I drove from Dunedin down to Venice on Thursday March 31st in that friggin MONSOON! Crossed the sunshine skyway bridge 45 minutes after they had measured wind speeds of 88 MPH at the north tower. Get the Vette up to 60 MPH and could feel it start to hydroplane, so back down to 55. Can't see crap beyond about 60 or 70 feet, then get passed by a semi doing 70 or so, THEN I can't even see the front of the Vette. Ran out of rain at exit 220 on 75 and made it to Venice in a little over 2 hours. Thought it might clear out while we were having lunch with our friends at "The Crow's Nest" (nice place...by the way), but ran into the rain at exit 220 (again) coming north. My wife didn't want to go across the bridge again, so we stayed on 75 and got off at Fowler to cross back to Dunedin. I'm beginning to think I prefer snow to that monsoon crap. At least. with snow, you don't get soaked to the skin when you have to get out of the car for gas or bio-breaks. I told my wife that I hadn't seen rain like that since I went thru monsoon season in Vietnam. DAMN it was coming down in buckets.....
Andy
Winter's last gasp?
This should have been it though.
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