Honestly, that's the kind of lesson you only learn the hard way.

Honestly, is feeding too slow really that big of a deal on aluminum? It's not like you're cutting titanium or something. I've run tools a bit slow before and they seemed fine, maybe just got a little hot. That whole "rubbing not cutting" thing gets repeated a lot, but sometimes I wonder if people are just being overly careful.

Keep a paper map in your glove box for exactly this reason. The GPS algorithms all fail the same way when a main road closes.

Actually that's a pretty sad legacy if you think about it. Being remembered as the worst at something is just embarrassing, not cool. Those future people won't be confused, they'll just laugh at how bad you were. It's a dead game, so nobody will even care enough to dig it up anyway.

Man, my buddy had the exact same thing happen in Spokane! His whole batch of those off-brand sensors just died when it hit single digits. The LCD screens went totally blank and the batteries were toast. He ended up having to do an emergency swap with some old DSC sensors he had in his van. It was a long, cold night for him.