4 Jerry Cans and Two Water Cans?
- Thread starter dcaven
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Olip. Thank you. Also, thank you to the people who pointed out why that much weight on the roof is not a good idea. That was the kind of information I was looking for. The bullshit insults i can live without. Not sure why it isn't sufficient to make an argument. I guess some people need to feel superior.
Our collective, sufficient, argument is that it's a stupid idea. For all the reasons pointed out already, but mainly hurricanes don't sneak up on you over night. How about you buy 20 gallons of gas and keep it in the garage. In December you can *slowly* pour it into your gas tank a gallon at a time so the old rotten fuel doesn't fuck up your truck. When it's run out, wait until May or so to buy another 20 gallons. There is absolutly no reason to cart this dead weight around on your truck all the time.
Or, maybe the real reason is that you want to look like Johnny fucking Operator with jerry cans hanging all over your mall crawler. I don't know. Here's the real question: How many "zombie attack" items do you own?
I left Wilmington and went to Raleigh for Hurricane Floyd, stations weren't necessarily out of gas but the power was out nearly everywhere for a good while afterwards, so it amounted to the same thing in the days after the storm. That's about the main reason I could see for taking some extra fuel with you, or if you need it for a generator in the aftermath. Doesn't mean you need to ride around with gas cans 24/7 but I can see the practicality in having extra gas on hand in the aftermath of a sizable storm.
If I had a dollar for every time I've seen this before on Discoweb I could buy a new jerry can. The predictable plot line goes like this:
1. Someone doesn't like the responses he gets to a post
2. Discussion descends into insults
3. Original poster proclaims he is leaving
4. The thread goes on
5. Original poster returns despite insisting that he is done with this forum, tries to get the last word in
6. The thread goes on
Sometimes #5 and #6 continue on spin cycle for weeks.
If you're going to ignore this forum, then do what you say you are going to do. If you are going to stick around and benefit from the useful information (albeit often contained within some crap), then learn to stop taking this personally. Nobody ever cares whether the original poster stays or leaves. Just make a decision and stick with it.
Tropical Storm Cindy is making landfall, heading for Texas. Wonder if homeboy had enough days of advance warning to fill his gas tank (and jerry cans) and drive his Disco away from the storm at 10mpg?
News article in Houston Chronicle
"Tropical Storm Cindy formed earlier this week near the Yucatan Peninsula and was expected to move inland near the Texas-Louisana line, shifting the worst of the heavy rains and flooding away from Houston and into southern Louisiana and Mississippi."
News article in Houston Chronicle
"Tropical Storm Cindy formed earlier this week near the Yucatan Peninsula and was expected to move inland near the Texas-Louisana line, shifting the worst of the heavy rains and flooding away from Houston and into southern Louisiana and Mississippi."
