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1. hoffanimal
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   Rain is just water that falls from the sky and is as regular as the nose on your face. However, if it is beyond your mental capacity to sensibly drive in it, please stay at home or take the bus.

   Posted 1 year ago #         

2. argiles
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   Totally couldn't agree more Hoffanimal. I'm originally from IL and I am amazed at how rain impacts people out here as seeming how people should be use to it, I mean it is Seattle after all.

   Posted 1 year ago #         

3. austin
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   Something tells me it isn't the rain interfering with peoples ability to operate heavy machinery.

   Posted 1 year ago #         

4. DP
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   —and if it's not the rain, it's the sun.

   Does anyone remember the Great I-5 Sun-Break Smash-Up of 2003?

   It had been raining hard for several months straight, and people had gotten used to driving in it. Over time people began to assume that sunshine was simply a thing of the past (a pleasant childhood memory, perhaps) and hunkered down accordingly behind the wheel.

   Then, WHAM-O! Suddenly the clouds parted, and for a brief moment the sun blazed down in all its glory upon the wet pavement, blinding drivers and causing a hysterical mass freakout that smooshed cars all the way from Federal Way to Tacoma.

   I'm not making this up, people.
   It really happened.

   Posted 1 year ago #         

5. WSB
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   Yes, it did. We covered it at my then-station.

   Meantime, I will admit napping through this morning's downpour after another all-nighter BUT the co-publisher was shepherding Junior Member of the Team to school at the time and reports it was quite the deluge. He grew up in snow and knows how to deal with dangerous driving. So do be kind with this morning's deluged drivers ...

   P.S. The lightning/thunder accompaniment was NOT forecast.

   Posted 1 year ago #         

6. rs261
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   Is it really an all nighter if you slept? Even if it was the morning.

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7. WSB
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   Well, depends on where you draw the line. If you've been up 24 hours? 26 hours? 28 hours? 36?

   At least it's not as bad as the schedule I had at age 22, when dinosaurs walked the earth, where I was holding jobs at a radio station, newspaper, and print shop, and never able to sleep between 7 am Tuesday morning and 11 pm Wednesday night, just couldn't fit it into the schedule. Except for the part where the bumps between the lanes on I-80 woke me up once ... Don't worry, if sleep-deprived, I don't drive any more.

   Posted 1 year ago #         

8. RarelyEver
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   This morning was exceptional. I got up at 7am, and like every morning I took a look out my front room windows (we live on Beach Dr). This morning I thought it was odd how dark it was; I mean, yeah - we're almost at Solstice time and the nights are getting longer, 'n all, but still... to the east around Mt. Rainier you could see dawn giving it the good ol' college try, but to the west it was like the maws of hell were getting ready to open up.

   I next noticed the little orange all-boats-get-the-hell-off-the-sound light pulsing across the way and figured something big (and un-forecast) was about to happen. A few minutes later lightning streaked across the western sky and you could hear that ominous rumbling sound of thunder in the distance. By 7:40am it was ON TOP OF MY HOUSE; lightning, booming thunder and then a downpour like some big dam in the sky had suffered epic failure.

   On the way into work I heard the emergency broadcast system telling people in Snohomish County to stay indoors and away from windows (!). I checked Cliff Mass' blog earlier but didn't see anything about this. Apparently the Great Northwest Weather was feeling capricious this morning. :)

   Posted 1 year ago #         

9. hoffanimal
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   Really? It was just wind and rain in Delridge. Good thing we don't all commute by boat or we'd really be screwed. Driving on paved roads seems to be enough of a challengs.

   Posted 1 year ago #         

10. Semele
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    Oh yeah, and don't forget to turn your freaking headlights on. Don't honk at me when my ability to use x-ray vision fails to see your dark colored car with no lights on in the pouring rain.

    Posted 1 year ago #         

11. JoB
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    the rain softened the mud that held the fence that kept the dog from getting under the back porch at the fateful moment a squirrel decided to duck under the deck :(((

    crawling under the deck in the mud to get the dog.
    priceless.

    Posted 1 year ago #         

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