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White knuckle journey!
"Bridge to engine room: pucker-factor nine!"
We're having a pretty good storm, and I was driving home - in my VW bus. I don't know what the wind speeds are, but this poor beast was flat out @ 45mph. I was going over a bridge, and a gust of wind pushed me all the way from the right lane, across 2 lanes, and almost smacked me into the barrier - I missed it by inches! The wind just pushed me across the freeway like a pile of chips on a craps table. I'd love to recount what studly car-control skills I excerised, but in all honesty, I was just along for the ride. Luckily traffic was sparse, and I was able to get back over to the slow lane where I belong without much more drama. Ok, time to un-thaw and change underwear. I think I'll have to burn this pair...
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12-29-2003, 03:59 PM
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It's been pretty crazy here all day too. I've been home all day and the cable was out most of it, so I hung around here.
It's supose to be sunny tomorrow, just in time for me to return to work 
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12-29-2003, 05:21 PM
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Crikey, that must have been the same gust of wind we got over here. A woman at work was driving along a hill road and a gust of wind picked her car up, turned it around and dumped it on the other side of the road, LOL, scarry stuff.
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12-29-2003, 05:52 PM
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Yolo Causeway? Windy sucker.
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12-29-2003, 06:11 PM
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Whoa Thom, glad you're ok.
The Causeway was crazy yesterday. We were going over to Costco (our big outing for the day - are we exciting or what?) in our '91 Jeep. Highway speeds were down to 35mph. We had 55mph wind gusts and I don't think it stopped for even one minute all day. It's calmer out today, though.
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