Thanks Gordon, but I'm probably gonna' pass. If I committed to it, It would be pretty much guaranteed to rain the entire weekend. Who knows? If I participated, the earth might open up and swallow the entire get-together.
We just got into Savannah - we're staying in an AirBnB in the historic district a couple of blocks from Forsyth Park, a sweet suite in a converted mansion on Jones St. We had a similar 1850-ish place in Charleston, but I already like this place considerably better than anything I saw in Chuck-Town, South Cackalacky, which was almost a total bust for us.
The weather in the (un)Holy City was abysmal. I've always thought Lane was exaggerating with his disgust for the heat/humidity - but it's freaking October, and the windows on every building were impossible to see through, due to the condensation buildup on the panes. We took a $50 bus tour and couldn't see a thing because the windows were steamed up on the outside of the bus. The entire downtown smells like rotting wood and mildew and/or burning sulfur. Perhaps the early settlers stopped and set up shop there, not wanting to go further because they (rightly?) suspected they were at the last weigh-station before descending into the underworld. The only thing missing was a peat bog, but maybe I just missed it.
It rained non-stop for the 3 days we tried to learn to love it. Every time we planned an activity, the sky opened up to move from a steady shower to a biblical punishment spec thunderstorm. To add insult to injury, the smoke detector in our room was chirped steadily every morning we were there from 6:30 until about 10:00. A replacement battery did nothing, I think it acted out of spite against our being there. A good time was had by all.
We gave up and loaded damp luggage in a steady rain into a car that smelled like a wet dog and drove the 2 hrs from there to Savannah in a thunderstorm this afternoon. If the car had broken down on the road, I might have been tempted to set it ablaze, had I not been aware that a fire would be an impossibility in these conditions.
I loved my car last weekend up in the Smoky Mountains. Down here? I'm (again) giving @Lane Anderson credit for having stuck it out with a Speedster for so long in an environment so inhospitable to having one. I'm not sure I would have.
My car is sealed considerably better than a regular speedster (with the roll up windows and all), but is still quite porous in the usual places. The worst of speedster driving in the rain down here is the fog on the windshield, which can only be alleviated by rolling the windows down (which pretty much negates the advantage of having them). I've driven through heavy thunderstorms in my car in the past, but always running through them, darting though a gap and across a squall line sweeping the plains. I've never had to decide between spraying down the inside of the car with God's own pressure washer and trying to drive (blind) from inside the devil's sealed sauna for an entire week. I would almost rather drive my car in the snow, and that's saying something.
But now we're here. The car will (blessedly) be parked until Sunday morning, which should only cost about as much as just giving it away. Some of the restaurants most highly recommended to us by friends are located within a ball's throw of the front door - one of them less than 20 ft away, so walking around is just fine. It's been raining here for 3 days, just like in Charleston - but somehow I can see through all the windows, and the city doesn't smell like it died a week ago, so there's that.
The historic district in Savannah is almost impossibly pretty. Jeanie has already fallen in love with the place.
More updates as they develop...
Emergency car parts and human body parts sometimes need help and this can help you survive a trip just about anywhere. 
