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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Jul 16, 2018 7:21:40 GMT -6
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Jeke
Junior Forecaster
Old Jamestown, MO
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Post by Jeke on Jul 16, 2018 7:36:28 GMT -6
I love my Toyota Highlander mid sized SUV. It's older than you're looking for but the model is worth considering. I'm on my second one after totaling the first in a disagreement with four deer about who had the right of way on I-44 Jul 16, 2018 7:40:50 GMT -5 BRTNWXMAN said: If you want reliable, Toyota or Honda is definitely the way to go...GMC/Chevy not so much. I obviously don't know how to use two quotes properly but I highly agree with guyatacomputer and BRTNWXMAN. We bought a used 2004 Highlander Limited (28,xxx miles) from STL Lexus in 2006 and drove it until December of 2015 when it was totaled at 80,xxx miles. Great care, took care of it and got $14,000 from insurance. Did without a car for two months while trying to find a low mileage SUV that would fit in our garage. The new Highlander would have been first on list but was just too big to fit in garage with my wife's Honda Civic and our Deere garden tractor with a 48" deck. Ended up with a new Toyota RAV4 Limited (almost same size as my 2004 Highlander). I did cry some having to eat the new car depreciation loss but was going crazy without a car! Wife and I agree that unless you go into luxury makes then Honda or Toyota are the way to go for satisfaction and more importantly, reliability. Just our two cents and YMMV! |
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Jul 16, 2018 7:46:05 GMT -6
Language warning on this. But an amazing video
This was posted on Facebook by KUSI and recorded by a Chris and Anne Mackie on Saturday. A brush fire generates a firenado that turns in to a water spout on the Colorado River.
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Post by jeepers on Jul 16, 2018 7:53:07 GMT -6
Over here, we do Toyota, Honda and Subaru. Safety is number one, but after that it's all about the reliability. We've had other brands transiently in the past, and our experience is that they oftentimes commit unaffordably expensive suicide at about 95k miles.
My 1999 Toyota Sienna lasted 17 years until the catalytic converter died. Wanted something newer, so we donated it. The engine and transmission never had issues and will probably go another 100k miles. My husband will only drive a Honda Civic as a commuter car. He's had several, but they didn't die from having issues, but from accidents.
I drive a 2015 Subaru Forester. I wanted the Honda Pilot but the Forester was about 10k cheaper. (Couldn't justify the purchase, my kids are older.) I love the AWD, but know that if you get a flat, you have to replace all four tires because the wear has to be the same for the traction control to work. The technology interface (GPS/radio/phone) is sort of antiquated and needs to be updated. The tech in my husband's 2017 Civic is so much better. However, it's sturdy, it's been to hell and back and it's doing great. I do hockey tournaments with one kid and college student road trips with the other, and have already put 46k on it. I've replaced the tires because of the aforementioned get a nail, you replace everything problem and the windshield because of the gravel on 141 (a pox on construction folks that don't clean up their mess). I've never had to scrape an icy window, the defroster melts anything away because the front window is electronic defrost like the back. You just start the car, come back 10 minutes later and it's all loose and good. My only regret is that I should have gotten the remote start so I don't have to leave the house to start the car on a cold morning. The heated front seats with my bad back allow me to do long drives (it's like driving with a heating pad). And I can attest that the all weather mats are the best extra feature. I once bought some mulch and my husband was supposed to unload it, but ran out of time that night. The next day we go out to the car and apparently the bags were wet inside and leaked an inch of terrible dirty water onto the mat. Not a drop hit the carpet. We just pulled it out, washed it with a hose and were good to go. 80 bucks for mats that saved the interior carpet.
There are things on the Subaru that are standard that you can't find on other brands without paying more, which is a plus. And I can put up with being annoyed with the terrible GPS and just using the one on my phone to save 10k. It does ride a bit stiffer than a Toyota or Honda. If money wasn't a problem I'd go for a Toyota Highlander or a Honda Pilot. And I'd rather buy a used Honda than a new American car. I'm sort of a made in the USA girl, but I'm done with forking out the cash for major repairs, only to have to buy another car anyway.
