Dottymoon gives her opinion of the new BBS layout.

Last week I clicked on the BBS link, ready to post my opinion of Cobd's article. To my surprise, I noticed the old BBS was gone and in it's place was a brand new BBS! Actually, all the old features were still there, but there is so much more now.

For a start, the color scheme has changed, from bright purple and orange to paler pastel colors. The new color scheme gives off a fresher, more modern vibe than the brighter, block colors on the old layout. There is a feature that shows who is online right now, and a feature that shows who posted latest on each thread. It also shows what date and time the latest post was posted, so anyone who wants to know doesn't have to go through all the posts. It's time saving and looks better and more interesting.

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DrRabiah reports on a scary car event.

I was driving to Walgreens to pick up some Advil for my toothache when I had my second car accident. Given it had been raining most of the day, the road had flooded and as it was 8:30pm I did not see all the water I was about to drive into at the bottom of a hill. Unfortunately, I hydroplaned right into a ditch on the opposite side of the road, and hit a tree on my way there (so sad).

Hydroplanning occurs when water causes the front tires to lose contact with the road's surface. So I hydroplanned into the ditch when a combination of my speed (I was going 35mph), tire wear (I just got new tires, so much for that), tire inflation, or the depth of the water on the pavement (it was really deep) caused my tires to lose traction. When the speed of my car and the depth of the water increased, a wedge of water formed in front of my tires. My further increases in speed going downhill and the depth of the water at the bottom of the hill caused the wedge to move under my tire forming a film between the tire and road surface, greatly reducing my control of the car (yes that would be my control).

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