I’ve been seeing the cars submerged in water because of the recent heavy rainfalls… Let me give us some guiding tips..
It is usually an unprecedented situation as most of us don’t plan to encounter floods or any form of being stranded.
If you happen to find your car submerged unanticipatedly, if the water level at least goes beyond the level of the tyre..
1.) Switch off the engine immediately… Just switch it off
2) Try and go out of the car for your own safety, for cars wired electronically such that the doors or windows may not function because of the water, you can break through the window with your head rest on the car seat, your car seats are designed in such a way that you can detach them, remove it and break the glasses to find your way out
3) If the rain, flood abates, do not try to start or crank your engine immediately, this is where most people have issues with their cars
4) It is important that you try and drain the engine oil immediately and service it at that point, while not making any attempt to ignite or start the engine..
5) Try and leave the car for about 2-3 days without doing anything, just leave it to dry off, if it is on the main road or obstructing traffic, put your gear lever on the Neutral position, for both manual and automatic transmissions and push it off the road, remember, do not try to ignite the car
From experience and a professional angle, you may not have to spend a dime on the car for repairs, the car will come up after 48hours if you do not try to crank it from the inception of the flood or rain.
It might be too much if a sacrifice to wait but it will save you a whole lot of expenses..
Worst case scenario, tow the car to your house or anywhere near that is safe, just do not start the engine and leave it for at least 48 hours..
Most importantly, drain the engine oil after the first 24 hours and have the engine oil replaced before attempting to start or ignite the engine.
I’m A Mechanic, and I know these tips will help.
If there will be any electrical malfunctions, they will be minimal, just leave your car for at least 48 hours.
#DoroMecho ✌️✌️
@browncookiee@criticalnews5 I don't know it top of my head as well 😂, I had to check my archive to get it the exact way he said it.
By the way, I just started watching his interviews on YouTube a few months back and downloaded one of his books "The Economics and Politics of Race"
@browncookiee@criticalnews5 The first lesson of economics is scarcity; there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy those who want it.
The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics - THOMAS SOWELL (Professor of Economics)
You can remain in your fool's paradise and dismiss the simple addition of 2 and 2 to get 4 as "conspiracy theory" if it makes you feel better, but facts are very stubborn things. Especially when they are written and on public record.
A known drug pusher ran for president under the ruling party in a 3rd world country. A journalist who knew that federal drug trafficking investigations in the US typically involve more than one investigating agency got hold of his IRS indictment and submitted FOIA requests to the DEA and FBI.
On the strength of the extensive IRS indictment alone, he was able to publish a story that became the documentary in my pinned tweet. Later on, with help from an American FOIA activist Aaron Greenspan, he filed an FOIA lawsuit in Washington DC, targeting the FBI, CIA, IRS, DEA, State Department and the Department of Justice (US Attorneys Office).
The judge assigned to the case was Beryl Howell, a lifelong, card-carrying Democrat who was appointed to the Federal bench by Barack Obama, and whose prior work had been pivotal to expanding the Freedom Of Information Act itself.
https://t.co/XCNrbHlpJk
Heck, she had even previously received a a journalism award for her work protecting and expanding the FOIA, especially where it concerned giving the public access to key information about public officials. If there was any judge that should have seen the need for the public to have access to criminal drug trafficking investigation records pertaining to the president of an entire country (he had been declared "winner" by this time), it should have been Beryl Howell.
Instead, she first dicked the lawsuit around for 6 months, and then when the drug pusher's lawyer intervened and applied to be admitted to the lawsuit, she immediately granted the motion citing the following as her reason:
"Tinubu has a cognizable interest that may be impaired because the FOIA requests at issue pertain to information about him that would implicate his privacy interests."
Subsequently, the FBI released the investigation records but redacted every mention of his name, claiming a "national security" exemption. The CIA said "we can neither confirm nor deny," which is government-speak for "go fuck yourself." The DEA refused to release its files claiming a "privacy" exemption for the drug pusher, because again, not even the interests of 200 million humans are as important as the "privacy" of a drug trafficker who gets to lead them. The State Department agreed to release its files and then later reversed itself and lied that it never said so, eventually releasing only 13 pages that were ENTIRELY redacted - another diplomatic "go fuck yourself." Finally the IRS - the one whose indictment the journalist saw, which started the whole thing - claimed that it had lost all its files on the drug pusher and "cannot locate" them.
And then you will tell me that this drug pusher - on whose behalf the entire US government contorted itself into pretzels, commiting judicial malpratice and multiple perjuries in its own federal court - is not a US puppet? The US is in the habit of lying in written court documents to protect African drug dealers just for the craic of it? There's nothing in it for them?
All of you might agree to be stupid because American approval means more to you than your own lives and the future of your own children, but not everyone will agree to be stupid at the same time. I personally do not aspire to be a stupid good doggie for anyone.
Even if there is only one person from the 210 million Nigerians in existence who refuses to be stupid, I volunteer to be that one person.
I've said it many times before, and just as nobody was listening then, I know nobody is listening now, but I'll say it again because hey, why not?
Dear African organised private sector:
The reason that your operating environment is always trying to kill you, and you struggle to grow despite having a market of 1.4 billion of the world's youngest people, is because nearly all of the think tanks, policy research institutes, civil society organisations, and media in Africa are owned, funded, directed or controlled by external actors who are trying to kill you. Your growth and success are not in their interests.
If you have ambitions of becoming what you really ought to become, you must come together and fund African think tanks, policy research institutes, civil society organisations, and - especially - media. You need to do this with the full understanding that these things will never turn a direct profit for you, and they are investments with a long turnaround, but that if well done, they are the difference between remaining a village champion capitalist and getting Africa Finance Corporation to approve financing for a pipeline that raises your country's energy generation by 50,000MW and turns you into billionaires.
If you don't come together and do this, rest assured that white men are already doing it for you. Just that their think tanks are recommending that your countries should defund higher education and starve you of the human capital you need to succeed; their policy research institutes are publishing papers calling for the continent with 3.9 percent of global emissions to do "energy transition" to cut the emissions it doesn't have; their civil society organisations are focused on LGBTQ - which is famously Africa's greatest and most pressing issue; and their media is drip-feeding your market of 1.4 billion consumers with every type of misinformation and disinformation under the sun.
If you're happy with that, then never mind me. I'm just some Nigerian yapper who thinks too much for his own good, and we're all gonna die anyway. ✌🏾