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Post by jmg378s on Jul 16, 2018 8:04:54 GMT -6
Language warning on this. But an amazing video This was posted on Facebook by KUSI and recorded by a Chris and Anne Mackie on Saturday. A brush fire generates a firenado that turns in to a water spout on the Colorado River. That is really fascinating! |
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Post by bdgwx on Jul 16, 2018 9:39:18 GMT -6
The SPC has declined to highlight any areas for severe weather on Thursday and Friday due to uncertainty because of a large model spread. There is an unusually (by July standards anyway) energetic impulse of energy that's going to move through the upper great plains and midwest regions later in the week. There will be substantial areas of wind shear and instability that will develop somewhere in the middle of the country, but it's too soon to say where the best overlap of the ingredients will occur due to the wide range of possibilities being depicted by models right now. An MCS/derecho setup, a tornado setup, and a null event are still on the table in model land. It's definitely something to watch.
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twocat
Junior Forecaster
North St. Peters off Cave Springs
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Post by twocat on Jul 16, 2018 11:10:17 GMT -6
Here's my 2 cents - buy American.
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Post by ajd446 on Jul 16, 2018 11:29:40 GMT -6
I could see Friday being a one day of brutally hot temps before storms pop
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Post by guyfromhecker on Jul 16, 2018 12:08:16 GMT -6
Here's my 2 cents - buy American. Lol, I deliver all "American Brand" OE car parts. MOST of them are made elsewhere. MOST foreign vehicles we buy here are made here. American made cars is pretty much a misnomer nowadays. |
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Jul 16, 2018 12:18:46 GMT -6
Line of storms starting to develop in western IL and northeastern MO. Nothing strong at this point but how can this humidity and heat not be gasoline for the fire?
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Post by BRTNWXMAN on Jul 16, 2018 13:00:06 GMT -6
Here's my 2 cents - buy American. Lol, I deliver all "American Brand" OE car parts. MOST of them are made elsewhere. MOST foreign vehicles we buy here are made here. American made cars is pretty much a misnomer nowadays. Completely agree. Some of the so called "import" makers are more American than the "domestic" makers. You can argue about whether or not the profits stay within the country, but that's not really the point. |
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twocat
Junior Forecaster
North St. Peters off Cave Springs
Posts: 395
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Post by twocat on Jul 16, 2018 13:47:26 GMT -6
Lol, I deliver all "American Brand" OE car parts. MOST of them are made elsewhere. MOST foreign vehicles we buy here are made here. American made cars is pretty much a misnomer nowadays. Completely agree. Some of the so called "import" makers are more American than the "domestic" makers. You can argue about whether or not the profits stay within the country, but that's not really the point. So supporting greater economic development and reducing trade deficit by buying American is "Lol"? Sorry I don't get it. I didn't put this on to start a debate. |
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Post by BRTNWXMAN on Jul 16, 2018 13:57:14 GMT -6
Completely agree. Some of the so called "import" makers are more American than the "domestic" makers. You can argue about whether or not the profits stay within the country, but that's not really the point. So supporting greater economic development and reducing trade deficit by buying American is "Lol"? Sorry I don't get it. I didn't put this on to start a debate. Pretty much every major "import" automaker has assembly plants in the US...that's the point I'm trying to make. A lot of the traditional "American" automakers have plants in Mexico and elsewhere and a majority of the parts are sourced globally. |
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Post by guyfromhecker on Jul 16, 2018 14:44:43 GMT -6
Completely agree. Some of the so called "import" makers are more American than the "domestic" makers. You can argue about whether or not the profits stay within the country, but that's not really the point. So supporting greater economic development and reducing trade deficit by buying American is "Lol"? Sorry I don't get it. I didn't put this on to start a debate. no, the funny part is you can't tell what's American-made anymore in the car market. I pass a a Toyota plant on a regular basis. If making corporate GM or Ford richer is going to make us better, which I highly question, sure it would be a better idea to buy them. |
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Post by dschreib on Jul 16, 2018 19:17:48 GMT -6
If you want reliable, Toyota or Honda is definitely the way to go...GMC/Chevy not so much. I have an 04 Silverado that I've almost driven to the moon. Has the typical rust that all trucks that age get, but I can't complain too much. |
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Post by guyfromhecker on Jul 16, 2018 19:41:11 GMT -6
