Hats off to you, that was a seat-of-the-pants adventure. Now you need to brainstorm how you’re gonna step it up for next year. Pull a Comanche out of a lake? Dig an early slatgrill MB out of a Tunisian dune where it’s sat since 1942?

Those sudden heavy deluges we get in May-June can be scary, especially with how badly people like to tailgate here and all the cars on bald tires.

I would make an exception for extremely severe precipitation. I’ve done it once, but it was on an interstate during a summer thunderstorm with a sudden heavy downfall that lasted several minutes. Visibility dropped to maybe 2-3 yards and traffic slowed to about 15-20 mph but there were still idiots flying up from…

I too have stayed in that very Holidump for a few of my brother’s youth hockey tournaments years ago. Pretty sure the main entrance is just a portal to the Despair Dimension.

Oh man, I know someone like this. His car was always nearly on empty, only ever filled it with just enough to get wherever and back. He wasn’t broke or trying to be super frugal, just incredibly lazy in his words. He bummed rides with me all the time but always chipped in for gas. Remains the only person I’ve ever…

Michigan here, understaffing present in automotive and heavy truck/ag suppliers too. My dad’s department (stamping die design) at a major automaker hasn’t brought in any fresh blood in 16 years. He’s in his mid to late 40s and is almost the youngest guy there.

You’re a wild man David, may the gods of internal combustion smile upon you.

There are dozens of us who like this stuff, in the quiet down-low way. Big old mechanical stuff is awesome, but getting associated with foamers is sort of like leprosy.

Hate to burst your bubble, but I know several engineering/IT professionals who voted for the Cheeto That Walked Like a Man, couple of them were very active campaigning in Michigan for him.

The driveway gate at the mom and dad’s old house is narrow. Grandpa’s old van is big and doesn’t turn that sharp. Replacement doors are not cheap, and the phone call is going to be shamefully awkward.

My grandfather’s story:

Love your Wagoneer, the character is oozing off my screen.

Goes both ways. All that structural rust PATINA and booger welds EXPERT FABRICATION might give way from too many wayward toddlers.

I mountain bike and use a bell, using it at a distance is better etiquette IMO than hollering at walkers/runners as I come up behind them. It still doesn’t help with the earbuds-in walkers and runners, especially as you usually can’t pass safely let alone politely on a ~18"/.45m wide dirt trail if the other trail user…

This happened a few years ago near my parent’s place.

Not going to do much. HE shells aren’t going to do much in terms of fire, and might make the abattis more of a mess. If it did get set on fire, now your engineers need to extinguish it, wait to burn out (which could take even longer) or rely on bulldozers only to work on removing it. All of which still delays the…

There wouldn’t be much in the way of human remains left to find after a month or two, let alone three years.

We call it the Detroit Doughnut, and I’ll mention that it’s moving. As the city slowly comes back, some of the older suburbs (Wayne, Westland, Garden City, Redford, etc.) have been decaying, as older residents pass away and many others move to the exburbs (Brighton, Howell, etc.).

There’s always the sawzall & gas axe option.

He was informed about what the Venus probes really recorded and why we never went back, what actually happened to the USS Scorpion, and realized you can’t wall off space or the deep ocean.