Rain

[Cameron]

How are all you Northern California CHP officers doing with all this rain? Have things been pretty miserable, or ok?

As a rule, do the sergeants/designated officers in charge of CHP area offices expect fewer citations from you all during severe weather?

[Cameron]

...... Bueller...... Bueller....... Bueller.... :cool:

[RodeoChippie]

One of the first lessons you learn at the academy is this: The first drop of rain that hits a CHP Officer is an act of God. The second is an act of stupidity.

[Mac]

One of the first lessons you learn on the road is this: Rain Sucks.

Actually, it isn't so much the rain that sucks - it's all the people who still drive as if it were sunny and 75 degrees, and subsequently create crashes that make you get out of your car in the rain to document their driving "prowess".

As far as tickets go.....it's real difficult to write tickets in the rain, ink doesn't flow well onto soaked paper. Sitting inside your car alongside a busy freeway to write tickets is an invitation to disaster. Invariably though, there are a few whose acts are so outrageously deserving of a ticket that I'll make the effort to stop them in some location where I can safely write a cite.....and I'll 100% guarantee that if it's a violation egregious enough for me to make a stop in the rain, there is no such thing as a verbal warning.

[Your Mentor]

We get so much rain and snow for so long that you just accept as part of the beat. I was stationed on the Oregon coast in the Coast Guard and you couldn't use a storm, rain, or snow as an excuse not to work. Up here, they (meaning the one supervisor we have) doesn't consider incliment weather when looking at activity. After six years in Death Valley, I'll take the rain and cold over the heat any day. I love Death Valley but once you leave you realize how miserable the heat was. Anyway, the rain is good for No. Cal. It's all farming and forestry up here.

[Chipper]

Mentor, where in Oregon were you stationed?

[Your Mentor]

USCG Station Tillamook Bay: (2) 44' motor life boats, a 36' surf rescue boat, and rigid hull inflatable. All fun as far as I was concerned. I also surfed at Falcon Cove in my off duty time.

[Chipper]

USCG Station Tillamook Bay: (2) 44' motor life boats, a 36' surf rescue boat, and rigid hull inflatable. All fun as far as I was concerned. I also surfed at Falcon Cove in my off duty time.

Wow. I was a city police officer in Newport, just south of Tillamook for 3 years prior to joining CHP. One of the coolest things I have ever seen happened there on a cliff over the ocean. some dude got stuck on a trail, and the Coast Guard helo came in and rescued him. The freaking precision of that helo hovering next to a cliff over the ocean, just feet away from the rocks while they picked this guy up was crazy. If my memory serves, they only had helos in Coos Bay and Tillamook. They took turns patrolling the Newport area. They did have a pretty good size USCG station in Newport though.

[bcjack]

RAIN!!!! I love it and I hate it....I really don't hate the rain, just the stupid ass drivers in the rain. It just amazes me how someone can drive down the freeway at 80 mph in the rain, spin out, roll over and then be shocked and say, "I don't know what happened". Many a response ends like that...Just UNBELIEVEABLE!!!

[Chippysgt]

I was on a cruise from San Francisco to Alaska and back a couple of years ago. One of the ports of call was Astoria, Oregon and the mouth of the Columbia River. What a beautiful place that is. We went to the tower on the hill and the view from the top was awesome. Back at the waterfront there was a Maritime Museum and they had a great Coast Guard display. At the dock behind the museum was a Coast Guard ship, don't know what kind, but it looked like it was about 80-100 ft long and it had pretty good size deck guns. What impressed me most was the American flag flying from the highest mast with the POW flag flying right below it. I walked back there and hailed some of the young officers and enlisted men who were on the dock. I saluted them and told that how much I, as a veteran from that era, appreciated them flying the POW flag as I remembered men of my generation who that flag stood for.

Three Cheers for the Coast Guard, a little rain never bothers them.

[Slim]

I've been to that museum. I liked the whale harpoon heads/tips they used on the fence or gate around the outside. They had one of their smaller boats, 20-25', that could roll over and right it's self. The windows all sealed and everything. They had video of it rolling over in the surf and then righting it's self and continuing on. Very cool museum.

[makakona]

my lone chp stop was in the rain. and seriously, he DID get the wrong person, haha. oooooh... he was HOPPING MAD! he barked and hollered and made me get out of my car and sit in the back of his. he grumbled the entire time about making him stop in the rain and risking his life. he was TICKED!

i fought the ticket. and won. :smile:

i had a horrific accident several years ago, also in the rain. i was in lane 4/6 and lanes 5 and 6 were exiting. some moron in lane 5 decided he didn't want to exit and cut into my lane, clipping my right front bumper. there was standing water on the freeway, the rains were that bad. i spun out across the other lanes, hit the cement divider, spun back across the four lanes, hit a nascar racing trailer, spun back across and stopped with the wheels of my ranger just missing the guardrail, which took out half the bed of my truck. i was in total shock and immediately jumped out of the truck into the fast lane. :rolleyes: luckily traffic had all but stopped to watch me pinball.

chp rolled up and i got chewed out about driving erratically for miles, blahblahblah, and was called "little girl." he made a comment about my red car and i told him the red car had cut me off, i was in the truck. he apologized, "ma'am," and gave me a huge bear hug. total 180. the red car stopped before chp was actually on scene and the driver wanted me to get in the back of his car to get off the freeway and use his phone. he rolled as chp was talking to me. i'm still fairly shaken about driving in the rain, but at least i lived... my accident caused another accident with double fatality. :sad: chp sent me to sit at the denny's at the next offramp and told me to wait for them. they never showed because the other accident was SO bad... truley nolen volkswagen versus one of the big oil rigs. :sad: