For the Volvo, to update the NAV costs as much as a brand new Garmin.
When wife and I went on vacation to Brittany, we relied on the Renault nav and thus wound up on some "C" roads where we had to do battle with tractors. In fairness, these folks were very courteous and moved over to allow us to pass.
Mr Walton, you place your full trust in something Boulogne Billancourt ?
Mon pauvre, vous avez rien compris.
Us here have proverbs relating to the French Way.
Third are a couple of pics of two of our local rivers on Saturday. They rose several feet higher after the roads were closed just after we drove through. The second pic shows the main river, Tweed, and the first, its main tributary - the Teviot.
A woman in a 4x4 SUV ignored the road closure and attempted to drive along the Tweed - her car was swept into the main river and - fortunately for her - the 4x4 lodged against a tree some 80 yards downstream. The police are prosecuting her!! 🙂
[Wonder if the pics will stick now I have loaded Mac OS 10.11.2! 😡 ]
A woman in a 4x4 SUV ignored the road closure and attempted to drive along the Tweed - her car was swept into the main river and - fortunately for her - the 4x4 lodged against a tree some 80 yards downstream. The police are prosecuting her!! 🙂
[Wonder if the pics will stick now I have loaded Mac OS 10.11.2! 😡 ]
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Had to look that one up Cal! (we 70+ yos are more familiar with the F word! 😛)
Here is one from the next morning:
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Jacco
The large areas are just west of the Roxburgh Hotel, where I seem to remember you once stayed. [It is now managed by Albert Roux...but hasn't improved very much. Last week friends wife slipped on a badly designed and made ramp for wheelchairs and now has three pins in her wrist......just right for Christmas!]
[Should of got some pics of the golf course there]
The large areas are just west of the Roxburgh Hotel, where I seem to remember you once stayed. [It is now managed by Albert Roux...but hasn't improved very much. Last week friends wife slipped on a badly designed and made ramp for wheelchairs and now has three pins in her wrist......just right for Christmas!]
[Should of got some pics of the golf course there]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_flood_of_1953
It was pretty brutal all round, but the Dutch got the worst of it.
It was pretty brutal all round, but the Dutch got the worst of it.
I scanned these pictures several years ago during a discussion about hurricanes. Some hurricanes bring high winds that rip buildings apart, like Wilma in 2005. Others bring lots of water with little wind, but some bring both. These pictures are from hurricane Irene, 1999 edition. They reuse names if there were no deaths or serious property damage. There have been 3 Irenes that I can remember. The last one trashed NYC and killed 56 people, so there will be no more Irenes.
The 1999 version of hurricane Irene brought little wind, but was strong enough to get me a day off of work to play in the rain.....lots of rain.
There have been all sorts of complaints about the US Post Office, most of them justified, but on this occasion, they went above the call of duty to deliver the mail.
I was pointing at a rather large fish that swam down the sidewalk.
Most of these pictures were taken from the front porch of the house across the street from ours. Our house is the one in the middle of the large lake with the red minivan in the driveway. The blue bag conceals a 1966 Ford Mustang convertible which was parked on the highest ground in the yard. The green Pontiac behind the minivan was a brand new 1999 convertible. It leaked water in every rain storm, and filled full of water during that storm. It had to be towed to the dealership. It never ran for more that a few weeks at a time after that, and died completely after 2 years with only 4000 miles on it. We have not purchased a GM car since then, and don't plan to ever.
The 1999 version of hurricane Irene brought little wind, but was strong enough to get me a day off of work to play in the rain.....lots of rain.
There have been all sorts of complaints about the US Post Office, most of them justified, but on this occasion, they went above the call of duty to deliver the mail.
I was pointing at a rather large fish that swam down the sidewalk.
Most of these pictures were taken from the front porch of the house across the street from ours. Our house is the one in the middle of the large lake with the red minivan in the driveway. The blue bag conceals a 1966 Ford Mustang convertible which was parked on the highest ground in the yard. The green Pontiac behind the minivan was a brand new 1999 convertible. It leaked water in every rain storm, and filled full of water during that storm. It had to be towed to the dealership. It never ran for more that a few weeks at a time after that, and died completely after 2 years with only 4000 miles on it. We have not purchased a GM car since then, and don't plan to ever.
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Looks like a Sunfire? Lots of them (and Cavaliers) still on the road here, but can't say I've ever seen a convertible. Maybe that's the reason.🙂
jeff
Yes, it was a Sunfire, which is another name for a Cavalier. The convertibles were made by chopping the top of a finished hardtop by a GM subsidiary in Mexico. I'm not sure they were sold in all US states, or Canada, but they were pretty common here, and in California.
