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Last night after Mrs_Misha and MorningStar's final reception, Shalome and I hit up Bar Sinister with Reprobate. It was raining, off and on, sometimes hard while we were there, but as soon as we got on the freeway to go home, it started pouring. Within two or three miles of the 5/710 interchange we passed four serious accidents. The first one we passed was very recent, and there were no emergency vehicles on location yet. There were at least three cars involved, one of which was sheared practically in half, and another was upside down in pieces. The other ones we passed were nearly as bad.

We were both a bit stunned after that, and judging by the surprisingly slow speed at which the other cars on the freeway were travelling, everyone else was, too (traffic was light, and for LA drivers to be going under 55mph in light traffic, regardless of any other conditions, was unusual). The rain was intense, and aside from a storm we once drove through in Oklahoma, I can't remember driving under worse road conditions. I was about to pull off and take surface streets (in Carson, mind you), but just then the rain let up a bit and we stopped hydroplaning through puddles, so we continued on the freeway.

As we walked into the house, it was dark. There was a flash, and I thought that Shal had flipped a light switch and that a light had burned out (she thought I did the same), but the clap, crackle, and rumble that went on for a good 10 seconds afterward indicated otherwise. It was pretty crazy for a SoCal storm. Even Shalome, who has experienced all sorts of wild weather growing up in the Midwest, said it was "really coming down" (usually, she scoffs at me when I say the weather is ugly).

Still, it wasn't as bad as the one earlier this year that dumped piles of hail in Compton and several inches in a half hour in South LA.


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