James "JT" Taylor is a NC local from Chapel Hill and I couldn't help but think about him and his music on the 3.5 hour drive home from Rodanthe to Youngsville. Just a couple of months ago North Carolina was in the midst of the worst drought on record. Only two months ago we were driving home and it seemed 1/2 the Eastern part of the state was on fire. Today it seemed 1/2 the Eastern part of the state was under water.
It rained most of the drive home but somewhere around Princeville it really opened up and poured. It rained so much that people were stopping under the overpasses! No, it wasn't hailing and there was no threat of tornado but they stopped anyway. It seemed people developed a fear of airborne water pulled by gravity to the ground. Totally bizarre! At one point I had to put the A-Hole hat on and honk my horn so I could get through a "roadblock" under an overpass that spanned my two West-bound lanes and both shoulders! People! It's just rain!
Yes, I reduced my speed by about 15 mph but I still drove safely through the RAIN. Ugh. I have had the displeasure of witnessing some very stupid moves on our nation's highways and byways but bringing all traffic to a complete stop ranked as the new #1. Again, no tornado. No hail. No nothing except for heavy rain.
Had these people seen a bad monsoon a-la the Tucson 1986 (or was it '85?) variety I can only wonder what they would have done with themselves.
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'Cept in Tucson, people don't know how to drive in the rain!...
Actually, in Tucson, people just don't know how to drive. Period.
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