is something I’d definitely need: Rain gear. So it never crossed my mind, until it became a problem.</p>
<p>Anyways. After all of that, I’m now trying my hardest to find something that is remotely water-proof that isn’t $90 and it’s pretty difficult… So I guess I’ll just suffer through the rain more until I find something.</p>
<p>Actually this seems like an opportunity to sell emergency ponchos and make a few bucks.
Ponchos are light and at $5 a pop you could make some good dough.</p>
<p>I’ve never seen anyone around here wear rain boots or rain coats and it rains just about every day…</p>
<p>I bring an umbrella every day but I lost mine today because it was too big to fit in my backpack. Retracing all of my steps was not successful. I need to get a smaller one…</p>
<p>I don’t see any point in checking the weather, though. This time of year it’s going to rain every day without fail.</p>
<p>While you’re spending 30 seconds checking the weather, I’m spending 30 more seconds sleeping. That’s why more kids don’t check the weather in the morning.</p>
<p>Actually, I also used to not do it because I wouldn’t be able to just check the weather. I would check email, Facebook, etc.</p>
<p>I use the Weather app on my droid and I refresh it and it’ll say there’s only a 30% chance of rain when I see MASSIVE black clouds in the sky.</p>
<p>Like whenever we had our second massive storm this week, I checked the weather, it didn’t say anything about rain. I left for class and it was completely clear. I got out at 8:40 and it was pouring.</p>
<p>NOBODY wears raincoats or rainboots around here. Might carry an umbrella but more likely to wear a hooded sweatshirt if under the age of 30. It was a huge culture shock to go to college 20 miles away and feel like a freak for NOT having rainboots! It took me a few months to get with the program, it just seemed so ODD!</p>
<p>ETA: And for the record, my rainboots were cheap $30 target ones and were good. The raincoat, however, I was lucky to find something under $50. I caught a good sale on lands end after checking every brick and mortar store I could find and saw nothing under $100.</p>
<p>Perhaps there are other people like myself who enjoy getting mildly soaked . For people of a certain age , I enjoy getting wet , and walking into a building with A/C and feeling cold ! Most of the time I feel hot , so I welcome the chance to feel cooler . I know it’s going to rain , but raincoats can make me feel hot .</p>
<p>I feel that some people are just accustomed to the amount of rain in those areas. At my school, I see people just walking when it is pouring and they seem to not care at all. I just love rain in the east coast, definitely not the same as Seattle rain!</p>
<p>As a resident of Seattle, you get used to the rain. When tourists scramble under sheafs of papers or don flimsy windbreakers, we just put on a hoodie and stroll briskly into the downpour. I swear, living here has given me partial immunity to the common cold. And checking the forecast? Its like smiling at a child’s drawing- its nice to hear the hints of partly cloudy, but you always expect rain.</p>
<p>While many prefer to clutch an umbrella for the inevitable, college kids here have a tendency to incorporate hoodies, North Face (everyone has a set), or Goretex into their fashion. Seeing rain 100/365 days just gives you apathy from getting a few drops of water. You can always grab a warm latte from Starbucks anyways.</p>
<p>I will sometimes bring my rain jacket if it says it is going to rain, but sometimes you just are not always planning on it. though it sounds like it rains a lot more often. other people, if it is not raining at the time, they just do not want to carry around stuff they are not using/don’t know if they use. the point is you have your stuff and i would not worry about whether or not other people are using theirs/ if they have them at all.</p>
<p>Tons of girls with rainboots here and plenty of people in general with umbrellas. I usually check the weather forecast from the local newspaper’s weather blog which has been far more reliable than Weather Channel or anything else. Sometimes I simply forget my umbrella though, like last Friday. I walk to my bus stop and it’s barely drizzling. I get on campus, get off the bus and it immediately starts dumping down like a fire hose. I was soaked when I got to class, and it would happen to a lesser extent later in the day.</p>
<p>At one point it was coming down heavily for almost an hour… which isn’t fun when you really want to leave the library and have a smoke break!</p>
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