Weather reports have been saying that it would snow hard at Tahoe this evening, and we had concerns that we might get snowed in on our way back. Turns out they were about 9 hours ahead of schedule -- I drove home from M's in pouring rain with parts of the highways flooded. My car's ASR light (primitive traction control) came on 7 times during the 45 minutes, but everything was fine (and in control). Some Californians were barely crawling on the highway; poor people don't know how to handle it.

On another note, I had practice putting tire cables on an SUV this morning at 7am, and taking them off at 5pm. Good fun. Funny, though, that my first such experience was after I moved from Canada to California.