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So hey, Storrow Drive at night in a downpour: not as much fun as you'd think.
(Storrow Drive is functionally a highway, only without things like breakdown lanes or wide turns or, you know, absence of sudden plunge into doom!! to go under an overpass, etc. Also, road surface and angling is terrible for giant puddles under local flooding conditions. But as with all repurposed New England roads, we treat it like a highway even though it lacks all the amenities of one, because we are crazy.)
I mean, it's kind of fun to drive white-knuckle at 35 MPH and watch high-end sedans blow past you in the fast lane and speculate as to their upcoming fiery doom, but beyond that: not really.
I didn't even attempt Morrissey Blvd. at night in a downpour.
(This is the road that every spring tide, i.e. every two weeks, they have to put up traffic warning signs that say WICKED HIGH TIDES because sometimes that means the street is overset with streaming water in a sheet 2 inches deep. Sometimes, in the day, they'll close the road, but I've never seen it closed at night, even when it seems like it would be a really good idea.)
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(Storrow Drive is functionally a highway, only without things like breakdown lanes or wide turns or, you know, absence of sudden plunge into doom!! to go under an overpass, etc. Also, road surface and angling is terrible for giant puddles under local flooding conditions. But as with all repurposed New England roads, we treat it like a highway even though it lacks all the amenities of one, because we are crazy.)
I mean, it's kind of fun to drive white-knuckle at 35 MPH and watch high-end sedans blow past you in the fast lane and speculate as to their upcoming fiery doom, but beyond that: not really.
I didn't even attempt Morrissey Blvd. at night in a downpour.
(This is the road that every spring tide, i.e. every two weeks, they have to put up traffic warning signs that say WICKED HIGH TIDES because sometimes that means the street is overset with streaming water in a sheet 2 inches deep. Sometimes, in the day, they'll close the road, but I've never seen it closed at night, even when it seems like it would be a really good idea.)
I have moved mostly over to Dreamwidth. Please comment there if you can.