skippydiesel Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 Hi all, After 3 years of drought we have received just about three years of rain (460mm & rising) over 5 days. I live in an area with quite a few steep climbs/descents (roads) and some quite interesting bends. As I say it's been 3 years since any decent rain, so I guess if I am feeling at all charitable (not) I might try & excuse the behavior of fellow motorists somehow being presented with a novel (ha!) situation, who seem to believe that when water is "sheeting" down a slope like a river, there is no need slow down (from the posted 100 kph) or take any sort of precautionary action (may be stay in the left lane) - at last count we have had about four vehicle accidents, in the our immediate area, over 4 days and we are lucky that there have not been very many more - all due to loss of control on grades with a lot of water running down them. I wouldn't mind so much if they were just endangering themselves but what of the "collateral damage"?? The rain has just started to fall again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 We have a surprising inability to understand the extra risks of bad weather. Remember the story about Keating and the Polish presidente... smart guys all I guess, but unable to see that bad weather made flying unsafe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 We have a limitless ability to demonstrate our stupidity. One could say we are quite clever at it. . Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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