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Published: Feb. 18, 2019, 11:37 p.m.

There’s nothing as effective as a bit of rain here in the Las Vegas area to send cars spinning, skidding and slipping all over the road. rain can bring devastation to the roads and highways in Las Vegas. Just the other day, my brother Jesse and I welded a motor mount back to the frame of a Toyota pickup that had been torn while spinning out of control on a wet road hitting first a curb then a sidewalk, then a sign.

Meanwhile, on the freeways in Oregon (where we grew up) it’s nothing to see traffic flowing at 65mph with windshield wipers on full blast in the rain while the spray raised by trucks and other cars makes visibility very bad sometimes even...