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Originally Posted by sumitkalindi Just thinking aloud, what will you guys do in Kolkata in full blast?? |
Today Kolkata was under water, although the levels were not as high as recently found in other parts of the country, but nevertheless a large part of my daily 22 km commute had been waterlogged, add to this I had to drop someone to his office and in that process had to drive thru More than Knee-deep water.
Whenever there is water logging, the Battery indicator on my Ikon 1.6 nxt comes on and accompanied with the Steering loosing power (as the drive belt is slipping). So each time out of the pool one has to rev it a bit to dry the belt to regain steering power. But today it was almost not there as there was hardly any dry patch that was lower than calf height so had to drive with a very heavy steering , for 10-15 kms almost at crawling speeds.
But today few things happened, the music sytem just stopped working when I noted that the Tacho had died down, so had the horn , the Wiper was going feeble, but the Engine kept going almost. I was quite sure that the electrical were getting Short circuited and just hoped that the engine does not packup.
Top that with the fact that I normaly "Ford" thru water in first gear and keeping the engine a bit raced, but today there were jerks from the clutch in first gear, so had to go into the second cog and maintain higher momentum. Felt real bad for some padestrians I had to involuntarily splash on, I generally make it a point not to splash on people.
Add to that a nutcase of a SINP (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics) bus which was happy in the fact that it was way above the waters causing some huge waves. The same bus is usually driven madly on other days, one day I am going to call up the SINP office and complain.
Last edited by 1100D : 19th July 2006 at 14:12.
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8th July 2006, 16:11
