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The day before we left on our trip, my wife took the car to our mechanic to get a slightly overdue oil change done. While he was doing that, he pointed out that we would probably want to replace the tires when we got home. That should've been a warning...or perhaps it jinxed us. The first day out, driving up through Pennsylvania, we hit some heavy rain, which slowed the pace of traffic down significantly. This was a good thing, because the car kept trying to float off the road surface, so I would've had to slow down anyway, and this way I wasn't an obstacle to traffic flow.
After spending a late evening celebrating the 25th anniversary of my high school graduation, we headed east. As we drove across the NY Thruway, we hit yet another strong storm that severly limited visiblity and forced us to slow down to stay in contact with the road. (We later heard that we had driven through a tornado warning, though it was apparently just a doppler indicated warning, without an actual tornado on the ground!)
We were hoping that was the end of the heavy storms, but two days later, we drove through another blinding storm, this time at night, as we made our way to a hotel after spending the day at Six Flags Great Escape in Glens Falls, NY. And the very next day, outside Burlington, VT, we got hit by the heaviest rain yet, leaving us almost blind at 25mph, even with the wipers on high. We eventually pulled off the road and waited that one out.
I wasn't aware that there was a monsoon season in the Northeast, but apparently we've discovered one. I understand that many of these areas had not had any measurable rain in about a month. However, I don't know that anyone is happy with rain this heavy, as much of the water will simply run off, rather than soak in. As for us, it probably would have been easier if we had changed the tires before we left!
After spending a late evening celebrating the 25th anniversary of my high school graduation, we headed east. As we drove across the NY Thruway, we hit yet another strong storm that severly limited visiblity and forced us to slow down to stay in contact with the road. (We later heard that we had driven through a tornado warning, though it was apparently just a doppler indicated warning, without an actual tornado on the ground!)
We were hoping that was the end of the heavy storms, but two days later, we drove through another blinding storm, this time at night, as we made our way to a hotel after spending the day at Six Flags Great Escape in Glens Falls, NY. And the very next day, outside Burlington, VT, we got hit by the heaviest rain yet, leaving us almost blind at 25mph, even with the wipers on high. We eventually pulled off the road and waited that one out.
I wasn't aware that there was a monsoon season in the Northeast, but apparently we've discovered one. I understand that many of these areas had not had any measurable rain in about a month. However, I don't know that anyone is happy with rain this heavy, as much of the water will simply run off, rather than soak in. As for us, it probably would have been easier if we had changed the tires before we left!
