LA rain tip: you don't have to drive like it's snowing

It's raining now for the first time in five months here. Just a drizzle...but just enough to snarl traffic during rush hour which is reaching one of it's peaks at this moment. People out here tend to interpret rain like most of us from the Northeast interpret snow:

- OH MY GOD!!! Let's drive really, really slow so we don't skid off the road!
- Are the rain plows coming soon?!
- I have to get to Whole Foods and stock up on food and toilet paper!
- Gee, I sure hope we don't all wash away!

Strange, but true.