Wet pulls and pile ups

On the drive home I hit heavy rain during the last 10 minutes of the commute.  For some reason people in southwest Florida seem to have similar reactions to driving in heavy rain as people in the northeast do when driving in snow, they suck at it.  Without fail when we start getting heavy rain after prolonged dry spells accidents explode all over the roadways.  Less than a mile from our house there was a full size pickup laying on it’s side in a ditch.

When I got home last night I had planned to put the 99 Tacoma up on ramps to take one more peek underneath.  I want to pull the skid plate so I can find the ground point on the engine block to check it out.  I would feel better if I found it, cleaned it, and re-secured it just to make sure that there are no future flaky ground issues for the truck’s future owner.  The wet conditions postponed those plans.

It did stop raining eventually so I stepped outside to get a quick 20 pull ups in.  The chickens were milling around the bar park when I went out there, almost like they knew my intent.  Doing pull ups on a wet bar is always more challenging but I managed to hang around until I got my 20 reps in.

Today my tonneau cover is supposed to arrive for the new Tacoma.  If the installation looks simple enough I may try to get it installed before the sun sets.