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When It Rains

Sittin' here watching the morning program and Adam Gerhke is showing all the accidents on the roads, and it makes me wonder, how is it that all these pollution machine drivers forget, from one rain incident to another, that the physics of driving change on wet roads? How long does one have to live here in Seattle, where it rains A LOT, before one remembers that, a) just because one is driving an SUV that the laws of physics still apply to them? b) that they will not have instant traction, for starting or stopping, like they do on dry roads? How long!?

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