A few NA car parts - taking offers

Iva wrote:

> So, Pat, did you ever get that list done?
>
> Iva & Vixen
> 2004 Classic Red
> No more winkin' Miata

Hi Iva,

I received numerous super lowball offers and just a couple of reasonable
ones, so I am going to go ahead and let a sorta-friend buy both cars and
every single Miata part that I own.

This is assuming that he can come up with the money by October 5th,
which he should be able to swing.

So long everyone! I believe that next month is my 10 year anniversary
here, it's been fun most of the time.

Later,

Pat

"pws" > wrote
>
> So long everyone! I believe that next month is my 10 year anniversary
> here, it's been fun most of the time.
>

Wait! Come back! I was going to make espresso......
--
Ken Lyons '97 Brilliant Black/'90 Classic Red
Inside the Beltway

Ken Lyons wrote:

> Wait! Come back! I was going to make espresso......

Espresso sounds good!

Lurk mode is now on unless the topic gets too juicy. ;-)

If I find myself living in a city where driving is enjoyable again, I
might consider another Miata.

In a place with traffic as bad or worse than Austin, (all large American
cities that I have visited), a "point A to point B" car that I don't
care about and that is likely to keep me safer from the millions of
Texan redneck pickup truck drivers now makes more sense to me than a
small 2-seater.

The idea of not owning a car at all for a year or two is also having an
increasingly interesting appeal to me.

Pat

Hell, Pat....the newsgroup traffic is going to be cut in half if you lurk.

Ken

"pws" > wrote in message
...
> Ken Lyons wrote:
>
>> Wait! Come back! I was going to make espresso......
>
> Espresso sounds good!
>
> Lurk mode is now on unless the topic gets too juicy. ;-)
>
> If I find myself living in a city where driving is enjoyable again, I
> might consider another Miata.
>
> In a place with traffic as bad or worse than Austin, (all large American
> cities that I have visited), a "point A to point B" car that I don't care
> about and that is likely to keep me safer from the millions of Texan
> redneck pickup truck drivers now makes more sense to me than a small
> 2-seater.
>
> The idea of not owning a car at all for a year or two is also having an
> increasingly interesting appeal to me.
>
> Pat

Ken Lyons wrote:
> Hell, Pat....the newsgroup traffic is going to be cut in half if you lurk.
>
> Ken

Do you mean it's going to go down from one post every 2 days to one post
every 4 days? ;-)

Hope the people in Houston and the surrounding towns are OK. Three
million without power, ouch!

Pat

Pat wrote:
> Ken Lyons wrote:
>> Hell, Pat....the newsgroup traffic is going to be cut in half if
>> you lurk.
>>
>
> Do you mean it's going to go down from one post every 2 days to one
> post every 4 days? ;-)
>
> Hope the people in Houston and the surrounding towns are OK. Three
> million without power, ouch!
>

I've got friends in Spring, TX and the last I heard from them
(yesterday) was that the eye was projected to pass about 2 miles East
of their house. Hope they're okay!!

Iva & Vixen
2004 Classic Red
No more winkin' Miat

Iva wrote:

> I've got friends in Spring, TX and the last I heard from them
> (yesterday) was that the eye was projected to pass about 2 miles East
> of their house. Hope they're okay!!
>
> Iva & Vixen
> 2004 Classic Red
> No more winkin' Miata



I have been to the Spring, TX police department, maybe I have met your
friends?

Luckily it was to pick up my then-boss's purse that she lost and the
purse was dropped off there, not a mandatory trip wearing those pretty
steel bracelets. :-)

That was a fun day, I was only about 22 at the time and she let me drive
her almost-new Mercedes which drove quite nicely compared to my crappy
1987 Maxima. (bad, bad year for the Maxima).

Lots and lots of property damage to Galveston, not sure about Spring.
It will be a while before they have a death and injury count, but so far
things look like they could have been a lot worse.

