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<blockquote data-quote="GentleGiant" data-source="post: 4178213" data-attributes="member: 11829">Oh it's definitely an LA thing, I think I made that clear.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I did experience the other type of rain, the tropical storm kind, and it DID slow the traffic down, pretty much no traffic was to be found.Driving up from Florida in late January (back in '04) a friend and I hit the backside of a tropical storm just as we got to Jacksonville.I had never seen anything like it (and haven't since)!2-3 inches of water standing in the road everywhere just from the downpour and visibility down to 20 yards tops. It was crazy and we turned around and drove out of the storm again to try circumventing it. Managed to cross over the state up there and then up through the western part of Georgia... where we ran into a massive fog instead! Crawling pace on the freeway until we managed to spot a Red Roof Inn sign by the side of the road.So, from 80 degrees (26 degrees C) in the shade in Florida to a tropical storm, then an immense fog and finally snow as we went up through Tennessee and Kentucky the next day... not exactly the kind of weather you experience on most trips through Europe.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Good thing we didn't drive the way back up we did down there, through the Carolinas, since they were covered with several inches of ice from an ice-storm.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GentleGiant, post: 4178213, member: 11829"] Oh it's definitely an LA thing, I think I made that clear. ;) I did experience the other type of rain, the tropical storm kind, and it DID slow the traffic down, pretty much no traffic was to be found. Driving up from Florida in late January (back in '04) a friend and I hit the backside of a tropical storm just as we got to Jacksonville. I had never seen anything like it (and haven't since)! 2-3 inches of water standing in the road everywhere just from the downpour and visibility down to 20 yards tops. It was crazy and we turned around and drove out of the storm again to try circumventing it. Managed to cross over the state up there and then up through the western part of Georgia... where we ran into a massive fog instead! Crawling pace on the freeway until we managed to spot a Red Roof Inn sign by the side of the road. So, from 80 degrees (26 degrees C) in the shade in Florida to a tropical storm, then an immense fog and finally snow as we went up through Tennessee and Kentucky the next day... not exactly the kind of weather you experience on most trips through Europe. :) Good thing we didn't drive the way back up we did down there, through the Carolinas, since they were covered with several inches of ice from an ice-storm. [/QUOTE]

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