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Imagine Your Car Falling Into Deep Water With You Still In It - AT Night ( S-C-W-O )
1/31/2012 12:36 pm |
Well. I drive over and near a lot of water in Tampa Bay, and did as a kid in Brunswick as well. There are a lot of bridges here. I keep a hammer in my car at all times. "Why," a friend asked, "do you keep a hammer under your seat?” +++ (NOV 1972-Brunswick, GA) As a high-schooler in 1972, a steering error (or an order from a river pilot that sent the vessel off course) sent the 11 thousand ton freighter, African Neptune crunching into the supports of the Sidney Lanier bridge (A Vertical Lift Bridge) just to the right/south of the open center span. Several spans fell into the Brunswick River, spilling a dozen or so cars and trucks waiting for the vertical span to lower - plummeting about 45 feet into the frigid dark water below. (At night water is tar-black—-I wondered how I’d know which way was 'up' if there was no light at the surface). Eight to maybe 10 people died as I recall. Some made it to safety. After days, even months, some who died couldn't be found. For months the bridge stayed down, but later it was repaired - in 1973;it was replaced with a new, taller & hurricane ready cable-stayed bridge in 2003. +++ I keep my pistol near Me at all times if possible. 'Nuff said. I keep a hammer in my car at all times. **Shrugging** In a car, a spill into water means a person has to escape through the window, not the door -- pressure has to equalize inside and outside the car (it has to be totally submerged) before it will open. Use the hammer (although feet/anything heavy enough will do) On A Window, Not The Indestructible Windshield. ( S-C-W-O ) Seat belt; children; window; OUT ( S-C-W-O ). Just in case. Seat belt; children; window; OUT. S-C-W-O Remember. Hm. Funny how certain memories come up. 40 years ago - really?  Sorrowful days, those...and...I'm glad to be alive. Breathe Deeply~ Peace imgs: BWJ News, Savannah Morning News, Wiki Doc_Sonar I advocate Simplicity, Patience & Compassion...and...More than Ever - "I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it." ~G Keillor |
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1/31/2012 3:00 pm |
although a recovering car-geek i still consider myself a professional motorist and have mentally rehearsed this and many other emergency driving scenarios. during the first few snows I re-acquaint myself with winter dynamics in mall parking lots plus have some fun while doing it. swedish rally driving traction control techniques lately ... Doc, your excellent post will help prepare our ALT friends should this unlikely situation occur. Myself included. *positive vibes from the head of Lake Ontario*
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 1/31/2012 5:22 pm |
although a recovering car-geek i still consider myself a professional motorist and have mentally rehearsed this and many other emergency driving scenarios. during the first few snows I re-acquaint myself with winter dynamics in mall parking lots plus have some fun while doing it. swedish rally driving traction control techniques lately ... Doc, your excellent post will help prepare our ALT friends should this unlikely situation occur. Myself included. *positive vibes from the head of Lake Ontario*  I love rehearsing in empty lots...did it when I lives in Kansas (no exper. on snow/ice)and do it now when it rains...  it's dynamics rehearsal, yes, annnd as u also say - its funnern' shit.  Glad to see u here again... BD P Doc_Sonar I advocate Simplicity, Patience & Compassion...and...More than Ever - "I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it." ~G Keillor
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1/31/2012 7:37 pm |
I was only 6 years old and I still remember/feel the horror that my brownie leader must have felt when her car went plunging into the bottomless winter river in the town I grew up in. She was terrified of water and swerved to miss a dog that ran in front of her car on the high way. I still think of her last minutes. Weird that as a child I think of them. And A few years ago my friend was coming back from her cottage. There was 4 in the car, she was in the back seat and everyone but the DD driver was passed out drunk. The person doing the parking forgot to lock the gate. The fairy hit the dock and a truck bumped into their car ... knocking it rolling into the river. They had a hard time getting out and their savings was another car held rescue workers who dove into the rigid November waters and rescued them. Unfortunately ... all I ever rehearse is PANIC and the feelings of FEAR Life isnt about how to survive the storm but how to dance in the rain
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1/31/2012 8:33 pm |
When I was a child, a woman's car was washed off an old-fashioned low concrete bridge on a backroad, during a flash flood. She managed to get herself and her children out of the car. But tragically, her two young children were washed out of her arms by the strong current and drown.  (The county did replace the bridge later with a newer, safer design.) I was in a single car wreck once, out in the country, far from any houses. Landed upside down, half in and half out of a ditch. Luckily, it wasn't full of water and wasn't a creek swollen with rain water. Lots of creeks and rivers around here and some flash flooding of them at times. A seatbelt won't release if you're hanging with your weight on it. Despite blood pouring from a head wound, I stayed calm and pushed to get my weight off it, so it would release me. Then I had to crawl out a window, as the dirt embankment and damage to the car wouldn't allow me to get the door open. Since then, a boxcutter-style knife clipped to the dash or visor has been in my cars, just incase of a need to cut a belt, if the buckle would jam. Another thing to keep in mind is, everything loose inside a car may slide, move, get tossed around, in a wreck. A velcro strap or something fastened around the base of the seat, bottom of the seatbelt or something, to keep that hammer within reach may be a good idea. "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly."
