Getting on the road shortly for a long drive to Gainesboro, Virginia y'all have fun now ya'hear.
Our big drive comes on Saturday.................to my ex-wife's house.?ÿ Roughly 80 miles.?ÿ No TSA agents inspecting my buttocks on that journey.
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Meanwhile, Daughter #2 has already arrived in Clearwater Beach, Florida by air.?ÿ She will miss out on the persimmon surprise stuffing in the turducken.?ÿ Just joking about the turducken as the ex-wife no longer eats meat and she is the hostess.
500 miles round trip, think I'm going to cancel, weather is awful,,,,,,,,,,,,,again.?ÿ
Was that you we saw on the National news a couple of nights back attempting to get down the embankment to retrieve your auto or, at least, something in it??ÿ Just watching such news stories reminds me of why I did not become a career employee at a great job in Michigan.
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No, it wasn't me, but I did recently drive very slowly past a car on it's edge in the middle of the interstate a few weeks ago, it had half rolled and gone into a spin resting pointing backwards almost in the very center of the lane balanced over the passenger doors, wrecker was trying to put it back on its wheels.
I was just looking at road conditions map, my decision may be made for me, looks like they are closing roads and moving this way from the south, fine by me. Slam the gates down and make everyone stay put.
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Well I'm about there, filling up in Winchester.
Using your cell phone while pumping gas? Maybe Georgia needs to go to no self-serve like Oregon.
Though not advisable, talking on a cell phone while pumping gas isn't a fire hazard. ... Static electricity is the villain, which can ignite vapors often seen near the nozzle of the pump as gas flows into your car. But there are also unseen vapors a few inches or more away, which are equally as flammable, say experts.Jul 27, 2012
Cell phones don't bother me, it's the idiots talking on the cell phone with a lit cigarette dangling out of their mouth keeping time to their speech like a metrophone while gas is flowing.
@flga-pls-2-2
Is it possible to ignite gasoline vapors with a lit cigarette? I thought you needed an open flame or spark.
Hold my beer, I going out into the garage to try it...
JA, PLS SoCal
@flga-pls-2-2
Is it possible to ignite gasoline vapors with a lit cigarette?...
JA, PLS SoCal
Not very likely.?ÿ The ignition temp of gasoline and the temp of a lit cigarette are slightly distant.?ÿ Although one can improve those odds and increase the cigarette temp by actually puffing quickly on the cigarette closely adjacent to gasoline....
BTW - "Mythbusters" only gave this situation a "Partially Plausible".
You can light farts with a lighter but don't wear frayed blue jeans.....
I bet Paden has a story about that....
I bet Paden has a story about that....
I do.?ÿ Lemme see if I can figure out which drive it's buried on and I'll share.
Well, I'm sending most of the easterners some fun weather,,,,,,, I guess.?ÿ
Black ice here, closed the road down yesterday after we went through, you couldn't tell the road was icy. I stopped for a Pickup in the median of the interstate, she had been unfortunate to slide off at a crossing flow line with two box culverts, clipped a wing wall, bounced through the bottom of the flat crossing dry wash.?ÿ
When I got there she was on the phone calling 911 and seemed to be ok, I told her I could drive her rig out of the flow line, but she didn't want to, then I realized she was injured, blood on her forehead, and she seemed a little out of it, no condition to drive, so we sat with her in our rig tell the emergency crew showed up. Then it was 100 miles of 80 mph interstate at about 40mph. Glad I had the Jeep with us.
I'm thinking we've had a 1-3/4 months of winter already. ?ÿ
PC, did you ever light the gas pipe vents behind (Bills?) 66 station?
When I worked Dave`s Texaco we used to whe I was working the night shift. Cops made us put it out every time lest we incinerate the immediate vicinity. 😈
PC, did you ever light the gas pipe vents behind (Bills?) 66 station?
When I worked Dave`s Texaco we used to whe I was working the night shift. Cops made us put it out every time lest we incinerate the immediate vicinity. 😈 ?ÿ
Never did that!?ÿ It sounds dangerous...and this is coming from somebody that use to sit around with his brothers and fire .22 shells clamped in pliers and smacked with a ball-peen finish hammer....while we were watching tv.?ÿ
Momma made us quit 'cause we shot through the wall into her closet.
I still take my can out of the truck bed and put on pavement and touch pump before attempting to pump gas into can or into vehicle.
Static electricity can be dangerous around fuel.
Safety rules are simple and necessary. Have seen too many tragic events at the race track after a wreck with high octane fuel fire not visible to the eye.
That is why they foam everything so quickly these days. Safety before reason.
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