The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695
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Steve... Worth a rehash for the enjoyment of the masses. Sounds rather frightening and macgyverish simultaneously.
I have that dream all the time. It's pretty terrible and I feel the roller coaster free fall as I careen off a bridge or mountain. Always wake before I hit the water but it repeats. 2-3 falls in a night.
I have that dream all the time. It's pretty terrible and I feel the roller coaster free fall as I careen off a bridge or mountain. Always wake before I hit the water but it repeats. 2-3 falls in a night.
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Mine is in that space in the driver's side door.
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If your car plummets from a bridge, it will likely go head first into the water, and it will sink to the bottom heavy side first, right?
I dunno. Seems to me you want to have that tool taped to the underside of your steering column/wheel. Otherwise what guarantee do you have that it will still be resting in the driver-side door when you grab for it?
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This is why I haven't bothered to carry a tool. I just hope I can hold my breath long enough to open the car door after the compartment floods.EnochRoot wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:52 amIf your car plummets from a bridge, it will likely go head first into the water, and it will sink to the bottom heavy side first, right?
I dunno. Seems to me you want to have that tool taped to the underside of your steering column/wheel. Otherwise what guarantee do you have that it will still be resting in the driver-side door when you grab for it?
Yeah, I've been reliving that the past couple of days. A sunny Sunday afternoon in January in northern Idaho. The day I learned that when the sun shines on snow during the day and then shadows fall, the snowmelt on the road turns to ice.HaulCitgo wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:02 pm Steve... Worth a rehash for the enjoyment of the masses. Sounds rather frightening and macgyverish simultaneously.
I have that dream all the time. It's pretty terrible and I feel the roller coaster free fall as I careen off a bridge or mountain. Always wake before I hit the water but it repeats. 2-3 falls in a night.
We ended up going down an embankment toward the creek. Then we hit the creek front first and flipped upside down in the water. In hindsight, I must have passed out for a short while we were flipping, because I remember hearing the grass under the car as we sped up, but not anything between then and us being upside down. My now-wife remembers hearing the Indigo Girls cassette slow down.
We were just incredibly lucky that the water was shallow enough so that there was about a foot of air space in the compartment. Even then, I may not have made it if my wife hadn't stopped me from trying to go the wrong way after she released my seat belt.
Then the window situation. Once we were upright and breathing, I was all set to kick out a window so we could swim free. But the brains of the outfit said "just roll it down." So we did that and swam out.
Which put us soaking wet in January in approaching darkness in rural Idaho. The embankment was too steep to climb out. But a guy and his wife had been driving by and saw us start to skid, and came down there with a rope to help us out. We waited in his car with the heat on for 45 minutes for the ambulance.
The only injuries were cracked ribs (my wife) and a few scrapes. And several years of being fucking terrified while driving along any road with an unguarded edge.
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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It is attached inside that well with whatever that sticky pad-like thing and velcro. Not saying it's a foolproof system, but it's not going to just fly out of that spot.EnochRoot wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:52 amIf your car plummets from a bridge, it will likely go head first into the water, and it will sink to the bottom heavy side first, right?
I dunno. Seems to me you want to have that tool taped to the underside of your steering column/wheel. Otherwise what guarantee do you have that it will still be resting in the driver-side door when you grab for it?
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That makes senseNonlinear FC wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:13 pmIt is attached inside that well with whatever that sticky pad-like thing and velcro. Not saying it's a foolproof system, but it's not going to just fly out of that spot.EnochRoot wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:52 amIf your car plummets from a bridge, it will likely go head first into the water, and it will sink to the bottom heavy side first, right?
I dunno. Seems to me you want to have that tool taped to the underside of your steering column/wheel. Otherwise what guarantee do you have that it will still be resting in the driver-side door when you grab for it?
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Scary stuff, Steve. Between that and your bicycle accident, I'd say you've caught your limit on this sort of thing.
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I bet. You should stick to riding a bike, it's much safer.Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:11 pmThis is why I haven't bothered to carry a tool. I just hope I can hold my breath long enough to open the car door after the compartment floods.EnochRoot wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:52 amIf your car plummets from a bridge, it will likely go head first into the water, and it will sink to the bottom heavy side first, right?
I dunno. Seems to me you want to have that tool taped to the underside of your steering column/wheel. Otherwise what guarantee do you have that it will still be resting in the driver-side door when you grab for it?
Yeah, I've been reliving that the past couple of days. A sunny Sunday afternoon in January in northern Idaho. The day I learned that when the sun shines on snow during the day and then shadows fall, the snowmelt on the road turns to ice.HaulCitgo wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:02 pm Steve... Worth a rehash for the enjoyment of the masses. Sounds rather frightening and macgyverish simultaneously.
I have that dream all the time. It's pretty terrible and I feel the roller coaster free fall as I careen off a bridge or mountain. Always wake before I hit the water but it repeats. 2-3 falls in a night.
We ended up going down an embankment toward the creek. Then we hit the creek front first and flipped upside down in the water. In hindsight, I must have passed out for a short while we were flipping, because I remember hearing the grass under the car as we sped up, but not anything between then and us being upside down. My now-wife remembers hearing the Indigo Girls cassette slow down.
We were just incredibly lucky that the water was shallow enough so that there was about a foot of air space in the compartment. Even then, I may not have made it if my wife hadn't stopped me from trying to go the wrong way after she released my seat belt.
Then the window situation. Once we were upright and breathing, I was all set to kick out a window so we could swim free. But the brains of the outfit said "just roll it down." So we did that and swam out.
Which put us soaking wet in January in approaching darkness in rural Idaho. The embankment was too steep to climb out. But a guy and his wife had been driving by and saw us start to skid, and came down there with a rope to help us out. We waited in his car with the heat on for 45 minutes for the ambulance.
The only injuries were cracked ribs (my wife) and a few scrapes. And several years of being fucking terrified while driving along any road with an unguarded edge.
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All of this plus the McConnell in-law story definitely caused my dream last night. I woke up not quite sure where I was so I looked at google maps on my phone and I was in SE Brooklyn which was a newly developing beachfront area and def not real Brooklyn. I left the apartment I was in, found my car to drive home, went a few blocks and there was no signage but I drove off like a 10 foot cliff into the ocean which was like 15 feet deep. Realistic enough that I thought about how to get a window open and whether I was about to die and all that. Super not fun.