Robin, to the @#$%mobile!

jamiethekiller wrote:Get that diesel VW

Is that the one they're advertising via the VW "year end, rear end" 3 old wives ads that make me laugh & I'm not ashamed?

beats me.

this summer i've been averaging over 43mpg and i know EEM's on the move a lot.

my wife had a rental prius for 4 months (it just needed an oil change so enterprise gave her a different car ) and it was averaging 50+. She didn't have to pay for gas anyway, but wow. Even did 53 on a long highway trip.

seems like a lot to get out of paying hundred bucks for a violation you probably committed.

CalvinBall wrote:seems like a lot to get out of paying hundred bucks for a violation you probably committed.

In my experience, it often is easier/cheaper to just pay the fine and move on.

But if the points will affect your cost of insurance, it's worth the fight.

I only fought once - and won. No lawyer. I caught the cop in a technicality - he wrote the ticket indicating I was in a 35mph zone, but it was 40.

jerseyhoya wrote:http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one

RIP smitty

Now I've had a chance to read this whole thing. It's terrifying.

When the big one hits, my parents and brother and sister-in-law (assuming they're at home) are out of harm's way from the tsunami but stand a good chance of losing their homes from the quake itself. And electrical and phone service is almost certain to be disrupted so it will probably be days before I can even find out whether they're OK.

haven't had a chance to read that yet, but is it the same thing that's gonna blow up Yellowstone National Park any day now?

Different faults. The Cascadia fault runs just offshore of the west coast from northern California all the way to BC. It has been basically totally stuck for 300+ years, no little pressure-relief earthquakes at all. It's ~75 years overdue based on historical averages.

terrifying

I won't believe it until Jake Gylenhall is in a movie about it

phatj wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one

RIP smitty

good read. I saw a special on that about 7-8 years ago. I still want to move there, but it's hard to find the sweet spot where you are far enough east that you avoid the danger areas while still being far enough west that you get enough rain and access to the beaches.
I was looking just east and west of the Portland area.

Stay on the inland side of the coast range and you might avoid getting wiped out by the tsunami at least.

I think I'll find the inundation maps and look at them before buying anything. Also gotta watch out for volcanos. I have several other requirements that make finding something difficult. I may go out next summer to look at the area more closely.

Yeh, Yellowstone is overdue, I believe, as is the New Madrid fault in the center of the country. The midwest is not remotely ready for an earthquake.

If/When yellowstone goes, the human race with take a hit, not just the US.

The yellowstone thing is more on the scale of every few hundred thousand years, not every couple hundred like this earthquake. 1/3 in 50 years for a big one and 1/10 in 50 years for a really big quake is pretty sufficiently frightening. The yellowstone supervolvano is basically an act of god and if you're around when it happens then welp, sorry, shit luck.

JUburton wrote:The yellowstone thing is more on the scale of every few hundred thousand years, not every couple hundred like this earthquake. 1/3 in 50 years for a big one and 1/10 in 50 years for a really big quake is pretty sufficiently frightening. The yellowstone supervolvano is basically an act of god and if you're around when it happens then welp, sorry, shit luck.

that's all true. But it's overdue, man!!

Bucky wrote:my wife had a rental prius for 4 months (it just needed an oil change so enterprise gave her a different car ) and it was averaging 50+. She didn't have to pay for gas anyway, but wow. Even did 53 on a long highway trip.

I got 57.5 from home to the OBX and 60.0 on the way back in my Prius, and this was in late August to the A/C was running the whole time. Average mid-40s in my day-to-day driving.

It's awesome going 400-500 miles on a tank and filling up with less than 10 gallons.

I'm scared now

It's true, that mileage is frighteningly good.