Being an L.A. resident I know what you mean about the lack of rain. But I am not a fan of rain, that is why I moved here from Long Island, New York. I want it to rain here for one reason and one reason only, to prevent forest fires.
Other than that rain gets in my way because I only own motorcycles and will not ride in the rain here in L.A. where people freak out at the sight of a rain drop on their windshield.
The street surfaces themselves turn into what seems like a skating rink because the oils that have soaked into the road for the past almost year since it last rained come to the surface and make it very slick and dangerous to motorvehicles.
After a while those oils are washed away but it is pretty scary until then.
Yes, let it rain here in Southern California but please do it at night when I am sleeping and lets not have any land slides because of the rains this year either?