{"id":3551,"date":"2012-03-16T09:47:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T16:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=3551"},"modified":"2012-03-16T09:47:42","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T16:47:42","slug":"toad-strangler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/toad-strangler\/","title":{"rendered":"Toad-strangler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spokanites are pretty good with ice and snow.<br \/>\nYesterday, however, we had one of those Oklahoma toad-stranglers, aka, a tropical style rain, greys out the distance, comes down hard, and fills streets to the curbs because it&#8217;s too much for the drains to handle. We live on a 30 mph arterial on which speeding is not too unusual.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, no slow-down&#8212;even delivery vans and box trucks were running into one of the really good puddles, about 10 cars long, at about 40, in a downpour that&#8217;s going to blind them for significant moments, as their windshield wipers can&#8217;t keep up at that speed. Sedans, yep. This is, oddly enough, at the top of a winding mile long hill. I wouldn&#8217;t give much for their brakes when they reach the stoplight at the bottom. They were raising rooster tails two and three times the height of a sedan roof.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d think the &#8216;unusual&#8217; would signal people to be cautious. Nope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spokanites are pretty good with ice and snow. Yesterday, however, we had one of those Oklahoma toad-stranglers, aka, a tropical style rain, greys out the distance, comes down hard, and fills streets to the curbs because it&#8217;s too much for the drains to handle. We live on a 30 mph arterial on which speeding is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}