The worst possible place to be with a 911 is...
 

...STRANDED. Oh, don't worry; the car is fine and so am I. I just can't go anywhere because of the rain. As of now, 8:01 PST, I am STILL at work, waiting for the torrential downpours to abate, and so far, no luck. I should have left two hours ago, but NOOOO! It was pouring then!

I'm tired, hungry, and really freakin' sick of this damned rain. The online traffic reports show so many RED streets and freeways, my monitor looks like it needs sutures, and half my route is flooded to boot.

What does this tell me - yeah - L.A. sucks in the rainy season - particularly when one is led to believe the forecast isn't all that bad. Well, I can't wait any longer - looks like it's bite the bullet time.

By the way: these cars do float, don't they? :D

Nope...consider this scene, and I wasn't even stranded...1969. As promised, I was meeting a buddy getting out of the Army. I had quite a celebration planned. Dumbass me, I had no idea where the Oakland (California) Army terminal was. Oh well, it all worked out okay. But I think I'd have felt safer driving an APC. :rolleyes:

Did you make it?

No disrespect but LA has more than rain issues...

Dunno if you meant dd or me...yeah I made it...but I quickly figured out that if cops were afraid to patrol there, I sure as hell wasn't going to stop at red lights...

Rain/flooded roads driving? A simple tip from an Orygun guy...if the road has water washing over it, and you can't see the painted center lines? Don't do it unless being washed into a ditch is your bag...

dd74 - You would have my sympathy, except that's an everyday story in Seattle in the "Wet Season" (Oct/May)......Not that we're gloating, but we've had clear, sunny skies for weeks....Never driven my P-car more in the winter than this year.......There's only one cure.....MOVE TO SUNNY LAKE CLE ELUM!!!!!!!!

Not right at this moment it doesn't. I'm serious and so's the weather. Gangbangers are all inside tonight. You could probably walk the city anywhere with a sachel of diamonds.

The infrastructure is not built for this rain. There will be more hillslides and road damage. Seatle has had it's rain for all along and it's natural to the region. Here, that's not the case. We're having a tough time and there's little money in the state coffers to fix things.

Everyone is frustrated only because it's not part of the normal pattern. David has every reason to be concerned. We're all concerned. Another month of this and I'll have to close my business. As it is, I'm 75% down in sales. Living on 1/4th of the gross is not possible. I'm not the only one.

Don't make light of this. :mad:

Good to hear you got home safely. It rained so much her in the Shingle Springs, CA area today that I thought we would float away! And we live on top of a foothill to boot!

A scary time I have had driving:

Drove our 500 HP Cobra replica with dot 3 race tires on it to work a few years ago. Forecast said sunny for the bay area. Went to drive home and it was lightly raining. Called my husband to find out it was pouring and hailing at our house. I had to drive through it one way or another because it was headed from my home towards work. No place to put the Cobra until it passed. The 100% convertible either got driven in the rain or sat and filled up with water at work. I drove home white knuckled and acting like there was an egg under the accelerator. With 500 supercharged HP and race tires on the car I was really, really cautious. I made it home and was very thankful! Other drivers were looking at me like I was a mad woman.

Man, it was sunny and shirt sleeves here in Seattle today... :)

That really sucks! But that is by far not the worst place, at least it is rain! Rhode Island has gotten at least 5 snow storms a month from November until now, the temp's have not gotten much over freezing since October and yup more snow coming tomorrow night :mad:!!! Snow+salt+old911=No fun

It never rains in California.

I made it. Zeke's right: all the baddies were inside, keeping dry. Even the transexuals took the night off their john lookouts on Santa Monica blvd. Clear sailing all the way, except for the flooded streets. I just prayed all the way to the great P-car god, Hans Stuck, and he showed me the way.

Now I'm watching the cute channel 9 weather girl tell me of the perils I drove myself through. ;)

http://images.viacomlocalnetworks.co...e_275201448/lg

More rain to come Thursday. I think I'll leave the 911 at home. SmileWavy

About that weather girl...

She's a bit, uh, er, top heavy, eh?

"sachel of diamonds". LOL.

But Milt's right. It's bad here. This morning I saw two cars smashed in the ditch on 101. (I drove the truck...the 911 took a day off.)
On the way home, just south of Gaviota tunnel I was in a huge traffic jam (rare there) - then after crawling thru the tunnel I realized two cars had gone off the hwy into a roaring muddy creek between the north and southbound lanes. Wetsuit rescue workers retrieving bodies. Not good.

excuse my ignorance but how bad has your rain been? i mean, we see rain all the time (wouldn't be england without $hit loads of rain!) but its no big deal. is the problem with your rain that its affecting business because no ones going out ? or is it like everything else in the states i.e. big rain that makes you bleed or something?
P.S. Zeke, don't take this post the wrong way, im not making light of it, im just in the dark as to how it can be affecting you so bad

Andy


Andy

I've lived in CA for probably 35 years and this is the worst rain season that I can recall. It has destroyed highways (some requiring a year before they open again) and some casualties.
I've lived in UK-like weather (Seattle?) and the ground is used to it. (love visiting UK btw!)
Here, the dry earth erupts into mudballs with this el nino weather. Dry creeks become raging death traps to some.

this is a "100 year rain" season...and to date the second rainiest season ever (or we might be at number one...not sure). The problem is we've had steady heavy rain for extended periods. As stated above, the infrastructure in SoCal is not designed for this as we are essentially a desert. Homes have been built with that in mind, as has all of the drainage, sewer systems, etc, not to mention the economy.

Today I was really glad to be in the Subaru. That car rocks in the wet. I'm glad I didn't have to try the RA-1s in these conditions...

