Snow from your neck of the woods (at son's). Yeah, I know it's not much, but it's more than we got.:)
Posted on 02/02/2011 2:28:44 PM PST by WestCoastGal
Nothing yet but, just saw this Port Arthur, TX PD has closed all bridges & overpasses in the city due 2 icing. Includes Intracoastal Waterway, Sabine Pass & Taylors Bayou.
Re: New fueling can
“It’s crazy, man,” Gibson said. “We blow it all up now because it’s new and it’s scary. But it’s like anything else: the gas guys will get used to it and we’ll figure out a way to make it work, and probably we’ll get [the pit-stop times] back to where they were. We’ll figure out a way to get it done faster. But right now, you want to be that guy who can figure out this scenario best — so you can take advantage of it.”
The difficulty lies in the new, bulkier configuration of the new gas cans and their longer necks — plus the fact that NASCAR has eliminated the catch-can man, reducing the number of team members who can go over the wall during a pit stop from seven to six.
“It doesn’t just change getting to the wall and getting to the car and back,” Gibson said. “Actually getting connected is such a different connecting deal, if you’re off just a little bit it slows down the flow of the fuel tremendously.”
The connectivity challenge was obvious during recent testing sessions at Daytona, where puddles of spilled fuel dotted garage stalls and pit stalls. Gibson and others admitted they were concerned some fires might erupt as a result.
When they announced the decision to go to the new system, NASCAR vice president of competition Robin Pemberton explained the decision by saying, “We’ll run a fueling system that will eliminate the catch-can guy [because] it fuels and vents all in one process. It’s what the Truck Series teams have used successfully.”
Yet Gibson said the Cup cars are so much different than the Truck Series machines that they’ve been able to learn next to nothing from observing.
“Their fueling systems are different. Their cans are different, their nozzles are different,” Gibson said. “All that stuff is slower. All that mating stuff is different — because that’s what we were going to do. We were going to go back and look at the Truck Series and look at how they did their pit stops and all that. Well, they’re not even the same deal.”
http://www.nascar.com/news/110203/new-fueling-system-problems/index.html
# Per NWS: Numerous cars in ditch reported along US 44 near Corpus Christi Airport. Map Location: http://bit.ly/e0w70l 1 minute ago via TweetDeck
# TWC Breaking TWCBreaking
Police closing I-35 from MM 6 into Laredo, TX. Freezing drizzle/sleet icing over bridges. Multiple accidents. Map: http://wxch.nl/hsKlyS
For those that don't know .
They’re stacking up in Corpus. Harbor bridge is closed, both causeways, and multiple overpasses.
We just have nice shiny streets, sidewalks, etc.
....and lots and lots of pretty(?) pinwheels.
It’s not really that bad. Most everything is shutdown, many of us realize we can’t drive on ice and don’t bother trying.
Not enough moisture to have the pretty icicles.
Took a drive East of me today to Elkins, first time in about a year. The skyline of Laurel Ridge has been despoiled with several dozens of these monstrosities in various stages of assemblage..... damn shame.
Pinwheels = wind generators. OK, now I get it. I was thinking of those little umbrella’s in adult beverages.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bewgjoE_Nc&feature=player_embedded
New Camaro convertible rolled of the line in Oshawa, Canada.
Some were turning, some were not. IF they actually worked, we wouldn’t have to be smuggling electricity in from Mexico.
New cartels?
Snow from your neck of the woods (at son's). Yeah, I know it's not much, but it's more than we got.:)
So that’s what snow looks like? What is the car and is it for sale? I am at work as I couldn’t post to FR from home...
That’s what it looks like, or so they say. LOL
Don’t know what the car is. Son’s fil has three of them in about the same shape, they’re not for sale though. Don’t really know what he’s going to do with them but grandsons, his and mine, busted out a couple of the windows in the ones that still had them. Prit near caused a disturbance in the force. LOL
Jr looks good.
A superbowl ad that will air tomorrow for the Camero:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RttT4jC7_10
I want one just like that!
Me want...
As far as I know this is full production model.
There will be a Dale Earnhardt version coming out in a few months, also a Kerry Earnhardt truck.
We got 0 snow. But, there is pipe breakage everywhere - so far I’ve been lucky **knock on wood**
Great commercial :)
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