In my (futile) attempt to defy Mother Nature this winter, I picked up an '06 Forntier on Saturday.

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1...ontier_034.jpg

I'm gonna need it to rebuild the damage and take all the scrap to the transfer station anyways. I would've felt like too much of a mooch bumming off my friend's truck when he needs it now too.

No still no cable yet, but I'm thankful to have power. Generators are nearly impossible to find. I was at Home Depot in Tukwila yesterday when they had just recieved a shipment of generators, the place was pretty ugly. I helped a friend hook up a 700W inverter to a bank of car batteries so he could have some power, definately a cheaper option than a generator as long as you have batteries and a place to charge 'em once they're drained.

 

nice truck! You almost have a complete Nissan family - all you need is one of their minivans and you'll have the set!

 

Ack!! A mini-van!?!?! The thought frieghtens me something fierce.

So currently I have achived my goal of acquiring the 3 primary Nismo colors; Red, Silver and Black. I guess the gold S14 will have to go....unless.... I get it repainted a color scheme of red, silver and black? Hmmm....

The nice thing about the Frontier is that it's the same longitudinally mounted VQ35DE stroked to 4.0L. Gotta see how many parts are swappable between engines or even if the engines themselves can be swapped. Hmmm...

 

power came back to half of Mercer Island (luckily the half i live on) last night, just as i was burning my last piece of wood. My fiance and dog were getting tired of not having power. I was having fun, like i was camping.
I even had an old honda generator that i could not get going, but trying to get it started kept me warm and smelling like gas for 3 days.

 

Power came back on Friday night for us in Newcastle...but no internet until today... (monday).

I feel sorry for anyone who's out of power still...that sucks!

 

I probably see your lights on every night as I'm driving to my cold dark house ...I'm less than 1 mile south from the Newcastle Safeway and still no power!

I should start ...at least it'd warm me up at night.

 

I left for Vancouver Thursday night around 9pm. Just in time to avoid the outages! It actually snowed in downtown Van Fri. night.

 

I'm debating between buying a generator or a gas fireplace for the future storms.

You'll love that truck and it will last forever. I still have a '93 Nissan pick-up that has been great with absolutely no problems and I am up over 140,000 miles now ! (knock on wood).

 

I wonder if I should get a beater. I already have 11500mi on my car but its only 8 mos old. Thinking of a 10 yr old beater, japanese/domestic, < $1800

 

11,500 miles in only 8 months? Impressive. Didn't you have an Accord? That would make a great low cost secondary car.

I'm still w/o cable. It's amazing how much more work you get done around the house when you don't have the distraction of TV and the internet.

 

just got power back last night!!!!