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2/2/2012 5:28 am |
I've sat in bumper-to-bumper traffic on the Peace Bridge rehearsing exactly this. Sometimes, depending on my livery, I'd practice S-D-W-O... D standing for dog, of course. Scary.
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2/3/2012 3:09 pm |
Just a big Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh. bridges and alligators???  xoxoxo I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not" Kurt Cobain
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2/5/2012 1:02 pm |
I was only 6 years old and I still remember/feel the horror that my brownie leader must have felt when her car went plunging into the bottomless winter river in the town I grew up in. She was terrified of water and swerved to miss a dog that ran in front of her car on the high way. I still think of her last minutes. Weird that as a child I think of them. And A few years ago my friend was coming back from her cottage. There was 4 in the car, she was in the back seat and everyone but the DD driver was passed out drunk. The person doing the parking forgot to lock the gate. The fairy hit the dock and a truck bumped into their car ... knocking it rolling into the river. They had a hard time getting out and their savings was another car held rescue workers who dove into the rigid November waters and rescued them. Unfortunately ... all I ever rehearse is PANIC and the feelings of FEAR Love happy endings, as in the 2nd story, though. Annnnnnnnnnnnd suppose I said that a person could rehearse Calm and Courage same as they did panic and fear, caro? How relieved &fortunate would a person be & feel, then? xoxo Doc_Sonar I advocate Simplicity, Patience & Compassion...and...More than Ever - "I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it." ~G Keillor
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2/11/2012 8:39 am |
When I was a child, a woman's car was washed off an old-fashioned low concrete bridge on a backroad, during a flash flood. She managed to get herself and her children out of the car. But tragically, her two young children were washed out of her arms by the strong current and drown. (The county did replace the bridge later with a newer, safer design.) I was in a single car wreck once, out in the country, far from any houses. Landed upside down, half in and half out of a ditch. Luckily, it wasn't full of water and wasn't a creek swollen with rain water. Lots of creeks and rivers around here and some flash flooding of them at times. A seatbelt won't release if you're hanging with your weight on it. Despite blood pouring from a head wound, I stayed calm and pushed to get my weight off it, so it would release me. Then I had to crawl out a window, as the dirt embankment and damage to the car wouldn't allow me to get the door open. Since then, a boxcutter-style knife clipped to the dash or visor has been in my cars, just incase of a need to cut a belt, if the buckle would jam. Another thing to keep in mind is, everything loose inside a car may slide, move, get tossed around, in a wreck. A velcro strap or something fastened around the base of the seat, bottom of the seatbelt or something, to keep that hammer within reach may be a good idea. TY Sarah! xoxo Doc_Sonar I advocate Simplicity, Patience & Compassion...and...More than Ever - "I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it." ~G Keillor
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2/11/2012 8:58 am |
I've sat in bumper-to-bumper traffic on the Peace Bridge rehearsing exactly this. Sometimes, depending on my livery, I'd practice S-D-W-O... D standing for dog, of course. Scary. I have a friend who to this day don't drive over the two bridges near Cairo, IL and Paducah, KY that each span the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers where they join...(very narrow!)He'd actually pull over ad make Me drive... xoxo Doc_Sonar I advocate Simplicity, Patience & Compassion...and...More than Ever - "I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it." ~G Keillor
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2/11/2012 10:08 am |
Just a big Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh. bridges and alligators??? xoxoxo Yes! The Sunshine Skyway is the biggest/tallest. and gators do fresh water, not salt, so ur safe enough in the bays... xoxoxo Doc_Sonar I advocate Simplicity, Patience & Compassion...and...More than Ever - "I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it." ~G Keillor
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