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Storm, Atmospheric river, latest update

Anything with weight over the drive wheels is a good thing, but tires are by far the biggest player in the winter traction game. If someone hasn't experienced blizzak's or equivalent on snow or ice, they're missing out. Without suggesting hyperbole magic impossible physics things, they're pretty fantastic. Mud and snow ratings have no meaning after using them.
 
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OUCH!!! FLOOD WARNING for San Francisco called Right now :laughing :thumbup

yeah it's a downpour but they're over reacting.
that said I hear the Fire Dept sirens being busy going around in town, too!

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tzrider said:
Particularly not one with a 40/60 F/R weight bias. :laughing
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those cars also perform kinda unexpectedly when they fishtail when you brake... but you say "this in a car with AWD"! :laughing

GAJ said:
Weren't Beetles supposed to be pretty good in the snow?
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I suspect it was probably due to lower power (can't spinout) and thinner tires (displaces snow) AND higher ground clearance.
As for the story above, "4 inches of snow"? And a car that probably has less than 4" of clearance?!?!?! dang. something is sideways here
 
Well, parts of the Mission tend to flood, happens when you build over a creek / floodplain.
 
I can see it flooding somewhere because the rain volume for such a short period of time is intense but then poof it's over.
 
GAJ said:
I've experienced that.

Once, crawling along I made out "shapes" in the fog on a rural road through a farm.

Black cows; dozens of them in the road.

Thank goodness I was barely moving.
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In the mid-'60s we were crossing the Yorkshire Moors on the way to St. Helens or Wigan, I don't remember which. The fog was so thick that my dad, after seeing a signpost, had to get out and get his noggin closer to the actual sign in order to read it.

I drove over the Moors about 10 years ago to Whitby. It was fine until we got to Whitby, which was totally fogged in. My sister in law was disappointed she couldn't see anything. I bought her a postcard....:teeth
 
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Looks like a break in the weather until Monday, and at that point I'm pretty sure it's no longer an atmospheric river, just some plain old rain.
 
I just purchased some corrugated panels to extend the sides of my patio's roof, so it covers the entirety of the patio itself. For some reason the current iteration leaves a couple or three feet exposed on both sides.
I'm saying that to assure you once I install them the rain will stop for the season.
 
mean dad said:
I just purchased some corrugated panels to extend the sides of my patio's roof, so it covers the entirety of the patio itself. For some reason the current iteration leaves a couple or three feet exposed on both sides.
I'm saying that to assure you once I install them the rain will stop for the season.
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Thank you for your service.
 
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