Andy - in the UK - how bad has it been? Bad enough so that if you lived in the Hollywood Hills, you'd fear your house falling off the mountainside you paid $2 million for.

RA-1s, Todd? Well, aren't we becoming the little Speed Racer! :D

worst yet...in 1983
 

1966 912 coupe driving through Canada to Alaska. I had to carry fuel in plastic containers stored in the car because the fuel stops where always 100 miles apart.

Then, it got so cold at night (-12 degrees) that I had to take my cars battery into a hotel room so that it was kept warm and still had a charge for the AM start.

Way before GPS and Cell Phones. No problem, Shawn. :cool:

edit: Oh, and that was/still is a three day trip.

I am sorry, that your Porsche got wet!

I just got back from vacation so of course I had to drive the 911. Yup, lots of rain but I just drove through it with the wipers on. The only bad part was unlocking the front door of the house. I keep promising myself that I will get the rain gutters installed...

Oh, and A032Rs work great in the rain. :)

Wayne

It could be worse...You could be at work handling a double murder with 3 other gunshot victims. It is all relative...

David

Yeah could be worst

Could be driving a Humvee in the desert of IRAQ, next to an insurgent in a car full of explosive.

i had a burst gas tank when i just bought it... warning light came up , 4 miles from the fuel station , just a long bridge to cross...

i cross it , and run out of gas , right in the middle
no hard shoulder...
and traffic is buzzing at 120 km/h+

i jumped out , and push/ran the car off the bridge ( it's a mile long so i ran 800 meter pushing it) , mortal fear and bad shape... almost got a heart attack at age 27

Yeap... When I first bought my 911, the gas light kept flickering at the 1/4 tank full. It would oscillate between empty and 1/4. I was led to believe that I still had plent juice left but at a stop light. BAM. Stopped. No gas.

I hate to say this but I used the starter to get me to a gas station about 50 yards away. I now fill her back up when it shows a 1/4 left.

No matter where you live, as Milt says, if the odd/unusual weather hits, people change their habits for a while. In Victoria, if it snows, the place practically shuts down. Here on the east coast, snow doesn't bother us unless its close to a foot or more with drifting (or heavy, wet stuff which can drag down power lines). I was messaging a friend in Alabama this morning who was keeping an eye out for tornados. If you are doing renovations, its hard to keep hold of a sheet of 4x8 as you're being carried off to Oz. As long as the heavy rains, which eat away at infrastructure, keep up in CA, people aren't gonna call up guys like Milt to upgrade their windows. Its not a priority until things get back to "normal" and that, of course depends upon where you are.
Milt: It may be time to get into super-saturated soil stabilization. Good luck.
Les

Grass is always greener.......yadda, yadda....

Data point.....Buffalo, NY, two years ago or so....massive LES ( Lake-effect-snowstorm).....

Left work to get home by car......

....got home......

17 hours later !!!!!! ........

quit yer gripen !! .....:)

Wil

Tell me good people of California... Clearly there is not enough data to do anything more than speculate, but, has your weather been unusual enough to make you wonder about, do I dare say? Climate change? LA is or is supposed to be in the desert, correct?
How many of the warmest years on record were in the last 10 years?
An earthquake with all that super saturated soil would make for an interesting day.

MISSISSIPPI

I hate you guys....she left WSVN 7 here in Miami for LA

She used to me my weather girl

:D

Definitely bass ackwards weather this winter...up here in Oregon, drought predicted, with a very dangerous fire season. I assume the same for Washington? So guys, if it's possible, send a couple of inches of liquid sunshine up our way, will ya? Normal rainfall here is a few feet per winter...I doubt we've had half that.

I was temporarily blinded by the sun again today...lets see, that make it 94 days in a row now...;)

We're going to pay for it though. Fire season will be a b*tch this year.

It's getting to be hail and tornado season here in Tennessee. You don't want your 911 out in golf ball size hail.

Driving a 911 with 1" of snow with R-compound tires

It has been an odd year up here, hasn't it? This winter, I feel like I never moved away from Monterey. Now if I could just afford to move back... ;)

I was reading yesterday that city officials in Seattle are trying to figure out what the hell they're going to do about the lack of rain they've had in the PACNW! They're spending money to have researchers decifer if the past few years are an indication of a permanent weather shift... Along with the research they are advising residence to conserve water, use barrel reservoirs for their outdoor needs, and design water retaining gardens... Seattle?!? :confused:

all i can say is i left a sunny washington for a cold and rainy arizona and then i took my spring break to a wet california...

isnt that assbackwords

Yep...and I just finished installing a sprinkler system...just in time for city official to tell me I can't use it.

Let's just hope for less hurricanes this year in Florida. You guys can keep the rain for just a little longer...

Worst place to be in a 911 ?

Driving up to your wife's divorce attorney's office!

I used to go to school in Pasadena during 1980-81. Was driving a 914-2.0L on the Pasadena freeway and the sky just opened up. Rained so hard that I had to stop the car and crawl at 5 mph since visibility was nil. Still it wasn't as bad as when I was driving to NJ in same car and hydroplaned after spinning 720 degrees off the highway outside of Memphis TN in a rain drenched day, into a ditch next to the road. People were very friendly and concern enough to stop and see if I was OK. I was lucky to be fine and the car was wedge between 2 small trees. The next day I was able to limp home (1200 miles away!) after the repairs made because the CHT sensor was bad and a cheap quick fix (splicing in a 3Kohm resistor to permit the engine to run). But that's another story including meeting up with ripoff artists on the east coast getting the bent suspension pieces sorted out.

I'm looking out my window...at the snow. 3 to 8 tonite.....let's spin the wheel again......