California drivers don’t know how to drive in rainy conditions, period.
God help us all if Climate Change causes us to receive snow every winter. :eek:
We do get snow every winter. We keep it in the mountains where it belongs.
Florida is the worst! If two whole days go by without the rush hour showers, then it takes 2-3 times as long to get home, when it does rain.
Before moving to San Diego about 25 years ago I lived in the Bay Area. In ten years up there I never heard much on this subject. In SD, however, it’s just the opposite. Come the rains, and based upon the news coverage, you’d think the freeways were covered with black ice. Bunch of rookie drivers out here. Love to take 'em to Chicago in January.
I just heard on the radio that there are six accidents on local freeways. Two are four car pile-ups, one is a three car and the other three are just two cars.
I see way too many idiots who think they are race car drivers and that rain makes the road stickier. Speeding and weaving in and out of traffic like the other cars don’t exist. On the way home from work last night it was lightly raining and this idiot in a BMW merged onto the freeway behind me and decided I wasn’t going fast enough because the speed limit is too slow and laws don’t apply to him so he changed lanes and then changed back right in front of me. Then he decided the car now in front of him was going too slow so he changed lanes again and then right back in fron of that guy. Then he did it again to the next car. Then after a few minutes he finally wisened up and moved two lanes over to the fast lane and then zoomed out of sight.
I still have my snow shovels from when I lived in New Jersey, so I’m set. It would be great - so many idiots would wreck their cars that traffic would be good for months afterwards.
What is this I don’t even…
There were two big-rig pile-ups in Pasadena this week, exact same location, 24 hours apart. Luckily, no one was severely hurt.
And this wasn’t even the first rain of the season – just the first rain in a month or so.
Brainfart. I meant less. Self-edited in the middle of the post and missed that.
Not that I’m aware of, and I deal with highway safety issues in California. Our pavement designs are nothing special, and if there were structural issues with our designs not performing well when wet, we’d know about it. It’s not like we’ve never skid tested our pavements before.
What I’ve noticed in my travels is California drivers are aggressive and drive fast. Combined with the weather factors mentioned above, it’s a bad combination.
When I was a motorcyclist, the word was to park the bike when it began to rain. Wait until it had rained for 30 minutes, then proceed. Apparently it is safer after the road has been douched.