I like the shape of the Crosstrek body

Why not go the other route and just lift a WRX?

The front skidplate is a bolt-on option for their bars. Here's a picture of their Impreza bars with skidplate, lights, and a winch.

Now you need to convince Gorilla to build a set of bull bars for you. They only support older Outbacks at the moment, but their bars & skidplate look fantastic!

A roll of contractor trash bags is a part of my normal car-camping kit. It saved a cub scout campout last year when it rained for the entire second day. Every camper had their own custom contractor raincoat. A few scouts (and parents) learned not to set up their tents on the low spots. One parent awoke that morning flo…

The Mississippi performs its own "open water disposal." The delta has pushed so far into the gulf that the current carries suspended sediments into deep water. Most of the corps contracts here allow the sediment to be pumped directly into the water column. From Beneficial Use: Balancing America's (Sediment) Budget:

The polder system works differently. A polder is created when a series of dikes are built to form a closed area and the water inside is pumped out. The result is land that is lower than the waterway.

This is not just a problem for New Orleans. If the Mississippi River were allowed to silt in, 100 ports would be affected. The northernmost port that depends on the Mississippi River is in Minneapolis, Minnesota; the easternmost is in Pittsburgh; and the westernmost is in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Sorry for the delay. You can download the original plate scans here: http://lmvmapping.erdc.usace.army.mil/RiverBasins/Ov…

It isn't just one port. There are ports serving cities and industry all the way up the river.

I nominate a Mazda B-Series / Ford Ranger and here is why:

You can't slow the river and maintain the channel depth required for ships.

I feel like the sentence "Dredged materials aren't dumped over the levees, they are suspended in the current and carried downstream." is an oversimplification.

The entire length of the Mississippi is controlled. Levees keep it within its banks. Dredging keeps the channel deep. Dredged materials aren't dumped over the levees, they are suspended in the current and carried downstream. The problem is that the current that would normally slow down as it approaches the gulf is…

The '80's gave you the only spectrum analyzer you should ever need:

I'm looking forward to electroluminescent paint going mainstream. It is all our TRON dreams come true.

Broken tabs.... My daughter learned about those a few weeks ago. I had an old junker laptop that I wanted to salvage some parts from (my daughter spilled a drink into it). I put her to work breaking it down into parts. She managed to break tabs for several plastic covers before she finally asked for advice. I added a…

It wasn't mine, so it wasn't my decision to make. Besides, spending $50 on a new hard drive beats $300 for a chromebook, especially when the laptop will never see use harder than a youtube video or a rousing game of solitare.

Waze will only allow so many reports in a given time period. If a cop is sitting in one spot responding to sightings by deleting them, he can only do it so many times before the app starts ignoring his input.

Then again if you had to run through 30 laptops like that, it would be a pain in the ass.