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05-17-2006, 11:21 AM
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Internet Sanitation Engineer
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Crawfordville, FL
Posts: 15,127
Name : Rich Zuchowski
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Well what do you expect when the driving "test" is a joke? You really don't have to know how to drive to get put in control of a 3,000+ pound bullet. How many people really know what to do when the backend of the vehicle tries to come around in front of them? Or realize that driving high speed through rain can bring the tires off of the surface via hydroplaning? I've seen people pass on blind curves like they didn't have a care in the world.
I've heard it suggested that all trucks and SUVs should have black boxes in them like they do in airplanes. I would bet BIG MONEY, that the most common LAST THING heard when the black box is pulled from some redneck's crumpled pickup truck and analyzed would be the driver saying "watch this!".......
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05-17-2006, 03:44 PM
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#12
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,640
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Originally Posted by canesfins
Well all the rain the last couple days has resulted n my Z getting wrecked. COming off the turnpike northbound on the exit to I595 last night the Ford Explorer next to me lost traction, hydroplaned and spun head on in my lane. I coule not stop and plowed into the car. The front end of my Z and front fright quarter panel is al lbusted up, my car is not driveable. Now I need to deal with insurance adjusters, settlements and figuring our what to do. Do I fix it with a new hood and tigershark front end, if I get a settlement do I sell it as is and get a new Z? We will see, but for right now, no Z.
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Man, THAT SUCKS!
Sorry to hear the bad news, keep us posted on how things work out.
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Originally Posted by Rich Z
I've heard it suggested that all trucks and SUVs should have black boxes in them like they do in airplanes.
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Some if not most do. They cost alot to analyze so it's usually only done in very serious or deadly crashes.
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05-17-2006, 07:36 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: New Port Richey
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Originally Posted by canesfins
Well all the rain the last couple days has resulted n my Z getting wrecked. COming off the turnpike northbound on the exit to I595 last night the Ford Explorer next to me lost traction, hydroplaned and spun head on in my lane. I coule not stop and plowed into the car. The front end of my Z and front fright quarter panel is al lbusted up, my car is not driveable. Now I need to deal with insurance adjusters, settlements and figuring our what to do. Do I fix it with a new hood and tigershark front end, if I get a settlement do I sell it as is and get a new Z? We will see, but for right now, no Z.
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OOOOOOOOOHH! That sucks . I would just s#*t if it happened to me. Best of luck to you. I hope the situation is resolved quickly and to your satifaction ..........Tom
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05-31-2006, 04:48 PM
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Lakeland, FL
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Lakeland, FL
Posts: 48
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I miss the daily rain in Tallahassee - my grass needs it bad down here now! One thing about Tallahassee; it was the hottest place in the summer and the coldest place in the winter, but we got a good dose of rain everyday in the spring and summer moths!
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06-06-2006, 06:40 AM
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Been around for awhile
Join Date: May 2006
Location: North Port Fl ,Franklin NC
Posts: 1,087
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Where's the Rain. Thunder only worrys me when i am fishing or like now that it's so dry.1 strike could easly cause a Forest Fire around here . I kinda live in the woods.We are back up to a Reserve Area with a Buttload of Trees .Please bring on the rain
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06-06-2006, 12:39 PM
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Internet Sanitation Engineer
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Crawfordville, FL
Posts: 15,127
Name : Rich Zuchowski
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Yeah, I'm surrounded by heavy forest. And 3/4 of a mile from the Apalachicola national forest. One Spring there was a huge fire in the forest (caused by a prescribed burn that got away from them) and we actually had smoldering embers falling out of the sky onto our lawn. That was pretty scary. Fire trucks were running around like chickens with their heads cut off. Kind of like the Keystone Cops in that they were stopping to ask directions to the fire.
But at least I had the foresight to put tin roofing on the house and buildings. Most house catch on fire because of burning embers igniting the asphault shingle tiles more commonly used.
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