Friends,
Yesterday’s monsoonal downpour highlighted (grim, gray, cloud-covered light. – ed Nice flourish.) a couple observations that should’ve been obvious.
The first was that if it rains hard enough, there will be rain inside the car as well as out. I turned on the windshield wipers as high as they would go until I realized that rain was coming in nearly horizontally from the side window. The second is that my daily commute is profoundly dangerous and was made more so by the mudslides and the grapefruit-sized rocks in the roadway. My traveling companions and I beat the CalTrans workers and their front-end loaders to the worst spots yesterday. Their trucks rolled over the mud floes like just another ’73 Matador in the Monster Truck Jam of life. My Miniature Racecar™ flew over the jump (!) in a terrible Japanese translation of The Dukes of Hazard.
A little polishing compound and that front spoiler will be good as new…
– bob