Water is Falling from the SKY!!!

Attention fellow SOCALers - the sun is NOT visible today, and water appears to be falling from dark, gray skies. Please allow an extra 2 hours for your commute.

Signed,

Storm Watch 2004

Remember, wet pavement adds an extra hour.

Pcat (Things I don't miss from California: commuting on the 'Tura, smog days, and Orange County twitlings.... though the last are moving to Colorado in droves....)

Wuz it worth it? :toast:

We're headed back to being a Blue state. (we were a blue state until we got that influx of Orange County asshats.) Yeah, it's been worth it. The hard work to turn this state blue has been as rewarding as the lives I've touched here.... :-)

I did summer university work in Ventura... I came from a Brick Red State - Arizona. Colorado is HEAVEN compared to AZ.

I couldn't afford to work in CA. The malpractice insurance was too high. Here, I can barely afford it, but I can. (I can't afford a billing clerk, but...) There were also some health issues - I get very, very sick in smoggy conditions. I miss the beach, but...

:toast:

There is a word for what you are seeing. Rain. You've seen it in the movies. Now you get to see and experience it for yourself.

Like having Disneyland come to you.

But I love it. :toast:

It was all over the van so didn't think it was safe to drive it so I took the bus.

People ski on it and things like that?

:hi: Drive safe.

I moved here six years ago from Vermont and I'm still stunned when, every year when the rain comes, everyone has forgotten how to drive in it. Yesterday, it was a little wet and I was stuck following some moran going 40 on the highway. IT'S RAIN! It's not snow, it's not ice, it's not sleet! It's just rain!!!!

On the bright side, though, I don't have to shovel my driveway...

If there is an inch of frozen precipitation on the ground, whole cities shut down. Very few people here know how to drive in anything except hot, sunny weather (and even when it's raining, they drive as if it's a sunny day and the streets are dry).

The first year I was out here, I had a place up in the mountains. We got about five or six inches of snow up there and I was stuck home for FOUR DAYS! It wasn't so much because I couldn't drive in it - it was because my car, which I had bought here, had silly summer tires on it and the county stopped plowing four miles from my place. I got halfway out the mile long drive but the hill at the end stymied my poor little California car and I was out of luck. I've never been stranded by snow for longer than a day back home.

As soon as I could get out, I bought a full set of all seasons. No more problems. People think you need four wheel drive for snow - decent tires and some sense is all you need.

Witness this article:
http://komotv.com/stories/33556.htm
Including this gem for the ages: "Pavements with water on 'em are a lot slicker than pavements without water on them," Baker says.