If you want reliable, Toyota or Honda is definitely the way to go...GMC/Chevy not so much. I have an 04 Silverado that I've almost driven to the moon. Has the typical rust that all trucks that age get, but I can't complain too much. what have you done to it besides normal maintenance? Just how far is the Moon? I drive Silverados every day and they got tons of miles on them. They seem to be pretty solid trucks |
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Post by dschreib on Jul 16, 2018 20:23:50 GMT -6
I have an 04 Silverado that I've almost driven to the moon. Has the typical rust that all trucks that age get, but I can't complain too much. what have you done to it besides normal maintenance? Just how far is the Moon? I drive Silverados every day and they got tons of miles on them. They seem to be pretty solid trucks About 238,000 miles to the moon. I think I'm around 225k right now, so I should make it later this year or early next. Normal maintenance, for the most part, and I always go over on miles between oil changes--sometimes double the "recommended" interval. It's had a new fuel line, new brake lines, new master cylinder (2 of them, actually, since they put the wrong one on the first time), rear calipers, and I had to have new stepper motors put on all of the dashboard gauges. I think I've changed the spark plugs once, flushed the transmission a couple times, never touched the rear diff, not even sure if I've ever changed the belts. It's had the infamous "clunk" from the intermittent steering shaft that's common to that truck, but I've just lived with it. Trying to think of anything else. Now, it's showing its age a bit--the headliner is falling, all of the dash/radio/AC lights randomly go dim (some don't work at all), the AC only has high speed (but cold air still comes out of the vents after I turn it down to 4 as long as it's been "primed" by running it on full-blast for several miles), the electronic door locks work most of the time (but sometimes you have to push it a bunch of times really fast). All in all, it's been a good truck. As things get quirky, I just figure out ways to keep it limping along. Most of the things listed above could be fixed if I wanted to invest a few bucks into it, but I'm not sure that I do at this point. Somewhere around 18mpg for an older 4WD, too. |
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Post by bdgwx on Jul 16, 2018 22:21:29 GMT -6
Anybody see that 0Z GFS run?
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Post by cozpregon on Jul 16, 2018 22:24:32 GMT -6
It suggest Thursday evening and again Friday afternoon.
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Post by bdgwx on Jul 16, 2018 22:42:18 GMT -6
Verbatim it looked especially gnarly on Friday.
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Jul 17, 2018 1:00:11 GMT -6
How is it looking just southwest of Peoria? My wife has a graveside funeral at 10 am Friday. She's driving up Thursday afternoon and I already told her there was potential somewhere in the middle of the country in a Thursday/Friday time fra
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Post by guyfromhecker on Jul 17, 2018 6:28:01 GMT -6
what have you done to it besides normal maintenance? Just how far is the Moon? I drive Silverados every day and they got tons of miles on them. They seem to be pretty solid trucks About 238,000 miles to the moon. I think I'm around 225k right now, so I should make it later this year or early next. Normal maintenance, for the most part, and I always go over on miles between oil changes--sometimes double the "recommended" interval. It's had a new fuel line, new brake lines, new master cylinder (2 of them, actually, since they put the wrong one on the first time), rear calipers, and I had to have new stepper motors put on all of the dashboard gauges. I think I've changed the spark plugs once, flushed the transmission a couple times, never touched the rear diff, not even sure if I've ever changed the belts. It's had the infamous "clunk" from the intermittent steering shaft that's common to that truck, but I've just lived with it. Trying to think of anything else. Now, it's showing its age a bit--the headliner is falling, all of the dash/radio/AC lights randomly go dim (some don't work at all), the AC only has high speed (but cold air still comes out of the vents after I turn it down to 4 as long as it's been "primed" by running it on full-blast for several miles), the electronic door locks work most of the time (but sometimes you have to push it a bunch of times really fast). All in all, it's been a good truck. As things get quirky, I just figure out ways to keep it limping along. Most of the things listed above could be fixed if I wanted to invest a few bucks into it, but I'm not sure that I do at this point. Somewhere around 18mpg for an older 4WD, too. I'm driving one at work today that has 415000 miles. I cannot vouch for the originality of the drivetrain. I do know that they do 4000 mile oil changes on these trucks. |
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Post by BRTNWXMAN on Jul 17, 2018 7:33:02 GMT -6
If you want reliable, Toyota or Honda is definitely the way to go...GMC/Chevy not so much. I have an 04 Silverado that I've almost driven to the moon. Has the typical rust that all trucks that age get, but I can't complain too much. Older vehicles tend to be more reliable and cheaper to repair than these newer ones. For the most part, GM makes a good powertrain. |
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gonefishin - WashMO
Junior Forecaster
Washington, Franklin County, MO
Posts: 491
Snowfall Events: 2013-2014: A lot!
