Warning - Broken control arm bolt!

[jayeh]

Originally Posted by Killchain

Got a notice too, next oil change in about 800 mi so I'll have the dealer take a look. If they report no problems, I'm going ask for that in writing for future issues. Yet here in New Mexico other than some spot precipitation last couple of years. We are in a drought.

You can have as much of the 1 foot of snow that fell yesterday as you want. You just have to come pick it up.

Anyone in Canada get one of these?

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by jayeh

You can have as much of the 1 foot of snow that fell yesterday as you want. You just have to come pick it up

Several times, both here in Texas and in Florida, I've heard natives debating cold climate natives who are complaining about the heat. Each time the discussion has ended with the FL or TX native saying 'You don't have to shovel humidity'. Each time the cold weather native has had no answer, because there isn't one .

[Amdkt7]

Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

Several times, both here in Texas and in Florida, I've heard natives debating cold climate natives who are complaining about the heat. Each time the discussion has ended with the FL or TX native saying 'You don't have to shovel humidity'. Each time the cold weather native has had no answer, because there isn't one .

That's because they know when to stop blowing hot air!

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by Amdkt7

That's because they know when to stop blowing hot air!

LOL

[Killchain]

Just got blessed by Toyota, I got a oil change completed. Yet I requested a inspection of the Lower Arm # 2 bolt. No corrosion, bolt was intact. They put that in writing on service receipt . Like I said earlier here in New Mexico we are high and dry for moisture. Yet I will always ask for the inspection of that bolt.

[bronsin]

Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

Several times, both here in Texas and in Florida, I've heard natives debating cold climate natives who are complaining about the heat. Each time the discussion has ended with the FL or TX native saying 'You don't have to shovel humidity'. Each time the cold weather native has had no answer, because there isn't one .

In NJ theres no earthquakes, tornadoes, tsunamies, landslides, floods, (theres plenty of water though) forest fires, and its not too hot in winter or cold in summer.

I was going to say no hurricanes but after Sandy I guess I cant.

Wait a minute we had no problem near Philly. No problem at all. If you live near the ocean yeah you might have had a problem.

My brother and Mom live in Houston and Moms in a nursing home. Twice they had to skeedaddle.

She said she wanted to retire someplace where its warm!

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by bronsin

In NJ theres no earthquakes, tornadoes, tsunamies, landslides, floods, (theres plenty of water though) forest fires, and its not too hot in winter or cold in summer.

I was going to say no hurricanes but after Sandy I guess I cant.

Wait a minute we had no problem near Philly. No problem at all. If you live near the ocean yeah you might have had a problem.

My brother and Mom live in Houston and Moms in a nursing home. Twice they had to skeedaddle.

She said she wanted to retire someplace where its warm!

I found leaving (with a hurricane of significant strength approaching) best. I closed on my house a few weeks before Ike hit in 2008. I left Texas on Thursday just to be safe. I later looked at a pic that someone posted from a point on U.S. 59 south of Lufkin on Friday that showed bumper to bumper traffic out there in the boonies re people trying to flee the hurricane ---- 24 hours earlier I had experienced no traffic at all at the spot where that pic was taken. I awakened in my hotel room in suburban Memphis, TN the morning after Ike and the wind (hundreds of miles away from the hurricane) had lifted up all of the outdoor furniture and carried it into the pool.

[bronsin]

Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

I found leaving (with a hurricane of significant strength approaching) best. I closed on my house a few weeks before Ike hit in 2008. I left Texas on Thursday just to be safe. I later looked at a pic that someone posted from a point on U.S. 59 south of Lufkin on Friday that showed bumper to bumper traffic out there in the boonies re people trying to flee the hurricane ---- 24 hours earlier I had experienced no traffic at all at the spot where that pic was taken. I awakened in my hotel room in suburban Memphis, TN the morning after Ike and the wind (hundreds of miles away from the hurricane) had lifted up all of the outdoor furniture and carried it into the pool.

Yes I told bro "Put Mom on a plane to NJ" if any hurricanes threaten. He didnt do that but at least got Mom in a car a few days before everyone else scrammed. They went to a friends house in Dallas for the duration.

Its a good thing because had they left when everyone else did they would have gotten on the freeway and been stuck in traffic for hours if not days. Even idleing the engine the car woould have run out of gas and there is no way to get gas stuck in miles of traffic. No gas no AC = no Mom.

That was twice and it happened a few years ago. Now she is in a nurseing home and beyond the capability of my brother to do anything for her. If there another hurricane she will have to be evaced by the staff.

If that happens....

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by bronsin

Yes I told bro "Put Mom on a plane to NJ" if any hurricanes threaten. He didnt do that but at least got Mom in a car a few days before everyone else scrammed. They went to a friends house in Dallas for the duration.

Its a good thing because had they left when everyone else did they would have gotten on the freeway and been stuck in traffic for hours if not days. Even idleing the engine the car woould have run out of gas and there is no way to get gas stuck in miles of traffic. No gas no AC = no Mom.

That was twice and it happened a few years ago. Now she is in a nurseing home and beyond the capability of my brother to do anything for her. If there another hurricane she will have to be evaced by the staff.

If that happens....

I (at some point before my house was finished) saw the pictures that PREVIOUSLY were attached to the Wikipedia entry for Hurricane Rita (which occurred in 2005). One of the pictures showed Interstate 45 in Southern Montgomery County with the Contraflow configuration (All lanes on both sides set to head North (away from the Gulf)). In that picture I-45 was a parking lot and cars were pulled over with hoods up. I vowed that If I was around and a storm like that was headed for Houston, that I would get a jump on getting away (and I did). I don't know why that picture was taken off the Wikipedia entry. It was up there for a couple of years at least after the storm. Perhaps someone had copyrighted the picture, became aware that it was being used, and denied use to Wikipedia.