Yes, the beauty of this place is a well kept secret, while the rain is a standing joke, and, still, Rosebrook, didn't it seem to you that this last winter was *unusually* wet? Art, when I was at a Juneau Folk Festival a few years back one man sang a rather hauntingly sweet song, the chorus of which ended "Rainy weather always makes me homesick, Southeast, for you."
n.b. Southeast is what residents of the panhandle of Alaska call their part of the state. Barbara.