OMFG! {{{{{{Maria & Family}}}}}}
What a craptastic year this is turning out to be.
Mal: Hell, this job I would pull for free. Zoe: Can I have your share? Mal: No. Zoe: If you die, can I have your share? Mal: Yes.
'The Train Job'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
quester - Sep 08, 2011 3:30:51 pm PDT #24958 of 30001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Nora Deirdre - Sep 08, 2011 3:42:11 pm PDT #24959 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
I'm ready to cry just thinking about it; I cannot imagine what my sister is feeling. And not to mention people in the region who are losing everything they own, including their houses. It's unfathomable.
Oh, Maria. I'm so sorry. It's so hard. I hope and pray that the community can band together and get through this. It's all you can hope for when nature devastates everything in its wake. Ugh.
Lee - Sep 08, 2011 3:44:24 pm PDT #24960 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Oh Maria, I am so sorry for you and your family.
Ditto the car, Kathy, but I am glad you are okay,
msbelle - Sep 08, 2011 3:45:11 pm PDT #24961 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Kathy I do love my ford focus and a 2008 should be on that range.
Cass - Sep 08, 2011 3:47:53 pm PDT #24962 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Also, Kathy be sure that you are okay. Don't assume that you always have headaches and can ignore the bruises only to realize several days later that you were big-time concussed. *cough* For instance.
Your safety and health is the most important thing.
Allyson - Sep 08, 2011 3:48:55 pm PDT #24963 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I feel kind of like a dick. MRJ just emailed me.
I think I'm kind of not-in-my-right-mind, lately, when it comes to reasonable expectations of other humans. Was I ever in my right mind, though?
Maria - Sep 08, 2011 3:59:00 pm PDT #24964 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Kathy, it's a 2 door coupe right? Blue Book is worthless--you'd be more accurate by pulling a number out of your ass. Edmunds true value pricing (trade in, private party, dealer retail) is much more on point. Wholesale is coming in around $9-10K, so I wouldn't accept any less than $11,500 from the insurance company. I'd try to get $12,000+ out of them.
You're going to have a tough time finding a used car to match your criteria. The used car market is very strong right now because there's no supply, especially for good condition, fuel efficient, low mileage cars. I'd expect to pay about 2 grand more to replace your car with the same 2008 model that has 35,000 miles.
le nubian - Sep 08, 2011 4:00:39 pm PDT #24965 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Maria,
Just wow. Good thoughts are heading your way. Those are water proof. Maybe they can shield the restaurant. Good gravy.
It has been raining like a mojo in the midwest too.
sarameg - Sep 08, 2011 4:01:29 pm PDT #24966 of 30001
Fucking Lee. Not ours. The rainy one.
Hil R. - Sep 08, 2011 4:01:44 pm PDT #24967 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be able to make it to the conference I'd been planning on going to this weekend. Way too many flooded places between here and there. Disappointing, but not the end of the world -- there were some people who were going to be there who I really wanted to talk to and get some idea for research and let them know that I'm interested in the research they're doing, but I can email them, I guess. I'd also planned on stopping at Farm Sanctuary on the way back, but now I'm thinking I can go there the weekend before Thanksgiving, when they have a party for the turkeys.