Re: [alfa] water water everywhere

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Last week I cleverly left a rear window open in the Milano...  It was
on the side of the car facing away from the house, and I did not
notice it until the remants of Frances came through and dropped a
record amount of rain on us.   I was not happy when I happened to see
the other side of the car.

That record rainfall lasted until yesterday when the remants of Ivan
plowed through Pittsburgh dropping 8" on the downtown.   I smartly
ducked out of work extremely early and got the spider and myself
(albeit a bit damp) home before the worst hit.    Just about every
major roadway was compromised in some way (landslides, flooding,
mult-car accidents.)

Having lost all my Tonka toys & sandbox in the Johnstown flood of '77,
I wisely purchased my new house far from any streams, or flood plains.
   We did get some water in the basement... the first that's happened
in 6 years, but otherwise no problems here.   This time my Alfas were
safely high and dry.

--Mark


On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 12:42:20 -0400 (EDT), Richard Welty
<rwelty@domain.elided> wrote:
> well, not really, but this morning when i went out to start loading
> the trunk of the milano with items for the sand lake town dump,
> i found 2" of water in the driver's footwell.
> 
> it was dripping at a fairly steady rate from behind the fusebox.
> i bailed out the footwell and took out the floor mat to dry. i briefly
> looked at the base of the driver's side of the windshield and
> observed that the rubber underneath the plastic cowl piece
> is lifted up in places and when i pull up on the plastic, the
> rubber lifts as well. it doesn't seem to do this on the passenger
> side. but i don't know if this is actually a problem. can anyone
> make any suggestions on where to look?
> 
> i also should note that the water stopped dripping after i fooled
> with this, and was still not dripping when i parked the car after
> running errands. i'll be going back out to check on it shortly.
> 
> richard
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