KFI a.m. 640. You're listening to the John Cobalt podcast on the Iheart Radio app.

It is the John Cobalt show. John has the day off. Mark Thompson's sitting in just for a few hours.

It's been a wild night. I know that I kept talking about this storm as a mild storm, weak storm.

But if you were out traveling last night, it was anything but, I mean,

what it was, and I understand why they say it was weak, because there wasn't any real heavy

precipitation. It was generally lighter, but it was unrelenting. I mean, it just continued. And

I drove back from Pasadena last night. It was about 11 o'clock.

There were massive pools of water everywhere all over the freeways, surface streets. I mean,

there were a bunch of cars pulled over to the side of the road. It was very serious.

The car I was driving is an electric car, you know, so they have this regenerative braking thing.

And I guess when the brakes get wet, it doesn't regenerate anymore.

So it tells you that constantly. Like, if that was

supposed to be the most important thing that I was thinking about at that moment, I was going to

constantly be reminded that we're not regenerating. The brakes are not regenerating.

It's like, guys, I got it. You don't have to send off like a, the, the

dashboard lit up as though it was the space shuttle or something. And then it told me, by the way,

also your ABS system, you know, the other braking system is a fact. So that's how much water

was in the brakes. It was constantly bonging and binging,

and then the lights are going off constantly. I mentioned this because in morning weather reports,

they were kind of talking about it like it was a weak storm. And meanwhile, I was white knuckling back from Pasadena

all the way back over to Studio City, which shouldn't be a particularly, you know, tough route.

But as I say, there were major bits of pooling across the freeways.

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