Thats a good post.  Im glad you shared that.   What an important warning
that applies to every single person on the list!!  That info is just too
important not to be read.   I initially deleted -- didn't see the IMPORTANT
part, can you believe that??  All I saw in my mind was the insane a/c
project -- and hit delete.  Then the old "something tells me to go back
into trash and pull that one out" took over.
I was going to ask you to consider reposting with a different subject --
but I guess you did all that was necessary.  (After rethinking, I decided
to rename the subject myself)  That warning is a darn good one and we all
need to rethink about packing anything in *any* vehicle, especially vans,
where you tend to just throw stuff in because it is so large.  Thanks again
for the reminder.  It is amazing how many people do goofy things like
that.  Not planning for problems.  To me, it shows how it can affect more
than themselves too.  The pole could have easily hit him in the head and
very likely he would have crashed into your van, or veered off into
oncoming traffic, or piled up on the side of the road.  Deaths?? No telling
what might have happened.  Thank goodness for lucky breaks, eh!
hk

At 07:35 AM 8/26/01 -0400, Jeff Stewart wrote:
>Here's something else to think about. On the way to EveryBus 2001, our
>caravan had to make a sudden stop due to one bus breaking down. The bus
>behind me stopped about an inch away from my rear bumper, but when he had
>packed for the trip, he had put his tent poles on top of a pile of stuff in
>the back-one of the poles became a missile, missing the back of his head by
>mere inches and going right into the windshield, which it cracked! Better to
>lose a windshield than have a metal pole stuck in the back of your head.
>Pack carefully!
>Jeff Stewart
>1977 Westfalia
>1974 S. Beetle Conv.
>http://www.geocities.com/busnut4277