Well, quite honestly, I'd rather drive in snow than rain and a heavy downpour is no fun at all! I came home in one today from the post office, and I know those roads very well. It still sucked. I was talking on the phone with my friend but told her I'd have to call her back so that I could concentrate.
(When I got out of work today, the western sky was so dark it was frightening! I tried to find whether there was a warning our or anything, but I couldn't find anything. That's the downpour I later drove home through, once I stopped driving east and had to turn around and head west.)
BTW, look at this picture from Cleveland:
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That was a storm coming in off of Lake Erie on August 11th. (Feel free to add a caption for the person on the jet ski. I imagine it something like, "Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit!")