The older version Cavalier/Sunbird convertibles seemed to hold up well on south Florida's pothole infested roads, but the new POS was so flexible that the dealer would take it, tweak out every adjustment in the convertible mechanism, and align every gasket and weather strip, and drive it through the car wash with us in it to prove that it didn't leak, and we would leave, only to have it de-adjusted on the road home.
One day we picked up the car at the dealership, drove it home, and parked it in the driveway right next to the 1966 Mustang convertible. It rained that night, not a major storm, just a typical summer rainy night. The next morning the Pontiac had an inch of water in it while the 34 year old Mustang was dry. By this time the car was beginning to stink from being wet all the time and some of the electronics were getting intermittent from the humidity, so back to the dealer it went.
They were beginning to get sick of us and our complaint letters to GM. By this time GM had quit making the convertibles, and the excuses began to flow freely.....all convertibles leak....so I drove the 1966 Mustang to the Pontiac store and took the service manager through the car wash.
Finally they claimed that the car had been in an accident, the frame was bent, and they would no longer fix it. Pure BS and they knew it. It was agreed that they would "repair" the car one final time, replace the engine computer again, and replace the stinky and moldy carpet. After two years we put only 4400 miles on the car because it was either wet, or it wouldn't start until you let it dry out. We got it back from the Pontiac dealer, and kept it in a friends garage until we could trade it in on a 1999 Mustang convertible. The Mustang ran fine for 8 years during which it didn't leak and all I did was change the oil on time, and the battery once.
Yes, that was 16 years ago, so...Now that we live on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere, Sherri decided that we needed a 4WD vehicle before winter came since we pushed, winched, or abandoned ship and walked from both of our vehicles several times last year.....and she has a JEEP! (FWD)....So I sucked it up and went to the Chevy/Buick/Cadillac store along with every other car store near here. I will say that GM and Chrysler (Fiat) were both at the bottom of our list, even though I used to be a Mopar guy, and had good luck with 60's and early 70'S Chevys.
The prices of new cars knocked me over, so we decided that we were looking for a used car in the 3 to 5 year old range. My first choice was a 3 year old Subaru Outback, but someone else bought it before we could. After walking out of about 6 dealerships several times we got a 4 year old Honda on our third trip through the Nissan store.
The older version Cavalier/Sunbird convertibles seemed to hold up well on south Florida's pothole infested roads, but the new POS was so flexible that the dealer would take it, tweak out every adjustment in the convertible mechanism, and align every gasket and weather strip, and drive it through the car wash with us in it to prove that it didn't leak, and we would leave, only to have it de-adjusted on the road home.
One day we picked up the car at the dealership, drove it home, and parked it in the driveway right next to the 1966 Mustang convertible. It rained that night, not a major storm, just a typical summer rainy night. The next morning the Pontiac had an inch of water in it while the 34 year old Mustang was dry. By this time the car was beginning to stink from being wet all the time and some of the electronics were getting intermittent from the humidity, so back to the dealer it went.
They were beginning to get sick of us and our complaint letters to GM. By this time GM had quit making the convertibles, and the excuses began to flow freely.....all convertibles leak....so I drove the 1966 Mustang to the Pontiac store and took the service manager through the car wash.
Finally they claimed that the car had been in an accident, the frame was bent, and they would no longer fix it. Pure BS and they knew it. It was agreed that they would "repair" the car one final time, replace the engine computer again, and replace the stinky and moldy carpet. After two years we put only 4400 miles on the car because it was either wet, or it wouldn't start until you let it dry out. We got it back from the Pontiac dealer, and kept it in a friends garage until we could trade it in on a 1999 Mustang convertible. The Mustang ran fine for 8 years during which it didn't leak and all I did was change the oil on time, and the battery once.
Yes, that was 16 years ago, so...Now that we live on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere, Sherri decided that we needed a 4WD vehicle before winter came since we pushed, winched, or abandoned ship and walked from both of our vehicles several times last year.....and she has a JEEP! (FWD)....So I sucked it up and went to the Chevy/Buick/Cadillac store along with every other car store near here. I will say that GM and Chrysler (Fiat) were both at the bottom of our list, even though I used to be a Mopar guy, and had good luck with 60's and early 70'S Chevys.
The prices of new cars knocked me over, so we decided that we were looking for a used car in the 3 to 5 year old range. My first choice was a 3 year old Subaru Outback, but someone else bought it before we could. After walking out of about 6 dealerships several times we got a 4 year old Honda on our third trip through the Nissan store.
Ahhh, weather. We're going to be leaving here for a holiday starting in the US this Saturday. Normally, it'd be around 35C here heading up to 40C+ around new years', but this year it's cool-ish; around 28 today and forecast 23 on Saturday...not much warmer than NYC at the moment! Our specially purchased warm clothes might be too warm!
It almost never gets below 2C here in winter.
It almost never gets below 2C here in winter.
With average summer temperature level in Perth, you lot would turn brittle if it would.