Who had a blowout on the freeway today?

[XemaSab]

XemaSab had a blowout on the freeway today. :(

In Stockton.

It worked out though. A really nice man from Clark Pest Control helped me out.

I found a tire store. It took them 2 f****ing hours to help me. :grr:

And I continued on my merry way to Redding.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Xema Sab!

Oh, that's awful...

I hope it wasn't raining, at least...

Thank goodness for the good samaritans...:hug:

[XemaSab]

2. It wasn't raining, no

I didn't see much rain at all.

A tiny bit in SB and a tiny bit near Kettleman City...

How are things down there?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. It's raining!

Coming down pretty well, too...

I hope it continues a while...

Everything is parched...

There was supposed to be snow on the local mountains too...

If Mt. Baldy gets any, that'll be very pretty...

[XemaSab]

11. Crazy!

It feels like it's two months later than it is.... very odd. :P

But yeah, the mountains really need it. North Santa Barbara County/SLO county looked like DEATH. We got virtually no rain last winter, so the plants are barely holding on.

It would be fun to get some snow!

[Bjornsdotter]

3. Since you've a perfectly rotten day

...I hope these cheer you up.

:hug:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=n4yvY6vqFO0

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z8mvrFHcgsc

[XemaSab]

7. Good times.

I am always down for the HP videos.

Always. :D

How have you been? Been keeping busy since the release? :shrug:

[Bjornsdotter]

10. Okay

:hi:

...I'm still in denial that it's all over. Been reading some fanfic, heavy into denial.

I think I'm going to start to reread the last book.

How about you?

:toast:

[XemaSab]

12. I just feel empty

:(

What are the five stages of grieving?

'Cause I've gone through bargaining and I am in denial. Or something. :P

I guess I just feel fortunate to have lived at a time where half the fun of the reading was in the theories. :)

Future generations will not be so lucky. :(

[Lethe]

5. damn. do you know what caused it?

old tire? something in the road?

[XemaSab]

8. The tire was brand new.

Alls I know is that there was a four inch hole in it.

It has gone to tire heaven now. :P

But California freeways suck, so it was probably something to do with the road. :P

[skygazer]

19. It's always my new tires that go

I drove around at one point with tires that were entirely bald - not a single tread on them. Not a problem. The very day I got new tires, one of them picked up a nail.

My theory is that everything slid off the bald ones.

Glad it had a happy ending for you. :hi:

[bridgit]

6. were you near like downtown, or up near Benny Holt...

cause some parts of Stockton would *suck* to have a blowout :(

[XemaSab]

9. It was a fortuitous spot really....

About 300 feet shy of the Eight Mile exit (which I am all too familiar with, long story).

The road was wide enough that I could get out and look at the tire without fear of death, and also wide enough that I could drive along the edge to get off the freeway on the exit so as not to risk life and limb changing a tire on the 5. :P

[bridgit]

13. well *that's* good to hear, we do some stuff in Stockton and can hardly wait...

to get out of there (cept of course we've figured out where to buy booze :toast:), glad you were safe and near services...cause it can be a bitch on wheels trying to find your way around that place imo :thumbsup:

[XemaSab]

14. I have decided that California is a land of many armpits

and Stockton is one.

California must be a Hindu god, ya know?

Any city with sprawl, such as LA, Sacramento, Fresno... ya gotta know where you're going. :P

But if I had busted the tire two miles earlier or later, the story might have a different ending. :(

[bridgit]

15. hahahahahaha, ding! you got it!!

Hi! My names: California :hi:
;)

[ironflange]

16. This topic is screaming for a copycat

But I don't have the nerve.

[XemaSab]

20. And what would that be?

:D

[ironflange]

24. Uh. . .

Blowgun?

[billyskank]

17. That must have been scary

Glad you handled it alright. :hug:

Never had a blowout, though I've had two punctures. But they both happened while the car was parked.

[XemaSab]

21. It was okay.

It happened too fast to be truly freaky. :hug:

[Guava Jelly]

18. That was last week for me

That shit can get expensive

[XemaSab]

22. Whoa!

:o

Mine just had a big gash in it. :P

[Ellen Forradalom]

23. Two people alongside the 101 in Calabasas

Lot of it going around. Sorry the gods thwarted you today.

[Critters2]

25. I'm glad you're okay!!! nt