11:42 – We made a quick trip down to Winston yesterday to check on the progress of the painting at the old house. We left at 8:25 a.m. and got home at 12:45 p.m. Of that, about 2.5 hours was travel time, so we spent less than two hours in Winston. We hauled up another Trooper load of stuff, which just about cleared out the old house.
Frances and Al hauled up another load in their pickup, and spent the night here. They left this morning, and should be arriving home right about now.
So, prepping….
not much this week.
Sales sucked, and on top of tree pollen season, I’ve got a cold and respiratory infection. While trying to do SOME useful work, I managed to drop an ATX power supply three feet to the top of my head, corner first. Lots of blood and cursing ensued. Fortunately with a crushing injury, there’s a lot less bleeding than there could be. Ice, gauze pad, and tri-antibiotic cream did the trick. I don’t hurt very much this am…
Which leads to an observation– my first thought was to use paper towel on the wound. Then I thought, ‘I’ve got all these medical supplies, maybe I should use a gauze pad.’ I was reluctant to use stored supplies, but THAT’S WHAT THEY ARE THERE FOR! Quick reminder to self and others that we do this to make the day to day problems easier too, not just a future Armageddon.
SW listening has been very poor. Lots of interference, besides my local LED striplight problem. I’m suspicious that some of my neighbors might have added some led noise to the area too. I’ll have to take a portable and investigate soon. I noticed that some street lighting in our area got upgraded to LED. I’m hoping that expensive commercial product like that complies with FCC regs. I’d hate to have to start chasing the city to abate any RF, as it would probably end in lawsuits….
I
spentwasted a bunch of hours this week exploring maps of my AO. For reasons unrelated to prepping, I had to look for some city resources and found some really cool stuff. Turns out Houston has a very useful GIS* map and database (in fact a couple of them.)http://www.gims.houstontx.gov/gims/default.aspx?app_id=gims&app=GIMS&AppID=-1&app=GIMS requires silverlight.
On it you can see current and proposed public works projects, locations of sewers and storm drains, locations of abandoned storm drains (and you can sort by size), land ownership, uses, building outlines, hospitals, firestations, billboards, and all kinds of other useful stuff. Coupled with the historical arial maps and other online maps, you can get a VERY indepth knowledge of my area (or yours). Definitely spend a bit of time to see if your city or county or area land manager has something similar for your AO.
Sold a few things on ebay in the ongoing quest for money and space…. smalls (tradespeak for stuff that will approximately fit in a shoebox) continue to sell well. More expensive items are not selling, no matter how good the price. What else is selling well is hobby stuff that appeals to older white males of comfortable means–woodworking hand tools in particular. I have sold several technical items to people internationally in the past couple of weeks too. Some were clearly hobby related, but some were also clearly business related. It must be a good way to get hard to find parts, and possibly avoid high taxes and tariffs. Off the top of my head, I’ve sold to the UK, Russia, Australia, Hungary, Germany, and thru a broker to several south american countries. Ebay’s global shipping program makes it easy.
(Side note to our host) To grow your business outside the US it might be possible for you to use Fulfillment by Amazon to sell your kits overseas. You send them a quantity of the kits, and then they do all the rest. I know there are issues with shipping the chemicals, and you may have your hands full at the moment, but perhaps something to look into?
BTW, anyone storing lard as a long term fat? Looks like it’s shelf stable for a while, frozen it should be good even longer…
nick
*A geographic information system or geographical information system (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of spatial or geographical data. — ie. data linked to maps
Lard stays good for a very long time if kept away from oxygen. Just in the waxed paper they’re sold in, the 1 pound blocks last for years. For longer-term storage, buy a bucket – like 35 pounds of lard or tallow in a tightly sealed 5 gallon bucket.
Geez Mr. Nick be careful. I hope that wasn’t stored above your head. Basic safety. I only store very light stuff over my head on the garage shelves.
@mrAtoZ,
yes it was above my head. I had to move a couple of old pcs, that were sitting in my office to make room for a new laser printer, and I thought, “now is as good a time as any to break those down.” Nice low brain power task. So I pulled the guts, and put the metal in the recycle pile. The psus I just reached up and stacked on a shelf above my work area. I already have a couple there, waiting to be made into bench supplies. The difference between a PSU sitting on the back of a shelf, and a stack of them with wire harnesses hanging off escaped my sickness impaired brain. Until one escaped the stack and forcefully reminded my brain why that was a Bad Idea (TM).
Projects are literally piling up around here.
nick
I am taking a break from mowing the lawn to make a list of prepping things to do. I finally got one thing accomplished that has been a pain in my whole spinal column for the last two years, which clears the way for dealing with another thing that a pain in the spinal column for the last two years. Getting the first one done has freed up some resources to be used for prepping, and getting the second one taken care of will free up more time and some other resources for prepping.
I’m just listing things that need to be done now with no paying attention to the priority of them. That will come after I have after I finish the list. For example I really wish we had a generator and a few five gallon cans of gasoline in the shed. The big problem with that is that we don’t have a shed. I think that for prepping reasons and real life as well, we need to be able to put the cars in the garage. That requires getting rid of half the stuff in the garage and putting the other half in the shed we don’t have.
