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Never Pass Up an Opportunity to Flee for Your Life
Several years ago a young person of my acquaintance came close to death by drowning.
Her first mistake was trusting her local government and the local dam authority to get anything right.
When the Harvey rains came the local government, via the usual media, urged the residents not to evacuate because they would only clog the roads and get in the way. Besides, the rain wouldn’t be all that bad.
Then, in the dark hours of the night, the dam authority upriver opened up the dam floodgates. They dam well didn’t bother telling anyone.
Even as the waters rose to the first floor of her building at dawn the local government kept telling people to shelter in place. The local government kept saying this even as the crew of a rescue boat told the young person of my acquaintance that there might not be another.
She was passed along a sequence of boats and a Houston Airport Authority dump truck in wind and rain, and at one point with others was wading waist-deep in foul and flowing waters, fearing at one point that she might have to release her two kittens and herself to the flood, giving them and herself to God.
At the end of this metaphorical chain she found shelter in a church. A few days later she wisely took a tetanus shot.
When we were able to able to drive through the muck to survey her apartment – there was much looting in the area – we found her car, well-mudded over and irretrievably ruined.
We could not open the doors to sort among her sodden belongings because her car was one of those whose features are entirely electric. The horrible reality then occurred to us – if many models of cars hit the water, you can’t get out. The door bolts are electrical, not mechanical.
You can’t get out.
You will scream out the horrible end of your life trapped in your car because some S.T.E.M. genius, a board of designers, and a board of corporate overlords are okay with you screaming out the horrible end of your life trapped in your car.
And then there’s the dam committee. In charge of the dam.
But, hey, plastic straws…
(https://dashcamtalk.com/forum/threads/can-you-unlock-your-door-lock-manually-if-not-it-could-be-dangerous.11993/)
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