Constant rain? You don't know constant rain. I just checked the Weather Channel, and it says you've only had rain 8 out of the last 14 days. In November 1998 it rained 27 out of 30 days here. Of course, that's not typical. On average, we only get 18.5 days of rain in November, then 18.7 in December, 17.5 in January, 15.5 in February, 17.1 in March and 14.3 in April. Let me do the math for you, between November and April, here in northwestern Oregon, it rains on average once every two days. The other day out of those two it's cloudy with a chance of rain. In October and May it only rains one out of every three days.

I just thought that might make you feel better about the "constant" rain there.