Originally Posted by
boomhauer
With the advent of smart phones with the Weather Channel app I find missing the thunderstorms aren't much of a problem. I duck for cover in restaurants, laundromats or libraries. Getting off the road is important in a thunderstorm, not because of the rain and lightning, but because the odds of getting hit by a car go way up. Lack of visibility in a sudden downpour scares me to no end.
Good points, but there are places in the US and I assume other places where the roads are remote and empty enough that for those locales your points can be kind of moot. For example a good portion of the Southern Tier I recall long distances between places to duck for cover. At times there is nothing pretty much all day. Even on more northern routes there can be some pretty long empty stretches in the West and the Great Plains.