Over the past six months, I've realized "rain" on the East coast and "rain" on the West coast represents two entirely different weather phenomena. At home, "rain" usually equates to a big Pacific storm and it will be steady all day. Here "rain" encompasses any kind of precip ranging from drizzle to light showers to steady rain to downpours...usually drizzle/showers but people need their ginormous umbrellas regardless... Anyway. I usually just ride unless it's raining hard/steadily in the morning, and then I take the train only because getting to work with long completely wet hair is a bummer and I've yet to put a hair dryer in my desk, riding home in the rain I greatly enjoy...it cuts down on the number of clueless MUP users