FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOU MOTHER NATURE, FUCK YOU

[Gutboy Barrelhouse]

I am looking forward to the Wed 7:30am story from Schild. Should be in interesting read.

Sorry in advance for how they will treat you.

[sinij]

if they total it out see if you can buy it back at scrap prices, it's still a friggen car in sound mechanical condition.

This is the plan. Apparently a totaled car (from State Farm) costs $200. Time to drive a beater Type-S with a perfect engine. Hur. I'm gonna cruise downtown and pick up some vagrants and a big bag of shitty weed. Wooooooooooooo.

You have the plan. Why are you bitching again? Get going on dent removal, spend insurance money on whores and crack.

If you feel extra lazy get whores remove dents for some of your crack.

[schild]

Status report: Totaled.

The lady was super nice actually, it was an older lady who has been doing this for like 30 years.

When we went to check on electronics the hood wouldn't open, which meant new hood! Every single panel would have to be repaired/replaced. Scratches on glass, etc. Basically the only thing left on the car that was worth keeping according to her was the engine, frame, and tires/breaks. /sigh

[Yegolev]

Those are my three favorite parts.

[Salamok]

So are you going to be able to keep it as well?  Both my inspections turned out fairly well (no $$ amounts yet).  

Roof adjuster agreed to a new roof, new gutters replacing the weather stripping on all my windows, repair 1 broken window, power washing and painting my arbor/porch area.  

Car adjuster said new hood, feather in the paint on the front sides so that the newly painted hood wouldn't appear less faded, paintless dent repair on everything else (75-100 dings over every portion of my truck except the tailgate).  If I get a decent check (2k or more) I'll probably cash it and just cancel my comprehensive coverage.

[Sky]

Basically the only thing left on the car that was worth keeping according to her was the engine, frame, and tires/breaks.

I remember when that was a good thing.

[schild]

Basically the only thing left on the car that was worth keeping according to her was the engine, frame, and tires/breaks.

I remember when that was a good thing.

What, back when you were a flintstone?

[Salamok]

just think if you get to keep it you can strip all that shit off of it and have the most badass gocart on the planet!

[schild]

An 800 pound car with a K20A2. I'm pretty sure it would take off.

[Salamok]

thats the spirit! Drive it around for a week or 2 stripped down to the frame then rebuild the body case modder style ;P

edit: reinvest some of your total out money in sheet metal and a decent welder.

edit #2 (exciting times): Get drunk and go watch animal house for teh protips.

[schild]

Yea, no. I'll just sell the engine.

[Sky]

What, back when you were a flintstone?

Yes. Some sheet metal and bucket seats away from having a custom ride.

[Salamok]

If I had any extra cash atm i'd buy it just for fun.

[Polysorbate80]

Install a 5-point harness and go see how many times you can roll that sumbitch 

[Draegan]

I was in NJ this past weekend. Even the "nice" parts are shit holes.

Where were you that was "nice" and a shit hole?

[rattran]

Just get someone to buy this and transfer your parts over.

[schild]

I was in NJ this past weekend. Even the "nice" parts are shit holes.

Where were you that was "nice" and a shit hole?

Short Hills? I mean, unless you really like soccer moms and suburban wastelands.

[Draegan]

Short hills is really on the edge of where the "farmland and nice area" meets "'Soylent Green is made of people!' overcrowded areas.

[sinij]

An 800 pound car with a K20A2. I'm pretty sure it would take off.

Part your car, or find one with blown engine and swap good parts.

[schild]

A little over $10k after deductible and taxes.

[Salamok]

maybe that will hold you over while you finish that flash game you put on hold for Demon's Souls

[schild]

Going back and forth with the insurance company over $1,600 more dollars. Turns out the Type-S has some killer resale value.

[Salamok]

They letting you keep the vehicle?

[schild]

I can buy it back for what looks like $200.

Already in touch with a guy that swaps engines for ricers, he's put it up on the web. Apparently people don't often give up their K20A2 engines! Who'd have thought?!

He said I should be able to fetch anywhere from $4-$8k for it. If I somehow magically got $8k (which I won't), I'd have gotten about $18-$20k total (depending on how insurance comes back). Which would mean I only lost $5-$7k on a 7 year old car.

[Nerf]

So the insurance company is going to sell you an asset that they rightfully own, that is worth at least $4,000 to $8,000 (not including the other shit like exhaust, suspension, etc, etc) for $200.

And people wonder why insurance companies aren't doing all that great these days.

[Lucas]

yeah, this is how fucked mother nature is, sometimes. Earthquake in Italy at 3.30am :(



50 deaths and between 40.000-50.000 ppl who fled their homes so far. The Earthquake hit the fragile, hillside little towns around l'Aquila, in centre Italy. But still tons and tons of rubbles, collapsed buildings...geeze.

[Teleku]

Hope this hasn't effected Falconeer in any way.

[Strazos]

Rome is more South. Hope he's ok.

[Lucas]

People in Rome sensed the tremor as well, yes, but no real damages, or people wounded. Hell, basically it was sensed all across centre Italy (I live in the northern part).

Nothing really more to say. The images speak for themselves and they are just as sad and give you a sense of helplessness as others we have seen in other circumstance; one of the stories that are most impressive is a little town (actually, more like a village) called Onna, just 350 inhabitants, 39 of them killed by the earthquake (dunno if I should say "so far" or not, unfortunately). 70-80% of the buildings destroyed, all the others severely damaged; yes, it basically exists no more, and it gives me chills imagining it now at night, immersed in total silence. There will be of course time to (unfortunately) debate about how many of those houses (speaking about all the areas affected) were built, their materials etc., but for now I must say our government and all the people involved are acting quite swiftly and efficiently, or at least it is what I get by following the situation on the news.

But people SUCKS. Minutes and then hours after the earthquake, all the buzz was on facebook, with groups created about the earthquake, ppl excited about following all the stuff live on Twitter and all this shit. One blogger even calling it "Earthquake 2.0". What the hell, rot.
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By the way, while I'm writing this, a news arrived about a 98 yrs old woman just rescued alive after almost 30 hours under the rubble. It seemed she was reasonably lucid, and the hilarious thing is that, when she was asked "how did you manage to get through all of that", she answered "well, I had my sewing kit near, so I kept sewing". I mean, yeah, it sounds SO surreal that it is probably true 

[Ragnoros]

http://www.kongregate.com/games/aeiowu/effing-hail 

[schild]

Made by Pogo/for Pogo. Which means it's someone in Austin. :( I wasn't aware there was hail that bad at the Pogo/Bioware offices.

[apocrypha]

Berlusconi has said that "the 17,000 people made homeless by Monday's earthquake should think of themselves as being on a "camping weekend"."

 

[schild]

Haha wow awesome.

[Oban]

Of all the governments I have to deal with, the Italian one is my favourite.

[Lum]

Oh hai thread.

We were at the epicenter of the Hailpocalypse and got softball-sized hail at the office. This is from the inside of my car during the storm. Getting TO the car was... unpleasant.



The car was battered so badly the oh-shit-we're-in-an-accident deadman fuel valve switches triggered and the car wouldn't start (until I remembered said switches existed). Total damage: close to $5000. Right now 3/4 of our office parking lot is rentals.

So today: vultures.