LA Friday mixed with rain

And you end up with this mess.... Friday afternoon traffic is bad enough; LA turns into a parking lot from about 3pm-8pm. But when you add in some rain... LA people do NOT know how to drive in the rain. I ended up driving down the 405 to Irvine around 7:30pm and hit a relatively light stretch of traffic for about 2 miles before hitting grid lock again. With all that openness, traffic was still only flowing around 60mph. I guess people are scared of the rain? As long as there's no standing water, you can still go faster, so I zipped by them at standard LA free flowing traffic rates... until I hit traffic again.

So here's the really stupid thing. LA drivers are scared to drive at normal speeds in the rain, YET, they STILL TAILGATE. Without fail, there are tons of rear-end accidents because people tailgate and can't stop in time with the wet roads. Oh yeah, all those diamonds on the map are reported accidents.