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Christopher Schimke
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Wow! What an adventure indeed! Really glad you guys are all safe.
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thevannmann
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Glad you got out safe!!! What an intense video! Haha loved all the syncro comments
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tarandusVDub
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Wow ~ that WAS a good purchase!
Way to go keeping cool Mike, taking 'fire' from all sides!
Definitely do NOT mute the audio ~ your wife's running commentary is priceless and really gives the juice to the excitement of the moment! Go Syncro Go!
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gotboost?
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I love how at around 2:45 in the video, as your wife is hitting the fan, the camera pans back and shows your son smiling ear to ear. Unless that was his crying face?
Looks like a crazy time, and glad the VW pulled through!!!! |
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tarandusVDub
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I think that was right before you could hear him yell, "I'm too young to die!!!"
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debbiej
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Glad your whole family is safe. Your kid yelling "Indiana Jones"! priceless
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Syncronicity
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Wow...That was an adventure. Way to keep it together Mike. Your smiling son new he was in good hands 
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shadetreetim
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One hell of a video Mike. Good job saving the family.
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Amazing experience (you had a truly cool head, awesome!) - glad that everybody made it fine!
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Syncro video of the year!!!
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peaceful warrior
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Damn! That was definitely a frightening experience! Good job on getting your family out of harms way!
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 Wow! Thanks for sharing! Nice focus, concentration and driving with all that going on around you! If my dh and/or kids were making noise like that during a stressful driving situation, I'd have told them to zip it. And, I wouldn't have used my nice mommy voice either!
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Sitting on the couch on a quiet Friday night, TV randomly on NBC's "Caught on Camera with Nick Cannon" and all of the sudden Syncromike and his family and their escape from fire video is on TV.
I yell out, "That's syncromike!" as the video starts.
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Tom Powell
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Aloha
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All4You
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| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2016 8:49 pm Post subject: Re: Syncro helped escape fire instead of starting one |
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Mike you're a hero!!!
"We are too young to die"...
"This was a great purchase"...
very insightful quotes.
Love how the man stepped up with the help of his trusty machine in the midst of near despair, to save his family.
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msinabottle
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Keep calm and drive fast?
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It is a wonderful story. There's one about a sudden flood in California. The 1940s engineer who put the air intake high on a Harvester tractor, so that it could run submerged--saved three lives.
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syncromike
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Sitting on the couch on a quiet Friday night, TV randomly on NBC's "Caught on Camera with Nick Cannon" and all of the sudden Syncromike and his family and their escape from fire video is on TV.
I yell out, "That's syncromike!" as the video starts.
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LOL, they filmed that like a year ago. We only filmed it after they agreed to show the kids in the segment, they're pretty stoked about it. All I can say is I'm on a diet now after seeing myself on TV.
Here's the segment:
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it was windy all day in Boise and heard it was even worse out there. News today is 6 houses burned.
