^^^ I grew up in Phoenix and we had thunderstorms exclusive of any other kind. There was always thunder before any rain. My wife grew up near the coast in Socal and she seems freaked out to ever hear thunder

I had a nice ride in. On my one block of roadside, I found a nice pruning saw, which I posted about in the other thread. This block of Folsom Rd. yields almost all of my roadside finds. It's a high-traffic, high-speed artery feeding/bypassing Folsom. People blazing along SW bound are caught short by the stoplight. People coming down the hill NW on Iron Point to make the left at the T intersection are often going too fast to beat the light rail gates, or just gassing it because they are frustrated from a long wait. All parties headed west are eager or dreading to duke it out going for the onramp. So high gees are common. I don't know statistics but I wouldn't be surprised to hear there's a small accident every day. So the potential for things falling off cars and trucks is pretty high. You can see I could totally avoid this section but the Natoma Station bike trail entrance has its own challenges, going down steep to stop hard for a left turn across fast blind downhill NE bound bike traffic, while the street is straight and level.

It's going to be pretty hot at home time. But not hundreds