|
Album cover art in my iTunes, sorted by sexiness
Quote:
Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
FWIW, I have heard that if your car is going into the water, you want to roll your windows down (counter-intuitively), since otherwise it gets very hard to open the doors.
If anyone knows this to be wrong, or has other practical advice for such circumstances, please let me know, since in the middle of nights like last night I like to lay awake in bed and picture how I'd get children in carseats out of vehicles that have plunged into a major river.
eta"I"
|
Your local television stations don't throw cars into bodies of water with the crazy news guy inside and then show everyone how to get out during sweeps week? We get a lot of flooding, and once or twice a year idiot decides that their car can make it through some submerged highway.
What you've heard is probably right. The doors are useless once the car is submerged, because of the pressure of the water against them pushing them shut. If the windows are electric, then it's likely that the motor will be shot, so rolling them down before the motor is blown is a good idea. You could break them, but that's harder than it seems.
__________________
"In the olden days before the internet, you'd take this sort of person for a ride out into the woods and shoot them, as Darwin intended, before he could spawn."--Will the Vampire People Leave the Lobby? pg 79
|
