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How NOT to protect your car from a hurricane
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 10:26 pm
by Erik
Re: How NOT to protect your car from a hurricane
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:11 pm
by Fivetoes
This is your indoctorination to the red neck lifestyle Eric. If house trailers have tie-downs why not Buicks?
Re: How NOT to protect your car from a hurricane
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:17 pm
by Erik
As long as the car doesn't become a kite...

Re: How NOT to protect your car from a hurricane
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:09 am
by mekender
where did you get a picture of my car?
Re: How NOT to protect your car from a hurricane
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:20 am
by Erik
Just remembered an old joke.
Phone rings.
"Hi, did you hear I bought a new car yesterday?"
"Cool. What does it look like?"
"You can check it out yourself, it should be flying by your window right about now..."
Re: How NOT to protect your car from a hurricane
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:58 am
by 308Mike
Fivetoes wrote:This is your indoctorination to the red neck lifestyle Eric. If house trailers have tie-downs why not Buicks?
Yeah, but most house trailers use something more substantial than a garden hose.

Re: How NOT to protect your car from a hurricane
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 1:22 am
by Fivetoes
308Mike wrote:Fivetoes wrote:This is your indoctorination to the red neck lifestyle Eric. If house trailers have tie-downs why not Buicks?
Yeah, but most house trailers use something more substantial than a garden hose.

Don't be so sure of that.

Re: How NOT to protect your car from a hurricane
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:51 am
by esa5444
Ahem, that is a Mercury Grand Marquis, not a Buick Century. During Ike, my Crown Victoria did indeed experience 100+ mph winds and flying debris, but this was largely limited to a 100+ mph headwind resulting from a significant depression of the accelerator pedal while the car was in fourth gear with the engine running, and the debris was limited to every species of insect known to Texas.
Gotta love West-Texas roads, 80 mph limits, and with the Hurricane, a lot of the State Cops were down in the Houston area.
Re: How NOT to protect your car from a hurricane
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 4:23 am
by 308Mike
esa5444 wrote:Gotta love West-Texas roads, 80 mph limits, and with the Hurricane, a lot of the State Cops were down in the Houston area.
With all the miles and miles of nothingness, after a while you must wonder if you're getting anywhere since so little changes - even at 100+ MPH.
Re: How NOT to protect your car from a hurricane
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 5:05 am
by mekender
308Mike wrote:esa5444 wrote:Gotta love West-Texas roads, 80 mph limits, and with the Hurricane, a lot of the State Cops were down in the Houston area.
With all the miles and miles of nothingness, after a while you must wonder if you're getting anywhere since so little changes - even at 100+ MPH.
bump it up to about 160 and a herd of deer will look like a series of white streaks flashing by... dont ask me how i know
