Seattle brings rain to Venice Beach

Seattle tourism boosters have a brand new technique for luring Californians to the Emerald Metropolis: Give ’em a style of Pacific Northwest rain.

Driving the information: Go to Seattle, the nonprofit tourism bureau, has arrange a “rain sales space” on the boardwalk in Venice Seashore, California, Reuters reports.

• A video exhibits individuals kissing within the sales space and reveling within the novelty of moist drops falling from the sky.

What they’re saying: The concept is to offer Angelenos and different boardwalk guests a respite from the Southern California warmth by bringing them “just a little refreshing Seattle rain,” Ali Daniels, Go to Seattle’s chief advertising officer, instructed Reuters.

• “We’re inviting everybody and anybody to return to the Seattle rain sales space to chill off, to really feel refreshed, and really feel just a little of the Seattle romance and what the rain brings,” Daniels stated.

Melissa’s thought bubble: When was the final time you probably did the entire kissing-in-the-rain factor in Seattle?

• Generally, I believe locals search out dry spots for this, since drizzle right here is not a lot a enjoyable novelty as a continuing, overarching theme of life.
• Plus, if our latest summer time heatwaves are any indication, this rain sales space could possibly be organising some L.A. residents for disappointment.
• What a few wildfire smoke sales space — or a sales space replicating the indoor sweatiness of the vast majority of Seattle houses that do not have central air-con?