2014-2015: If you forecast it, it will come!
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Post by gonefishin - WashMO on Jul 17, 2018 7:50:31 GMT -6
For what it’s worth, it feels so much better outside this morning than it has for some time. My 11 and 7 year old have golf this morning. First time all summer that I think it’ll be pleasant to be out there.
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Post by guyfromhecker on Jul 17, 2018 8:25:30 GMT -6
Last year this time I talked a guy I rented Big Cedar to, to try going north into upper lower Michigan this year. He is up there this week. High temperature supposed to be in the mid-70s today. I have a feeling he may go up there again next year. I would love to go back there. My wife is bound and determined to keep checking out more Resorts though. It's off to Big Bear Lake next year. That'll be after heading to Aruba again in the late winter
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Post by Snowstorm920 on Jul 17, 2018 9:48:54 GMT -6
12z NAM has some interesting soundings around here Thursday evening
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Post by jmg378s on Jul 17, 2018 11:48:39 GMT -6
SPC Day 3 (and to some extent the extended day 4) discussion seems overly conservative to me. Statements like this: "Marginally severe wind gusts and hail will be possible with the cells that develop in areas with the strongest instability" seems to skirt the fact that strong shear is showing up in forecast progs as well. In fact there's not a single mention in the D3 discussion of the strong upper/mid level jets that will be place supporting the potential for high shear in some areas that may even overlap the strong instability. Now, on the other hand there's a lot of differences where/when/if convection is modeled so there's probably lower than normal uncertainty as far as 3 day outlooks go. Just look at the most recent NAM/GFS/ECM runs for example. Anyway, not trying to be overly critical, just using it as a talking point, but I would take the current SPC D3 outlook (and lack of D4 outlook) location and category with a grain of salt for now. Some examples...   |
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Post by jmg378s on Jul 17, 2018 11:58:30 GMT -6
My gut tells me somebody somewhere in the middle of the country is gonna get slammed by a severe MCS and/or HP supercells on Thursday or Friday or both.
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Post by Chris Higgins on Jul 17, 2018 16:50:31 GMT -6
It is an interesting set-up. My gut for Thursday is that the warm front will get stalled somewhere in central or eastern Missouri as it gets reinforced by evaporative cooling and a drier easterly flow. I could foresee a situation where we have a string of supercells propagating south/southeast along the front...with a tornado threat near the front...a large hail threat immediately east of the front...and a heavy rain threat just east of there. How Thursday plays out will greatly impact the events of Friday. Considering the rather healthy moisture available within the WAA wing...I suspect the models are considerably underdone in their coverage of storms for Thursday into Thursday night. One less favorable factor is that mid-level lapse rates are not all that impressive.
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Post by Snowstorm920 on Jul 17, 2018 19:46:56 GMT -6
Ill be traveling to SW Mo Thursday Night so im keeping an eye on this setup. Last thing I want to do is drive through an MCS
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