The worst possible place to be with a 911 is...

[ruf-porsche]

Yeah could be worst

Could be driving a Humvee in the desert of IRAQ, next to an insurgent in a car full of explosive.

[svandamme]

i had a burst gas tank when i just bought it... warning light came up , 4 miles from the fuel station , just a long bridge to cross...

i cross it , and run out of gas , right in the middle
no hard shoulder...
and traffic is buzzing at 120 km/h+

i jumped out , and push/ran the car off the bridge ( it's a mile long so i ran 800 meter pushing it) , mortal fear and bad shape... almost got a heart attack at age 27

[Blanco]

Yeap... When I first bought my 911, the gas light kept flickering at the 1/4 tank full. It would oscillate between empty and 1/4. I was led to believe that I still had plent juice left but at a stop light. BAM. Stopped. No gas.

I hate to say this but I used the starter to get me to a gas station about 50 yards away. I now fill her back up when it shows a 1/4 left.

[oldE]

No matter where you live, as Milt says, if the odd/unusual weather hits, people change their habits for a while. In Victoria, if it snows, the place practically shuts down. Here on the east coast, snow doesn't bother us unless its close to a foot or more with drifting (or heavy, wet stuff which can drag down power lines). I was messaging a friend in Alabama this morning who was keeping an eye out for tornados. If you are doing renovations, its hard to keep hold of a sheet of 4x8 as you're being carried off to Oz. As long as the heavy rains, which eat away at infrastructure, keep up in CA, people aren't gonna call up guys like Milt to upgrade their windows. Its not a priority until things get back to "normal" and that, of course depends upon where you are.
Milt: It may be time to get into super-saturated soil stabilization. Good luck.
Les

[Wil Ferch]

Grass is always greener.......yadda, yadda....

Data point.....Buffalo, NY, two years ago or so....massive LES ( Lake-effect-snowstorm).....

Left work to get home by car......

....got home......

17 hours later !!!!!! ........

quit yer gripen !! .....

Wil

[Mike Kast]

Tell me good people of California... Clearly there is not enough data to do anything more than speculate, but, has your weather been unusual enough to make you wonder about, do I dare say? Climate change? LA is or is supposed to be in the desert, correct?
How many of the warmest years on record were in the last 10 years?
An earthquake with all that super saturated soil would make for an interesting day.

[targa911S]

MISSISSIPPI

[Justin R]

Originally posted by dd74
I made it. Zeke's right: all the baddies were inside, keeping dry. Even the transexuals took the night off their john lookouts on Santa Monica blvd. Clear sailing all the way, except for the flooded streets. I just prayed all the way to the great P-car god, Hans Stuck, and he showed me the way.

Now I'm watching the cute channel 9 weather girl tell me of the perils I drove myself through.



More rain to come Thursday. I think I'll leave the 911 at home.

I hate you guys....she left WSVN 7 here in Miami for LA

She used to me my weather girl

[pwd72s]

Definitely bass ackwards weather this winter...up here in Oregon, drought predicted, with a very dangerous fire season. I assume the same for Washington? So guys, if it's possible, send a couple of inches of liquid sunshine up our way, will ya? Normal rainfall here is a few feet per winter...I doubt we've had half that.

[Drago]

I was temporarily blinded by the sun again today...lets see, that make it 94 days in a row now...

We're going to pay for it though. Fire season will be a b*tch this year.

[hoff944]

It's getting to be hail and tornado season here in Tennessee. You don't want your 911 out in golf ball size hail.

[Craig 930 RS]

Driving a 911 with 1" of snow with R-compound tires

[kenikh]

Originally posted by LakeCleElum
dd74 - You would have my sympathy, except that's an everyday story in Seattle in the "Wet Season" (Oct/May)......Not that we're gloating, but we've had clear, sunny skies for weeks....Never driven my P-car more in the winter than this year.......There's only one cure.....MOVE TO SUNNY LAKE CLE ELUM!!!!!!!!

It has been an odd year up here, hasn't it? This winter, I feel like I never moved away from Monterey. Now if I could just afford to move back...

[GettinHeadStuds]

Originally posted by Zeke
The infrastructure is not built for this rain. There will be more hillslides and road damage. Seatle has had it's rain for all along and it's natural to the region. Here, that's not the case. We're having a tough time and there's little money in the state coffers to fix things.

I was reading yesterday that city officials in Seattle are trying to figure out what the hell they're going to do about the lack of rain they've had in the PACNW! They're spending money to have researchers decifer if the past few years are an indication of a permanent weather shift... Along with the research they are advising residence to conserve water, use barrel reservoirs for their outdoor needs, and design water retaining gardens... Seattle?!?

[air-cool-me]

all i can say is i left a sunny washington for a cold and rainy arizona and then i took my spring break to a wet california...

isnt that assbackwords

[Drago]

Originally posted by GettinHeadStuds
I was reading yesterday that city officials in Seattle are trying to figure out what the hell they're going to do about the lack of rain they've had in the PACNW! They're spending money to have researchers decifer if the past few years are an indication of a permanent weather shift... Along with the research they are advising residence to conserve water, use barrel reservoirs for their outdoor needs, and design water retaining gardens... Seattle?!?

Yep...and I just finished installing a sprinkler system...just in time for city official to tell me I can't use it.

[JeremyD]

Let's just hope for less hurricanes this year in Florida. You guys can keep the rain for just a little longer...

[gper]

Worst place to be in a 911 ?

Driving up to your wife's divorce attorney's office!

[tshih]

I used to go to school in Pasadena during 1980-81. Was driving a 914-2.0L on the Pasadena freeway and the sky just opened up. Rained so hard that I had to stop the car and crawl at 5 mph since visibility was nil. Still it wasn't as bad as when I was driving to NJ in same car and hydroplaned after spinning 720 degrees off the highway outside of Memphis TN in a rain drenched day, into a ditch next to the road. People were very friendly and concern enough to stop and see if I was OK. I was lucky to be fine and the car was wedge between 2 small trees. The next day I was able to limp home (1200 miles away!) after the repairs made because the CHT sensor was bad and a cheap quick fix (splicing in a 3Kohm resistor to permit the engine to run). But that's another story including meeting up with ripoff artists on the east coast getting the bent suspension pieces sorted out.

[RickM]

I'm looking out my window...at the snow. 3 to 8 tonite.....let's spin the wheel again......