Shawn Stanford

This guy!

No, seriously. The river's coming up due to ice jams and Stitch decided to throw his alternator belt. I put it back once, and he did it again. Running rough, probably due to low battery.

It's still unknown how high the river's going to get, but I may have an aquatic shark by the time it's over.

G8RB8

Surely ou can get your hands on a battery and some jumper cables. That should let you drive to higher ground, no?

Adk46

Hope everything is OK. It must have been a long night. The Hudson River near me has been scaring people, closing roads and bridges - huge amounts of ice.

Update?

rosenfe

SteveG

??? for what -- I don't see any pictures. Without which it didn't happen.

This is small slush in Long Isl. Sound, North Shore, when the cold hit Jan 4-7. Gone the next day.

docmirror

Weird, last time I was in the Pok-yer-nose, it was up in the mountains. Get some blocks, and get it up off the ground.

Shawn Stanford

Happily: Non-issue. The river, which was set to a worst-case scenario of a 35-foot crest - which would have put water in my basement and maybe up to the floorboards of the car - crested at 28 feet. The ice jams broke up and flowed down toward the Chesapeake, and all is good. The water got into the street that runs along the river, but no closer than a block or two from me.

Now, to figure out what the hell with the alternator belt. I drove the car from here to Frenzy and back with no problems. I go to start it and it throws the belt. Weird.

drooman

bureau13

Does the '82 have the ribbed alternator belt like my '86, or is it a v-belt? My car started throwing it's power steering belt a while back...it turned out to be a bad belt...the backing, or whatever you call the outside of the v-belt, had cracked, so it had no structural strength there. Not sure that could happen to a ribbed belt though...

linderpat

Glad to hear you dodged a bullet Shawn!

Fogey1

Glad you missed the ice dam flood. The Muskingum was way over its banks until the floes broke and flowed.

Looong ago, my thrown alternator belt was the diagnostic clue that led to the discovery of the mount whose upper end had been violently broken straight out of the block by an alternator strike on a smooth Texas road. I hadn't really noticed when it happened at about 75mph. There's a reason nobody's ride height should be 125mm in front. ;-(