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I have family in Tampa. Multiple properties. They've all left. Furniture lifted as high in the house as possible, shutters, electricity off, and other typical preparations.
Thankfully for them, it looks like the eye is hitting south of Tampa, which means the winds will push the water out of the bay, and the flooding shouldn't be too bad for them. Not the case for folks south of the eye though, that storm surge is going to end up somewhere. |
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Trying to sift through this thread. My 2008 e91 (N52 with 6AT) has 347,261 miles. The wagon has been great with clean Blackstone oil reports, but beginning to look for something newer. Perhaps a PHEV?
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Today, 03:35 AM | #9400 |
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Ok all you guys with connections to Florida in one way or another Milton has been downgraded to Cat 1 after it hit the coast at Cat 4 losing force as it continued.
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PHEV's with a very small (and much safer) lithium battery to take you without engine for around 35 miles, and a seperate normal battery for engine running. The only thing I see here is if you should get critically low on gas then switch to your hopefully fully charged electric to get you by to find a gas station. |
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According to data from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), electric vehicles (EVs) are less likely to catch fire than gasoline-powered or hybrid vehicles:
Vehicle type Fires per 100,000 vehicles sold Electric vehicle 25 Gasoline-powered vehicle 1,530 Hybrid vehicle 3,475 https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/enviro...less-fire-risk |
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I do think that an older vehicle is more likely to catch fire than a newer one and the average age of an EV on the road is far far lower than the average age of a gas car.
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For posterity.
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I've seen multiple with my own eyes...and the evidence of many others.
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How could a thing that holds 20+ gallons of COMBUSTABLE gasoline and pumps it through a bunch of tubes then ignites it on FIRE over and over again… ever catch on fire?? Doesn’t make any sense. |
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