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Old 03-20-2024, 7:19pm   #1
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Can't really dodge them
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Old 03-20-2024, 7:23pm   #2
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Those were some serious rolling stones
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Man. Flashbacks.

Coming over Wolf Creek pass in '77 headed for Durango. Storming like crazy. Probably riding in the clean new Monarch with the white landau. Saw a room-sized boulder come off the hill and absolutely clean out a car. Luckily trees caught the car about 50 feet down, or they would have been goners.
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Crushed it!
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So you can watch the road ahead for rocks laying in the road.
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Yaddy was there?
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So you can have your phone ready to video trucks getting crushed.
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Oh em gee I just got a great idea for my driveway. A sign that says "falling rocks" with an arrow pointing up.
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Waste of tax dollars, as said, you cannot avoid the falling ones.
Alert drivers need no help seeing in-the-road objects.
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They also have those signs instructing the motorist to do posi burnouts. Which is strange because not all cars have a limited slip differential. I'm lucky and all of mine do, except my latest GTO. But still, people seem to get pissed when I slow down at each of these signs and do a burnout. Name: POSI.jpg Views: 43 Size: 6.4 KB
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They also have those signs instructing the motorist to do posi burnouts. Which is strange because not all cars have a limited slip differential. I'm lucky and all of mine do, except my latest GTO. But still, people seem to get pissed when I slow down at each of these signs and do a burnout. Attachment 98763
I like those signs....lets me know Im in the clear to do a burnout.
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They also have those signs instructing the motorist to do posi burnouts. Which is strange because not all cars have a limited slip differential. I'm lucky and all of mine do, except my latest GTO. But still, people seem to get pissed when I slow down at each of these signs and do a burnout. Attachment 98763
Do you also pay attention to those STOP signs out there! AKA Spin Tires On Pavement!
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So you can watch the road ahead for rocks laying in the road.
EXACTLY Having lived in Oak Creek Canyon 4 miles north of Sedona for 14 years I encountered these several times with rocks sometimes as large as a VW bug.
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I could see how these would roll down a hill
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Oh em gee I just got a great idea for my driveway. A sign that says "falling rocks" with an arrow pointing up.
Will there be a roadrunner and coyote involved?
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those signs are there to let Yaddy know where he can find new driveway accessories.
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EXACTLY Having lived in Oak Creek Canyon 4 miles north of Sedona for 14 years I encountered these several times with rocks sometimes as large as a VW bug.
The drive from Sedona north on 89A is fantastic. As was the drive on 89A from Prescott north thru Jerome.
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