Look what happened to this feller's workshop

[krw]

I guess it's _not_ working, huh?

[Lew Hodgett]

------------------------------------- A place where you stop a Tesla, of course.

Lew

[krw]

Where it catches fire is a good place to stop a Tesla. (Sorry, Bill)

[Phil Kangas]

"Bill"

whether the insured lives in a "No-Fault"

are not afraid to sue.

I don't think he lives in the United States if he can stand on his right foot, on the ground, and put his left foot on the clutch pedal. Something is very wrong with this story....

[Bill]

"Recharging station" would work for Tesla Stop too. I would regard the previous notion as more of a "Tesla Grill". ; )

[Leon]

Plenty salty, and directly connected, but situated for the most part between the mainland and Galveston Island.

[Leon]

She probably had been listening for two days. And ignoring the noise the previous 6 months.

[DanG]

No to emergency brakes in freezing temperatures. Same reason to never park track equipment (dozers, etc) on the ground in freezing temperatures.

[Swingman]

^^^^^^^ fify ...

[Swingman]

Brackish water, depending upon the location.

I used to duck hunt in both Galveston and Trinity bays and it was not unusual to break ice, of an early morning, going to the blinds in the upper reaches where the water was brackish (more fresh water, less salt), thus more subject to freezing.

[krw]

Never would have thought that even brackish water would freeze in Galveston. My wife lived in Houston (burbs) when she was young. She tells amazing stories of the snowfalls (scrape an entire yard to get enough snow to build a snowman) but never mentioned ground water actually, you know, freezing. ;-)

[krw]

I suppose you have a point. If you have to wait to have it recharged, you're *stopped* for some time.

Hopefully there is a bar around, to drown that $100K loss.

[Swingman]

It has indeed been a while, I was in jr high and high school at the time, so it was mid to late 50's. Depending upon how old your wife is, and whether she was a duck/goose hunter, she might have not experienced it.

Dad and I built a flat bottom, high transom, 11' plywood/fiberglass "Jon" boat to specifically hunt the upper reaches of both bays, and I hunted almost daily during the season as a youngster after I bought my first car (at 14). I routinely hit the launch site around 4:30 AM, as I had to travel up to 30 minutes get to the areas we had blinds, and on a number of occasions broke a thin ice sheet the entire distance, which wasn't considered remarkable enough to talk about.

Biggest snow I've experienced in Houston was around 1960. IIRC, we had at least 4" of snow, with drifts up to a foot along our outbuildings.

Times have changed ... Hunting alone, I occasionally had to ride out a combination low tide/strong Norther' and couldn't get back across the flats until the tide changed late that same evening.

These days parents would call out the Coast Guard, be worried sick, and it would be on the evening news.

Mine had the attitude that I had been taught to take care of myself, didn't blink an eye, and the only thing I had to explain was why I had missed school, if it was a school day.

[krw]

She's 61, so lived there from 52 to 66ish? I asked her about it again, when we were out for lunch today (great Mexican place here). She never remembered such but wouldn't have been in Galveston during the Winter.

That's probably what she remembers. The scraping the yard part is my Yankee spin. ;-)

If that happened today?!!!