Henry Ford
Footballguy
UPDATE: Car is seriously messed up. May be looking at a flood insurance total loss. Great day, truly.
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Flooded in at a Costco an hour from home. AMA (1 Viewer)
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Beef Ravioli
Footballguy
From driving through high spots? Did you know/think there may have been an issue at that moment or did you figure it out after the fact?
Henry Ford
Footballguy
From sitting in the parking lot, I think. Water got pretty deep there.
Had no inkling there was an issue until today - Started it up, was fine for half the drive, and then the radiator fan kicked in and the car was trying to tear itself apart.
Beef Ravioli
Footballguy
I've heard no car can really be fixed after being flooded? Electrical problems especially.
Conanthecontrarian
Footballguy
Conanthecontrarian
Footballguy
I think instead of the mma matches a certain poster keeps suggesting, the FFA needs u and Henry to have a challenge thread! may the funnier poster prevail.ClownCausedChaos2 said:
Henry Ford
Footballguy
Man of Constant Sorrow
Footballguy
What do you mean by not funny? What do you mean, you mean the way you talk? What? Not funny how? What's not funny about?
You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it's me, I'm a little flighted up maybe, but not funny how, I mean not funny like a clown, like to not amuse me? To not make me laugh, You're here to flight'in' NOT amuse me? What do you mean not funny, not funny how? How are you not funny?
No, no, I don't know, you said it. How do I know? You said you're not funny. How the flight are you not funny, what the flight is so not funny about you? Tell me, tell me what's not funny!
Koya
Footballguy
ClownCausedChaos2
Footballguy
Henry Ford
Footballguy
Henry Ford
Footballguy
Yet strangely people seem to feel we'd match up well in such a battle. How odd.
Henry Ford
Footballguy
I should mention that depending on whether the car is totaled or not, this might actually be the best thing a friend has ever done for me. I need a new car.
Koya
Footballguy
Henry Ford
Footballguy
Car's completely paid off and bluebook is probably $5-6k. Which is probably about $3-4K more than I'd get in trade for it. So.... could be worse.
sbonomo
Footballguy
ClownCausedChaos2
Footballguy
Henry Ford
Footballguy
GroveDiesel
Footballguy
Yuck. That's what happens when public workers treat the job like a cushy entitlement instead of as public service.
Johnny Rock
Footballguy
I was surprised you didn't mention that you had water on your floor after 4x4-Tricked-Out-Jacked-Up-Truck-Guy created a tsunami in the parking lot. Hope it works out the way you want.
Doug B
Footballguy
SMH. Several heads have rolled already, and more will be coming, I bet.
I wonder if SWBNO still has 100+ employees using city SUVs as their personal vehicles? That was revealed almost three years ago, and I don't recall any real fallout.
Ditkaless Wonders
Footballguy
Why are the kayaks in the Home and Garden Section and not in sporting goods?
Henry Ford
Footballguy
They don't really have a sporting goods section. Or a home and garden section. It's just kind of a huge morass of stuff they constantly move around so you have to look for it and find other stuff you need.
Ditkaless Wonders
Footballguy
Henry Ford
Footballguy
If Dale Cooper were back as himself, would have been superior. Current season of Twin Peaks makes me so angry I need to motorboat Teri Garr.
Ditkaless Wonders
Footballguy
Where I grew up folks pride themselves on the blizzards they endured. Is it the same down there for floods and hurricanes? Do folks not so subtly brag on them being there for one storm or another?
Ditkaless Wonders
Footballguy
Teri Garr always got an additional point and a half on the ten point scale from me for her personality. I imagined her being highly participatory during coitus, funny after, and able to get one quickly back to the post for the next stakes.
Loved her energy.
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Doug B
Footballguy
Maybe not personally brag ... but, yeah, people do talk about it from time to time. Katrina, naturally, has been the benchmark hurricane since 2005 -- before that, it was Betsy (1965, direct hit on New Orleans) or Camille (1969, Mississippi Gulf Coast).
EDIT: One thing people used to brag about before Katrina was being brave enough to stay put and ride out hurricanes and tropical storms. There were many smaller storms in the years between Betsy and Katrina (yes, there is such thing as a fully-fledged hurricane that doesn't do much damage). No one evacuated. We'd get off a day or two from school if they hit once school started. People would rush out and buy non-perishable groceries in advance. We'd have our power knocked for a day or so. Sometimes minor street flooding, sometimes not. Us kids would play in the hurricane winds and/or flood waters on our suburban streets.
Since Katrina, though ... people evacuate the city much more readily. Then again, some locals are pushing back against that post-K mindset, figuring it won't ever be THAT bad in their lifetimes again.
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Beef Ravioli
Footballguy
We have noticed the practice of moving products as well, frustrating at times but probably a shark move on COSTCO's part.
SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
Henry Ford
Footballguy
Conanthecontrarian
Footballguy
I used to love seeing her on Letterman's show, he was obviously smitten with her.Ditkaless Wonders said:
