Susan Estrich: It never rains in California

Except when it does. Which isn’t often. Usually, when it rains, we apologize to tourists and visitors, take out our (perpetually) almost new raincoats and say things like “We need this” and “Don’t you just love the rain?”

Then it goes back to being 70-something degrees and sunny for a few more months, and we don’t even bother to check the weather. The Maytag repairman and the Los Angeles weatherman could hang out.