First measurable rainfall in almost 6 months paralyzed SoCal last night. More than 1/2 inch combined with cyclonic winds of almost 20mph caused major damage. Film at 11

Ah yes, the day after. So Cal's ultimate leak test for the 914.

ooh... 1/2 inch and 20 mph!!!

Waaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!

Try 20 inches and 110 mph!!!!!!

But I can imagine how everyone freaked out!

Yup....woke me up....freaked out the cats and dogs......the Daschunds are puppies and never saw rain before.....got Frank and Wyld Thang under cover. The poor cab had to endure it, the lower garage is still getting drywalled....

Wifes car left out last night and suffered. Will require large amounts of fresh water and undetermined amount of cleaning agent to recover.

1/2" and 20 mph! Oh the humanity! Poor devils, our prayers are with you.

i think the 1/2" flash flood swept my teener away. why me?

yeah, i heard ambulances driving by all night ...

seriously, not kidding ...
Andy

Well, my teener is in the garage and stayed dry, the truck got a much needed bath from the rainfall. It still looks like its going to rain some more. Life is good.

OMG Rain! Well I am enjoying the first snowfall of the year here at 4500' in the high desert. It's only mid October usually we get a couple more weeks. Oh well guess the snowmobile will come out early. Would be nice to be able to drive the 914 once I get the brakes done. It will melt for sure but this is a little ridiculous. Wish I had my camera with me everything is white.
It was 70 yesterday!

didnt have a much needed car tarp...solution: plywood to cover the engine hatch havent had time to install the rain tray...

I forgot to cover the carbs last night. Anything I should do before I try and start the car? Oh yeah...my roof leaked! What the hell is that all about? Why doesn't someone tell me these things? LOL!!
Cheers, Elliot

managed to get mine in the garage for the storm. i ordered them fandangled carb hats from james. ordered a little late i guess. also, building a GT lid...hmmmm.....

All the water on the ground made it uncomfortable for me to sit and work on my car, so I didnt... i just enjoyed a cup of hot chocolate while I wait for my rocker arm stud.

my car is under two layers of plastic.

this sucks.

i hate the fucking rain.

now i drive the truck everywhere.

this sucks.

i'm gonna move to some less-rainy state.

I put the car cover and a tarp on yesterday, so it's cool.

Maybe I'll get one of those port-o-garages someday.

KT

It hasnt rained here all summer, I think we need it and the less we drive right now, the less we spend on gas which is outfrikenrageous in price. You cant tell me there is a shortage of oil, it is all based on greed. The oil companies are gouging us and its just wrong. Time to build a car that gets 150 MPG and sell the plans to the public domain. See what they do then.

LOL, Scott, aren't you building a V8 914? Sounds like gas mileage wasn't your first concern.

The entire commodity system is built on greed. That is how it is supposed to be.
They try and charge as much as possible.
The competition keeps that from happening in a balanced supply/demand system. Unfortunately the "government" had meddled and screwed up the system so it isn't as balanced as it should be.

No, it wasnt on my list of concerns about the gas mileage. It is more of a weekend drive around car. Something to waste my time and money on and have a little fun in the process. I know that some people rely on thier cars as daily transportation but I cannot afford to rely on a 30+ year old car. Hopefully this car will be as reliable as a late model car but I will never trust it as such. That is why if I need to go a long distance and I am going to drive it hard there, I will trailer it. That way if it breaks down on me, I can just tow it home and fix it again. I love these cars.

Biodiesel could be our salvation. Better yet, straight new or used vegetable oil. McTeener-style. It's renewable, but too hard for the gubumint to regulate prolly

Steam powered and burn trash! Of course the scrubber required for The Clean Air Act would make it economically unfeasible and we would just burn fossil fuel instead.

Here's a strategy I used to offset the price of gasoline, so far it's worked like a champ:

A couple years back I saw this coming (and posted my opinion about it on rennlist and the bird site) and sank every penny I had invested (including 401K) split into three different oil company stocks which were way undervalued at the time IMO.
Do some checking on history of Tesoro (TSO) and Valero (VLO) and you'll see what I mean.

During that time my investment has almost tripled and instead of getting upset every time the price of gas or crude jumps, I say yea baby!

I made as much in oil stocks as I have at my job over the past three years. I just wish I could have started with more.
The hard part now is trying to figure out how long to ride this train. I should jump ship now but I'm a greedy bastard.