CSB3: Old Men Discuss Walking Shoes - Forum Decides To Get Matching Crocs

[Acadia18]

Thanks

 

[riceburner]

Wow man what a casual way to put it lol. I had to read it several times to see if i misread something. Sorry for the loss!!

 

[Pineapple]

egg or too thick cheese?

I would like pineapple instead to counter salty fat of spam.

It's this sweetish egg slice iirc

 

[Strange Mud]

take my $ gif

 

[Pineapple]

CSB: this past storm was kind of wild for city standards. First we had about 6-8 inches of heavy snow starting after midnight, and then we like another 8 hours of heavy rain. Because of street parking, city plowing, and the fact that neither Cambridge nor Somerville declared snow emergency and moved us off street, so we had this tricky situation where there was still so much snow on the side of the street that the heavy rain couldn't drain away. People who hadn't dug out their car (90% of the street) after a couple hours into the rain were sitting in a 4 inch+ pool of water, and the water was flowing like a river down the center of the street instead of along the curbs and into the sewer drains. We rarely have flood situations but this was an unusual confluence. I'm sure in rural areas they've been washed out in all kinds of unexpected ways.

My own car had at least 4 inches of water in a deep puddle behind it, with someone's driveway behind me, and nose to ass behind my girlfriends car (incidentally the battery is dead on hers). I drive a lowered GTI, so I have like 3 inches of ground clearance overall. I needed to leave my girlfriend's house before it got too dark, and I knew it was going to freeze hard overnight.

I was certain the exhaust and potentially the front would go under if I backed the car up. I had cleared the side and rear of my car from plowed in snow so I was free enough of snow and ice, but the water was all changing over to ice quickly. I managed to find an open sewer drain about 8 cars downhill, and devised a series of cuts and channels using my shovel in the snow banks around peoples' cars. I got the water flowing in sequence from each of the pools to all go downstream in a rush that wasn't exactly biblical but was pretty satisfying.

I went inside and rested for a couple hours, and once the rain had stopped I went to leave. The pool behind me had dropped to about 2 inches, and I zig zagged my way out without any wheel spin or steam clouds. It was really icy when I got home but since I live on a small slight hill the water had all drained properly. I threw down tons of salt. The end.

 

[messrock]

CSB: this past storm was kind of wild for city standards. First we had about 6-8 inches of heavy snow starting after midnight, and then we like another 8 hours of heavy rain. Because of street parking, city plowing, and the fact that neither Cambridge nor Somerville declared snow emergency and moved us off street, so we had this tricky situation where there was still so much snow on the side of the street that the heavy rain couldn't drain away. People who hadn't dug out their car (90% of the street) after a couple hours into the rain were sitting in a 4 inch+ pool of water, and the water was flowing like a river down the center of the street instead of along the curbs and into the sewer drains. We rarely have flood situations but this was an unusual confluence. I'm sure in rural areas they've been washed out in all kinds of unexpected ways.

My own car had at least 4 inches of water in a deep puddle behind it, with someone's driveway behind me, and nose to ass behind my girlfriends car (incidentally the battery is dead on hers). I drive a lowered GTI, so I have like 3 inches of ground clearance overall. I needed to leave my girlfriend's house before it got too dark, and I knew it was going to freeze hard overnight.

I was certain the exhaust and potentially the front would go under if I backed the car up. I had cleared the side and rear of my car from plowed in snow so I was free enough of snow and ice, but the water was all changing over to ice quickly. I managed to find an open sewer drain about 8 cars downhill, and devised a series of cuts and channels using my shovel in the snow banks around peoples' cars. I got the water flowing in sequence from each of the pools to all go downstream in a rush that wasn't exactly biblical but was pretty satisfying.

I went inside and rested for a couple hours, and once the rain had stopped I went to leave. The pool behind me had dropped to about 2 inches, and I zig zagged my way out without any wheel spin or steam clouds. It was really icy when I got home but since I live on a small slight hill the water had all drained properly. I threw down tons of salt. The end.

Similar here - but I’m not on a hill. Had to take the boy out for basketball yesterday, thankfully took the Atlas b/c there were craters and ponds that would have swallowed my car.

Also - shithead new neighbors never shoveled. So that’s great.

 

[Strange Mud]

people who left their cars in puddles which then froze overnight are in for a rude awakening.

 

[Pineapple]

people who left their cars in puddles which then froze overnight are in for a rude awakening.

My neighbors Mercedes suv tank required a random passerby-er to get pushed out just after I typed that lol. I watched her spinning the rear tires while the fronts got stuck plowing into in 5 inches of ice-slush. Almost went down to help (ie just shovel in front of the car lmao) but then she got free. No chance my car would get into that spot she left behind.
Is this the new "space saver" technique for 2025? It's been a while since I got to collect any "discarded neighborhood street furniture"

 

[Strange Mud]

I had a old truck that saw rare use. Thru neglect I let it actually get frozen in a 3" deep puddle. Two weeks before it melted enough to use it again. That may have been the year when we had those plastic candy canes decorating the walk until St Pats day when the ground unfroze enough to wrench them out

 

[cb1111]

67. And yup, that's how my sister said it. He died doing what he loved.

Man, sorry to hear that.

But in keeping with this forum "did he die doing who he loved?"

On a more serious note, it is always hard when a parent dies and seeing a bit of humor in the situation helps a bit but feel free to PM if you want to talk.

 

[riceburner]

From an updated mk8 golf r article, what a kick in the balls:

"Unfortunately, it will only be available with this transmission option and, sadly for you purists, no six-speed manual box anymore. But what we think will please you the most is the extra 13 horsepower and an extra 15 pound-feet of torque that can be cranked out of the 2.0-liter IHI-turbocharged FSI EA888 engine sitting under the also-upgraded hood."

 

[Nineeightyone]

From an updated mk8 golf r article, what a kick in the balls:

"Unfortunately, it will only be available with this transmission option and, sadly for you purists, no six-speed manual box anymore. But what we think will please you the most is the extra 13 horsepower and an extra 15 pound-feet of torque that can be cranked out of the 2.0-liter IHI-turbocharged FSI EA888 engine sitting under the also-upgraded hood."

I've been really considering picking up another mk7 with a manual

 

[BigLips19]

Really sorry to hear about your dad Acadia, sounds like he was one of the real ones

 

[Acadia18]

Bruh you all are disappointing. I bounce for a full day, and there's like 2 posts...

 

[jay745]

Bruh you all are disappointing. I bounce for a full day, and there's like 2 posts...

The way you announced your dad passing so casually left us feeling weird.