Driving in the Rain Forest (4 Comments)
The kids and I took a quick trip to visit The Grandparents this week. They live in the Rain Forest. Not really, but it sure seems that way. At the house, Dad has recorded monthly rain falls equal to what we get here in a YEAR! And it doesn’t just come down and then be over with- it drips, dribbles and mists all the time. This makes driving very busy and something like this:
Look at rain drops on the windshield.
Decide there isn’t enough speed to blow the drops off and turn wipers on intermittent.
Intermittent is too fast. Turn off wipers.
Look at rain drops.
Turn wipers on intermittent.
Turn wipers on first regular setting.
Turn wipers off.
Put on sunglasses.
Turn wipers on intermittent.
Take off sunglasses.
Turn off wipers.
Look at rain drops.
Sigh loudly. Do it all again.
It does get old doesn’t it? Automatic rain sensing wipers would be very nice to have.
But at least over here you don’t have to worry about tumble weeds attacking your car! 🙂
Comment by Eric — April 12, 2008 @ 11:45 pm
I had to avoid a Rabid Tumbleweed who was out to get me on the freeway on the way home. Those are fairly few and far between though.
Comment by JustMe — April 13, 2008 @ 2:56 pm
why have i stopped getting notifications of new posts?
and i thought the weather was crazy on this side of the mountain the day i moved in. on each successive trip out of the building, the weather was doing something else: raining, snowing, sunny, sleeting… just ask Arat.
Comment by KimberlyD — April 14, 2008 @ 10:26 pm
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