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Old 01-16-2022, 2:51pm   #1
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Palm fronds and lawn furniture? Was there damage?
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As always, these things are attracted to mobile home parks. Several were vaporized and people are homeless. Definitely not tornado alley type stuff, but enough to disrupt lives. That's the 2nd destructive tornado in Fort Myers in 3 weeks...in the winter. WTF?
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As always, these things are attracted to mobile home parks. Several were vaporized and people are homeless. Definitely not tornado alley type stuff, but enough to disrupt lives. That's the 2nd destructive tornado in Fort Myers in 3 weeks...in the winter. WTF?
Damn. Bizarre.
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Climate change. Paying more taxes will fix it, or so I've been told.
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Climate change. Paying more taxes will fix it, or so I've been told.
Yeah well, all the Arctic ice is melting because it's only 40 below up there. Lucky for us Antarctic sea ice has been increasing for the last 40 years so we won't have to worry about dying of heat stroke for the next couple days because they offset each other.
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Crazy weather here this Winter. Damn tornado hit right where we had dinner last night. Not a monster storm but weird to see tornadoes here, much less Winter.

Big thanks again for watching the kiddos! They had a blast with you guys!
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Why are mobile home parks magnets for tornadoes? This is about 10 miles from my house.

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Why are mobile home parks magnets for tornadoes? This is about 10 miles from my house.

WTF, HOW??? talk about krazy, get air to whirl in such a small spot and get it to be SO fast that the density of basically nothing is somehow SO fast as to kill off a HOUSE??? let alone a mobile home, but TREES??? Lord love a duck....
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Why are mobile home parks magnets for tornadoes? This is about 10 miles from my house.

Were you visiting your girlfriend? I saw a black C6 in the video...
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Were you visiting your girlfriend? I saw a black C6 in the video...
Black C6 is off of the road until I get new shocks. The stock ones have collapsed. Gonna replace with Koni Yellow single adjustable ones...same as on race car.
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Koni is good stuff! Put them on my Z06 and it made a world of difference
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Even with bad shocks, that ole pig got around the track fairly well

I'm still pondering the best approach to that box just past the halfway point.
I was coming in too far to the right and was jacking up my turn in the box.

I did have a killer instructor though.
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Even with bad shocks, that ole pig got around the track fairly well

I'm still pondering the best approach to that box just past the halfway point.
I was coming in too far to the right and was jacking up my turn in the box.

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Shocks ordered! Next time you come out it will handle a whole lot better.
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Shocks ordered! Next time you come out it will handle a whole lot better.
Need to figure out snagging a track beater to keep down here or I'll have to pay depreciation fees to you.

It'll have to share an under-size 2 car garage with the Mazduh.
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It'll have to share an under-size 2 car garage with the Mazduh.
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Now you are talking! Get one of the Twins (BRZ/GT86/FRS) and have a blast. Not a lot of power, but one of the best autocross cars out there.
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It'll have to share an under-size 2 car garage with the Mazduh.
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You need to consider taking the Feb 12th novice school in the C8.
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