Morning Tony, Sfish, BYS, presumably Daves and Dean.
Rain again in Los Angeles today. It's starting to feel like the Pacific Northwest!
Flooding affecting you?
Nah. Haven't seen or heard of any where we are. I'm up in Glendale, which is pretty high, and downtown. It's good to see it keep coming, but it lengthens my commute as I usually ride my motorcycle downtown when dry and get to bypass some traffic (splitting lanes is legal here in CA). 
Spending a fair amount of time in CA, see plenty of splitting, and it scares the hell out of me to just watch.
I hear ya. Some folks really are quite reckless. A lot of people zip around cars as if they are stationary objects that won't make unpredictable sudden movements.
If done "correctly," in appropriate speeds of traffic with sufficient reaction time and zone-of-danger avoidance, I'm an advocate.
(Well isn't that a lot of fancy words to make it seem like I know what I'm talking about!?) 
What has you in CA, Dave?
That's exactly my point, there can be no zone-of-danger avoidance possible. I never worry about what I'm doing on the bike, but worry a lot about my surroundings.
Agreed. There is never complete zone-of-danger avoidance. My goal is to watch 360, anticipate, and leave reaction time, whether splitting or not. It's never perfect, though. And I do use speed sometimes to get out of clusters of chaos on the freeways. Traffic often tends to congregate in packs, some more chaotic than others due to one or two jackwagons.
You ride? What have you got?
