Snaggletooth
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Class 3? Or mabey 4?
Don't MoveTo Florida
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Usually 3.
Snaggletooth
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Oh, ok, so Mickeys foldeng boate coude prolley handelle it?
Grande Mastere Dreade
Snag's spellchecker
when i first moved to dallas, after have been in the NE for awhile, I found myself alone on LBJ hwy after it had been snowing for hours.. wondered where everybody was... so i proceeded to do slides / doughnuts / whatever, out in the middle of the hwy in a '76 Charger which was about 30' long.. fun times..
Grande Mastere Dreade
Snag's spellchecker
yeah texans are shit on the roads, i was on my way to work while snowing, i'm on 35 doing a reasonable 30mph as the roads were slippery when a woman in a ram 1500 pickup truck doing 60 slammed into me... destroyed the rear end on my '96 integra gsr , moron..
people talking about parking lots, we had an insurance company that had about 150 acre parking lot that we would go to when it snowed and was empty... that's where you learned to drive in the snow.. drove from NJ to SC in a blizzard for 15 hours, no problem, everyone else, ha...
Fah Kiew Tu
Curmudgeon, First Rank
Not much snow in Australia - well, where sensible people live anyway - but I basically learned to drive on dirt & gravel roads and offroad on multi-thousand acre sheep/cattle properties. Driving on clay roads after rain was like driving on ball bearings.
A few years back we crossed the Victorian Alps (typical exaggeration, low hills more like) while it was snowing. Went through a short tunnel, came out the other side and hit a patch of black ice. No time to think, just a 'FUCK!!!', steer into the skid and hope to get control back before running out of road. Which I did, THEN and ONLY THEN got out and engaged the 4WD.
And slowed down.
I used to take my company car all sorts of places in Arizona that my fellow workers said were 4WD trails only. Never scratched it or got stuck.
FKT
Snaggletooth
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I thick I wase in that blizzarde on 95 withe you Grande Mastere Donutte.......
Yup. First snow storm after I got my license, went to a beach parking lot were the worst thing I could do was end up in the sand. Skidded all over the place until I knew what it took to make my car skid and could reflexively get it back under control. Other than that sort of fun, hated driving in the snow. Too many idiots to avoid. Now it's just idiots driving in the rain I deal with.
Blue Crab
benthivore
"The best car for offroad? A rental car." PJ O'Rourke
Not for nothing
Super Anarchist
So, at the south end of Hutchinsion a very rich Neighbor, Millions+ homes, golf course and marina.
There is one road going the Se Macarthur Blvd, it's always flooded out, (like Mother Nature wants an Inlet there. So https://www.wptv.com/news/treasure-...s-to-protect-beaches-roads-from-future-storms,
Protect the beaches BULL SHIT
Another Video
There is one road going the Se Macarthur Blvd, it's always flooded out, (like Mother Nature wants an Inlet there. So https://www.wptv.com/news/treasure-...s-to-protect-beaches-roads-from-future-storms,
Protect the beaches BULL SHIT
Another Video
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SloopJonB
Super Anarchist
Them that's got shall get
Them that's not shall lose
Driving back in 2007, S2 7.9 behind a suburban. Ohio Counties were closed due to snow emergencies but I was getting to the St. Pete nood regatta come hell or high water.
Went under a bridge. It was a solid sheet of ice. The trailer came around. At the point where the tailor was at a nearly perfect 90 degrees from the car, the ice ended. It snapped that trailer back around behind me so hard that it ripped the rear axle leaf springs off the frame. Managed to get it off the freeway by tieing ropes to the axle and using the Genoa winches to winch the axle hard against the frame.
A nice trailer company let us park it in their lot for a week while we waited for new springs to ship. Happened in Lima Ohio.
billy backstay
Backstay, never bought a suit, never went to Vegas
It's the Golden Rule - Those with the most gold will make all the rules. Same as it ever was, and ever shall be.
(Let the rest of them eat cake!)
Jules
Super Anarchist
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The wealthy who decided living by the water was paradise are now realizing why it used to be only the poor who lived there. Back then, politicians didn't care about coastal dwellers losing their homes cuz they were poor. But now that it's the rich that it's happening to...
Not for nothing
Super Anarchist
let the taxpayer rebuild them, again, again, again, again again, again, again, again again, again, again, again, again, again, again, again
Steam Flyer
Sophisticated Yet Humble
The problem is that the wrong people are wealthy these days. It used to be polite smart people (with the correct parents) were wealthy, and they had part-time homes near yachting centers so they didn't have to travel as far to go yachting. Of course they also had country estates so they enjoy being close to their horsies, much of the rest of their copious free time.
Nowadays the wealthy are greedy stupid assholes who have won a couple of rounds of Death-Money-Match 2000 and want the biggest most gaudy house possible for the cheapest possible price, and they put these houses in vulnerable places because that's where land is cheap. And of course, the more prosperous among the middle class try to emulate them.
Me, I am trying to emulate the earlier generation except for the horse thing. I live near my boat so I can work on it more.
SloopJonB
Super Anarchist
Terms like Nouveau Riche, Wretched Excess, Conspicuous Consumption etc. were never so apropos as they currently are among far too many wealthy people.
"More" and "Bigger" seem to be the only standards any more.
They never heard of elegance, taste, moderation or understatement.
We have a pair of them up the street - retired couple tore down a 3500' mid-century house and built a 6000' or more pseudo Craftsman - being sure to let the neighbours know they were "downsizing".
"More" and "Bigger" seem to be the only standards any more.
They never heard of elegance, taste, moderation or understatement.
We have a pair of them up the street - retired couple tore down a 3500' mid-century house and built a 6000' or more pseudo Craftsman - being sure to let the neighbours know they were "downsizing".
