Is that really you, Art? Glad you stopped in. I hear you've had some nasty weather on the Island.

 

Morning Art, long time and it is great to see you. I hope that everything is going well for you.

 

I like my Super Cab but it is tight in the back seat for an adult to ride comfortably. That is the reason why my wife has told me that the next one will be a crew cab. It will give more room for rear seat passengers whether they be human or the four legged kind I really do not haul much so a 5.5' should work for me. As far as trim level, it would be a XLT or possibly a Lariat. The one nice plus of the Lariat is the leather interior and I figure that will hold up better than the cloth which my driver's seat is all tore up from the material wearing out.

 

and pardon me, good morning everyone and welcome to FRIDAY!!!! Got some snow flurries falling and it is 28*. Sounds like the weekend is going to be on the cold side.

 

I like an 8' bed. But, most of the time it's empty si not really needed.

Off to NC. TTYL

 

A 8' bed on a crew cab would be a royal PIA to try and park due to the length. It would be like driving an aircraft carrier on the road

Have a safe trip!

 

Yeah, we had some fun on the Island with Sandy... Lindenhurst where I live was hit pretty hard - some people actually lost their houses... as in, off the foundation.

My sister who lives in Amityville had 7 feet of water in her yard, which equates to 3 feet on the ground floor of her house. Her fuel oil tank, front stoop/deck, and 21' boat on stands in the back yard, well, they all floated away. Glad she was smart and left for higher ground.

I had a top of a tree come off a neighbor's tree and slam into the back of my house, broke a stud in the wall and cracked the sheetrock in my bedroom. What a sound. Cat didn't come out from behind the couch for days. I have 11 60-70 foot tall oak trees in my yard, nothing came down from them - the neighbor's tree, same size, top was just twisting in the wind until it broke off, went between a tree in my yard, and my garage/workshop, NOT in a straight line, to smack into the back of my house.

Then, a few days later, a Nor'Easter and snow, all the while we can't get gasoline.

I go to Home Depot on the third day afterward, get a 7500W generator - won't start. Something wrong with the carb. Go back to another Home Depot later that night, get another 6500W genny, and it works. Wire it into the house, get it going, next night, the power comes back

All the while, my Verizon FIOS was working on battery, and I was running my WiFi on an inverter for 4 days. Had Internet, phone, and even local HD TV on the wire. Everyone else with Cablevision was out, even after the power came back on, for days afterwards.

Get 20 inches of snow from the blizzard, glad I have my Superduty.

The other day, get another Nor'Easter overnight, the cat again goes into hiding because he still remembered the sound of the wind from last time ...

Amazing stuff. Makes me want to move Upstate - not in the flood plains

 

hey yorkers....

 

All I can say Art is wow and glad that you are here. That is some very scary chit right there and I am glad to see that you faired well.

 

Hey there 'Ginian

 

I came through rather unscathed... many other people here got really hammered and aren't back to normal whatsoever.

I don't have a lot of sympathy for the ones who live right on the water... I'll lay that right out there. And absolutely zero for the ones that didn't evacuate when they were under a mandatory evacuation order.

One guy I work with lives in Long Beach. He was screwing boards to the inside of the back garage door while looking at waves through the window coming up more than halfway up the door. People are strange.

 

I agree with you on the sympathy aspect. If you are told to get the heck out, then you should follow the orders....PERIOD!

 

Morning all.

 

howdy all,
i can agree with art on that one.

 

Morning Shaun and all!