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Big_K

(237 posts) Sun Aug 27, 2017, 11:03 PM Aug 2017

What Texans Do When It's Flooded And They Can't Drive Their Pickups

(This is from my old grad school roommate, who was as crazy then as he as now. And has barely aged in 30 years.)

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What Texans Do When It's Flooded And They Can't Drive Their Pickups (Original Post) Big_K Aug 2017 OP

What the... brush Aug 2017 #1

Well that's a good way to get sick. mucifer Aug 2017 #2

I remember swimming in the streets after a hurricane hit nadine_mn Aug 2017 #6

Spend the night at a pickup joint? TheBlackAdder Aug 2017 #3

wow great larwdem Aug 2017 #4

Well, Kilmer does have some good car repair videos dalton99a Aug 2017 #5

He is a fantastic mechanic Big_K Aug 2017 #7

Good thing there weren't any sunken cars/semis in that viaduct... Gidney N Cloyd Aug 2017 #8

Do they swim in septic tanks, too? Dave Starsky Aug 2017 #9

brush

(61,033 posts)

1. What the...

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Sun Aug 27, 2017, 11:06 PM

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mucifer

(25,729 posts)

2. Well that's a good way to get sick.

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Sun Aug 27, 2017, 11:08 PM

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nadine_mn

(3,702 posts)

6. I remember swimming in the streets after a hurricane hit

Reply to mucifer (Reply #2)

Mon Aug 28, 2017, 02:16 AM

Aug 2017

I was 5-6 yrs old...we lived in Alexandria, Louisiana. The coast got hit with the storm, we got floods and it turned the streets into rivers...and a bunch of us kids were swimming in them. Looking back now, good lord how did I not catch some type of horrible disease.

TheBlackAdder

(29,981 posts)

3. Spend the night at a pickup joint?

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Sun Aug 27, 2017, 11:12 PM

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larwdem

(908 posts)

4. wow great

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Mon Aug 28, 2017, 12:31 AM

Aug 2017

fucking stupid!!

dalton99a

(95,296 posts)

5. Well, Kilmer does have some good car repair videos

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Mon Aug 28, 2017, 12:34 AM

Aug 2017

Big_K

(237 posts)

7. He is a fantastic mechanic

Reply to dalton99a (Reply #5)

Mon Aug 28, 2017, 03:00 PM

Aug 2017

and clients just love him. Good thing, since neither one of us has really cashed in on those advanced anthropology degrees....

Gidney N Cloyd

(19,847 posts)

8. Good thing there weren't any sunken cars/semis in that viaduct...

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Mon Aug 28, 2017, 03:30 PM

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Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)

9. Do they swim in septic tanks, too?

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Mon Aug 28, 2017, 03:48 PM

Aug 2017

Because that's kind of what that's like.

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