The problem is that Los Angeles gets the majority of its rain (about 11 inches a year) in February).
Its not that people can't drive in a sprinkle (tho they typically don't), its that when it seems the gods are pouring 10 buckets of water a minute on Your windshield, its hard to do much other than grit your teeth, hold onto the steering wheel and pray. Add to that the fact that the streets get really slippery since they don't have regular rainstorms to wash the oil off them and yeah, it's a disaster waiting to happen. -----Original Message----- From: Justin Scott [mailto:jscott-li...@gravityfree.com] Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 3:42 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: SoCal rainstorm & traffic Robert Munn wrote: > On the way, we lost track of the number of accidents we saw on the side of > the road (including two that had the entire freeway stopped in one When I lived in the Los Angeles area back in 2000-2001 it became expected that the top news story on any night when it had rained that day would be how many accidents there were on I-5 and the various other freeways in the area. One drop of water falls from the sky and everybody forgets how to drive! Fortunately, I had come from Florida so I have a lot of experience driving in the rain with the bonus of knowing how to avoid insane drivers (retirement communities abound in Florida). The traffic out there still gave me a run for my money sometimes though. Glad I'm not in that mess anymore. -Justin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:288702 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
