Anya ,'Sleeper'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
It sort of freaks me out, Robin. It's not so much that I am afraid to drive in it, as i am afraid of the other people driving in it.
Plus, I have little autopilot routes the way I did on the East Coast that just let you sort of groove through any weather. I drove through the snow and icy roads when I was home and it didn't take but a minute to remember how to drive on the slippery.
Here, I panic from the other drivers whom I am convinced are driving too fast to maneuver.
We drove around the neighborhood this morning after chicken fried steak at Bob's Big Boy to see the relative effectiveness of the storm drains around here. Lankershim has a few good storm drains, but most of the street is entirely screwed and the outer lanes are under 8" of water at least. Our side street has bad flow patterns so it's got a good 5-8' wide river along the curb, but our main street and alley are doing fine.
I still have a shitload of work to do today, but fortunately my dialup hasn't crapped out on me yet, and my other team members are also currently online, too.
They either drive too fast or too slow with jamming on the brakes every five seconds. No, it's most funny when I am sitting home watching on TV (especially the hysterical coverage on local news), actually on the roads--not so hilarious.
Yeah, here it's the other drivers who scare me.
So sorry about the leaky roof, Robin! And I hope BF's back is improving despite that.
Yeah, it's crazy out there. I am very glad I only have to drive a mile to work tomorrow.
I am bummed that I haven't had time to get new shoes for my car yet. Maybe Monday afternoon, after my charts are due. Or maybe I'll drive Hank. Hank is FUN to drive in the rain!
Hank is fun all the time!
He totallly is! But it's extra fun to sploosh through the giant riverstreets and drench other cars with a wall of water. Heh.
LA rain is comedy rain, as native Californians are afraid of Water Falling From the Sky and this causes them to freak out which is amusing to transplanted east Coasters.
... and downright bloody hilarious to anyone visiting from the UK, iirc!
This year, though, the rain hysteria seems slightly tempered by the realization that while the rain is inconvenient (and the snow in the mountains is wickedly inconvenient -- people were snowed into their cars for about 15 hours, with a 200 carjam up in Big Bear), it's not like we're Sumatra or anything.
I think that the tsunami is forcing Southlanders to keep it in perspective just a bit.
AND, FWIW, east coasters freak out about whether in ways that the people in the snowbelt don't understand. Philly, Baltimore and DC become paralyzed too at the sign of any real weather. They have people at the grocery stores talking about people stocking up on toilet paper and milk.