Haven't heard from Chris D. since Friday, there is a chance that he is
one of the many people in Houston who is still without power.

Pat

On Sep 14, 8:53*am, pws > wrote:
> Iva wrote:
> > I've got friends in Spring, TX and the last I heard from them
> > (yesterday) was that the eye was projected to pass about 2 miles East
> > of their house. *Hope they're okay!!
>
> > Iva & Vixen
> > 2004 Classic Red
> > No more winkin' Miata
>
> I have been to the Spring, TX police department, maybe I have met your
> friends?
>
> Luckily it was to pick up my then-boss's purse that she lost and the
> purse was dropped off there, not a mandatory trip wearing those pretty
> steel bracelets. :-)
>
> That was a fun day, I was only about 22 at the time and she let me drive
> her almost-new Mercedes which drove quite nicely compared to my crappy
> 1987 Maxima. (bad, bad year for the Maxima).
>
> Lots and lots of property damage to Galveston, not sure about Spring.
> It will be a while before they have a death and injury count, but so far
> things look like they could have been a lot worse.
>
> Haven't heard from Chris D. since Friday, there is a chance that he is
> one of the many people in Houston who is still without power.
>
> Pat

I am in Sugar Land, no power since Friday night.

We did ok thru the storm here in the land of Sugar, as my son calls it.
Power went off in the early stages of the storm and was off for us about 24
hours. Phone/internet/satellite were off a couple days past that but have
been good the last couple days (flashed off a couple times this evening
though). Still very limited power at my work but working by sunlight and
laptop battery! We've been HUGELY blessed with unseasonably cool weather
since the storm but that seems to be going away gradually.

As for Spring, they got it pretty good but I would think there would be a
pretty good chance they are powered up by now or real soon. Crews are
working their way north (and all directions, I suppose) out from town. They
say Conroe may be another week or two. Lots still w/o power. Driving is
quite an adventure on the surface streets as MANY people have NO idea how to
treat an intersection as a 4-way stop! Lots of traffic lights still down /
off.

Later,
Chris
99BBB

> wrote in message
...
On Sep 14, 8:53 am, pws > wrote:
> Iva wrote:
> > I've got friends in Spring, TX and the last I heard from them
> > (yesterday) was that the eye was projected to pass about 2 miles East
> > of their house. Hope they're okay!!
>
> > Iva & Vixen
> > 2004 Classic Red
> > No more winkin' Miata
>
> I have been to the Spring, TX police department, maybe I have met your
> friends?
>
> Luckily it was to pick up my then-boss's purse that she lost and the
> purse was dropped off there, not a mandatory trip wearing those pretty
> steel bracelets. :-)
>
> That was a fun day, I was only about 22 at the time and she let me drive
> her almost-new Mercedes which drove quite nicely compared to my crappy
> 1987 Maxima. (bad, bad year for the Maxima).
>
> Lots and lots of property damage to Galveston, not sure about Spring.
> It will be a while before they have a death and injury count, but so far
> things look like they could have been a lot worse.
>
> Haven't heard from Chris D. since Friday, there is a chance that he is
> one of the many people in Houston who is still without power.
>
> Pat

I am in Sugar Land, no power since Friday night.

"Chris D'Agnolo" > wrote:

> We did ok thru the storm here in the land of Sugar, as my son
> calls it. Power went off in the early stages of the storm and was
> off for us about 24 hours. Phone/internet/satellite were off a
> couple days past that but have been good the last couple days
> (flashed off a couple times this evening though).

Ike went on north and did damage all along his path all the way to
Chicago! My son, in Morrow, Ohio, still may be w/o power or, worse
yet, cable TV! Hundreds of trees are down...

From Sunday's paper:

Hurricane remnants blamed for at least 13 deaths in Midwest
Sept. 14, 2008 11:55 PM
MUNSTER, Ind. - The remnants of Hurricane Ike swept into the Midwest
Sunday with powerful winds and flooding that were being blamed for at
least 13 deaths. Thousands have been evacuated and more than a million
homes and businesses lost electrical power.

