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[camwyn]

"You shall take with you of every clean animal by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean two, a male and his female; also of the birds of the sky, by sevens, male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth."

I don't wanna drive from Interstate 280 to the Holland Tunnel any more tonight, Mommy.

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CassicDrogn

[(Anonymous)]

Well, as I noted earlier today, it could always have been a few degfrees colder snd come down as snow, or worse yet not quite that cold and been freezing rain. Mmm-mmm, two inches of freezing rain to rip up trees, knock out power for a week, and seal up cars and windwards house doors. (It happened in this part of NH four or five years back.) (Gereric Eastern Europe Granny voice) There, you see bubula? It's not so bad. (end GEEG voice)

All the same, I know what you mean - I had to buy a hand-held squeegee today so I could keep wiping down the insides of my windows, because they were fogging too heavily for the air-blower vents to keep up, and attempting todrive in traffic with a six-inch band at the bottom of the windscreen mostly clear, the rest of it and both side windows completely whited out from condensation? Not a good plan. Just having the rear view occluded is bad enough, but with a plastic drop-top window there's not much choice about that.

At least I didn't have to go through standing water deep enough to worry about smothering the engine by filling the tailpipe, as happened several times living in the north-of-Boston area... and that was on the highway (well, Rte 128), the city streets were more canals. Does this happen in NY as well? They're pretty close to the water table from what I remember.

- CD

Re: CassicDrogn

[derien.livejournal.com]

(It happened in this part of NH four or five years back.)

Are you referring to The Ice Storm in '98? (http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/9801/09/weather.wrap/)

My mother inherited a sweet Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Katy out of that storm. A girl asked her to take this dog while she was at the shelter, because her house in town had no power or water and she couldn't even get to it by car because the street was blocked with fallen tree limbs. Then the girl never came back for the dog. (When my mother moved to Korea [in 2000, I think?] I had to give this sweet dog to an animal refuge league because nobody else in our family had facility to care for a dog that big and active.)

Re: CassicDrogn

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

"a sweet Rhodesian Ridgeback"

Anyone else read that as "Norwegian Ridgeback" at first glance?

Re: CassicDrogn

[camwyn]

Alas, no. Potter fandom has not the power to overcome a deep and abiding love of Dogs Too Big For Me To Feasibly Care For.

Re: CassicDrogn

[camwyn]

Gha. No, I don't much wanna consider the possibility of snow or frozen rain, but I was feeling the water against the belly of my car in a few places last night and panicking rather rapidly. had some trouble seeing through the rain, let alone driving through it. I tell you, I was never gladder to spend twenty minutes struggling to find a parking space- at least the streets weren't flooding in my part of Jersey City...

It happens in parts of NY, too, though not all of them. Manhattan's an island and a lot of lower Manhattan is built on fill rather than proper geography- Canal Street is named after the body of water that sort of formed there during the early days of construction in that part of the island.

[camwyn]

Heh. As I was thinking for myself last night, I believe the answer there is: "Get a horse!"

[kelathefinn.livejournal.com]

Ah... I'm in Jinan, remember? The willows are in pale green leaf, the sun is shining, the pink and white flowers on the trees by South Gate of the university campus are in full bloom, taxis cost maximum 2 dollars for a ride clear across town, and the air pollution is killing me... (did you know that arsenic is a by-product of the combustion of coal?)... so there's grief wherever you are, bubula... enjoy it as much as you can when you finally DO get home.

[camwyn]

Oh, I got home okay. I posted from home last night. It's just that the water levels were terrifying, as I was starting to pass people whose cars had lost the battle with the Tailpipe Demons and who had to get out and push. Or who just stopped dead on the ramp to the elevated highway, or on the shoulder of the elevated highway, or... you get the picture. My one real car accident (I don't count being hit from behind at a light) involved wet road surfaces screwing up stopping distance. I don't deal well with the idea of it happening again, and when you add in flooding... I can only deal with driving across flooding when I'm in a large, heavy vehicle with good ground clearance, like a van or a converted ambulance.

I'm sorry to hear about your lungs, though. That really sucks.

[feonixrift.livejournal.com]

... close your eyes and pretend really hard that you're driving a late 1950's model Cadillac hearse ...

... a large, heavy vehicle with good ground clearance, like a van or a converted ambulance.

*whistles innocently*

[camwyn]

Oh, do be quiet. I was referring to having to drive a Red Cross ERV through a big fecking hurricane spawned puddle last year- we're talking about flooding that had the Florida state police fencing off sections of I-75 six ways from Sunday. I had to drive the ERV from Atlanta, GA to Daytona, FL. I've also had to drive cargo vans through Hurricane Floyd flooding so bad I turned to my Jewish co-worker and asked her, "I don't normally do this sort of blasphemy, but is there any chance you could get Moses on the horn?" Still don't know how we avoided having our tailpipe swamped.

When I say large and heavy, I mean large. AY DRAIVE BEEG TRUK.

[camwyn]

Unrelated note: when I say 'close your eyes' I of course mean 'while stopped at a red light or stopped in traffic, but definitely NOT EVER WHILE THE CAR IS MOVING'.

[camwyn]

Mmm. Now there's a vehicle I'd love to take the course to drive.

Not that I don't love the current ERVs, but still. One of those from NJ to GA to FL? Oh yeah.