Cook County in Illinois was placed under a state of emergency as thigh-
high water prompted dozens of boat rescues in Chicago.

The death toll from Ike rose to 28 people in eight states extending
from the hurricane-pounded Gulf Coast to the storm-battered Midwest.

Four people died in floodwaters and high winds in Indiana. A teacher
and his father were sucked into a culvert and drowned Sunday morning
while trying to rescue a 10-year-old boy from a flooded ditch in
Chesterton in northwest Indiana, the state Department of Natural
Resources said. Falling trees were blamed for two deaths in southern
Indiana.

Three people died in Missouri, including a 21-year-old woman who was
likely swept away by rising floodwaters while trying to help another
man, authorities said. Two died in the St. Louis area - a woman struck
by a tree limb and an elderly man found dead in a residence's flooded
backyard. Authorities suspect the man drowned.

In Tennessee, two men sitting in a golf cart on the 16th hole of a
Nashville golf course were killed when a tree fell over on them Sunday
morning, fire department spokesman Ricky Taylor said.

+++++ the following is where my kid lives+++++++++

Strong winds were blamed for three deaths in Ohio. Two motorcyclists
were killed Sunday when a tree toppled onto them at a state park in
southwest Ohio, said state Department of Natural Resources spokesman
Jason Fallon. and a woman wan killed when a tree crashed into her home
in Hamilton County, just north of Cincinnati.

One death was reported in Arkansas, where a 29-year-old man was killed
when a tree fell on a mobile home as he was preparing to leave,
authorities said.

The remnants of Ike dumped as much as 6 to 8 inches of rain in parts of
Indiana, Illinois and Missouri, spawned a tornado Arkansas that damaged
several buildings, and delivered hurricane-force winds to Ohio, forcing
Cincinnati's main airport to temporarily shut down.

Flooding in Missouri closed the street in front of St. Louis' famed
Gateway Arch.

About 40 Indiana National Guard troops were activated Sunday afternoon
to assist with the evacuation of up to 5,000 residents and to help
safeguard property in the northwest town of Munster, Staff Sgt. Jeff
Lowry said in a news release.

Power outages darkened more than a million homes and businesses in Ohio
and Kentucky.

More than 680,000 Duke Energy customers were without power Sunday night
in southwest Ohio and northern Kentucky in the biggest outage in the
company's history, said Duke Energy spokeswoman Kathy Meinke.
"It's going to be quite extensive," Meinke said. "Over 90 percent of
our customers are without service."

More than 354,000 customers were without power in central Ohio, said
American Electric Power spokesman Jeff Rennie. About 310,000 Ohio
Edison customers were in the dark in northeast Ohio, said spokeswoman
Robin Patton.

In Chicago, Saturday's rainfall of 6.64 inches at O'Hare International
Airport set a record for a single day. The previous record was 6.49
inches, recorded on Aug. 14, 1987.
Cook County Board President Todd Stroger declared a countywide state of
emergency Sunday, and officials said they would ask Gov. Rod
Blagojevich to issue a disaster declaration for Chicago and Cook
County.

In Missouri, winds as high as 60 mph and torrential rains of up to 7
inches raised new concerns about swelling rivers. Major flooding was
expected along the Mississippi from Ste. Genevieve to Cape Girardeau by
late this week, the National Weather Service said.
Strong winds prompted the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International
Airport to evacuate its control tower and cancel about 40 flights
before resuming air traffic, airport spokesman Ted Bushelman said.
Strong gusts ripped off part of the roof from a Delta Airlines hangar
and damaged another airport building, Bushelman said. He said winds
were up to 74 mph.

In Middletown, Ohio, gusts knocked down a tree, which landed on a
nearby house and suspended a truck about 8 feet in the air, resident
Barbara Ray said.

Warren County emergency officials said their 911 center was shut down,
likely due to wind damage.





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