While I am mowing the lawn, I am trying to figure out good sites for the shed. I have the perfect place picked out, but I’m sure the home owners association will object. So it’s on to figuring out the second best spot. I’m also thinking we should do something about gardening soon, and that a raised bed might be a good idea. So I can think about where that goes.
The really important thing that I need to do for prepping and real life, is to get to the point where I can mow our back yard without taking a break.
“SW listening has been very poor. Lots of interference, besides my local LED striplight problem. I’m suspicious that some of my neighbors might have added some led noise to the area too.”
Ditto. But I’ve seen recent emails from Sky and Telescope magazine and the Space Weather site talking about significant solar activity lately, too.
“Coupled with the historical arial maps and other online maps, you can get a VERY indepth knowledge of my area (or yours). Definitely spend a bit of time to see if your city or county or area land manager has something similar for your AO.”
Absolutely. Learn your AO, and that also means getting outta the car and walking or biking or riding a hoss around it. You don’t see chit from the moving cah and still be able to watch traffic and drive safely.
Sunny with blue skies again today and warming up some more; wife off shortly to my old stomping grounds in greater Woostah, MA, but I’m stuck here w/no vehicle until and if Princess deigns to switch vehicles with her mom down there and come back up with mine. But I’m in good shape with stuff and no real need to go anywhere until at least tomorrow or the next few days, possibly joining wife down in MA if I can do it by Wednesday at the latest.
LOL, meanwhile wife’s Saab convertible sits here dead and MIL’s Saab sits at her place with a year-overdue inspection sticker and missing a headlight housing.
Oh well, PLENTY to do around here…
Hope you’re feeling betta, Mr. nick; my back pain seems to have disappeared on its own overnight, very strange, maybe just a pinched nerve.
Even stranger; wife’s Winblows 7 laptop crapped out yesterday and wouldn’t boot the o.s. again. Tried System Rescue, original installation rescue, Winblows 8 rescue, etc., etc. no joy in Mudville. Wouldn’t even install any of the Windows operating systems. Looked like the hard drive was hosed, but BIOS sees it, etc., etc. Final trick: loaded an Ubuntu Studio DVD I had lying around and it booted; only it didn’t boot the Ubuntu; it booted the original Windows 7 and all my wife’s stuff A-OK. No clue how this happened. So she’s taking that, plus my Mint netbook as a backup, which also has her PP slides and related chit. I’ll have to manage with this Win8 desktop and the other half-dozen Linux machines, I guess. And the Kindle. And the iPhone.
Until the Grid crashes….
“The really important thing that I need to do for prepping and real life, is to get to the point where I can mow our back yard without taking a break.”
Hahahaha….good luck with that, kemosabe. I dunno how old you are, but it gets tougher as we go along, ditto with carrying and stacking firewood, etc. But you bring up a very good point; PT and being in decent enough shape to mow a lawn or stack firewood without a break would be very good; and a first step along the way to being able to run around one’s AO, maybe carrying a load of some kind, and not necessarily mil-spec or lethal.
I get depressed some days when I recall playing football, running track, hiking up and down mountains, and walking foot beats all night, and then I read Max Velocity’s stuff about PT and the little tests he has for us to see if we’re in good enough condition to do his classes down there in West Virginia. i.e., as prep for doing SUT combat chit in one’s AO when everything goes to Hell.
If you’re digging a bit to level the ground and then put down a layer of stone and then pour concrete, it should be possible to dig a bit extra, drop in some sacks of no-longer-living protoplasm weighing between, say, 120 and 220 pounds, and then continue with the gravel and concrete. Just sayin’.
@SteveF
Thanks for making me glad that I’m a sack of living protoplasm weighing more than 220 pounds.
This story about the Divided Nations and the cholera epidemic in Haiti offends me because our federal tax dollars payed for 25% of it. When something goes wrong in the world, you can always count on the Divided Nations to bring in a huge pile of cholera infected human fecal matter in just the wrong place.
On a more important note, if UN peacekeepers move in upstream of my water supply, which (if any) Sawyer water filters are good enough to filter out cholera bacteria?
“I dunno how old you are, but it gets tougher as we go along, ditto with carrying and stacking firewood, etc.”
Funny, it goes slow, so you don’t notice day-to-day. But over the course of a year I get a fraction of the stuff done I did even 10 years ago. Build meters of dry stone wall over the summer? Nope, maybe I’ll get a couple of rooms painted. Frustrating, ’cause you don’t feel any older on the inside.
‘course, I’m preaching to the choir here…
“… making me glad that I’m a sack of living protoplasm weighing more than 220 pounds.”
+1,000! SIGNIFICANTLY more than 220 pounds, too!
“…because our federal tax dollars payed for 25% of it.”
I’ve been offended since I was a teenager by what happens to our tax dollars. And in the half-century since, it’s gotten a lot worse; both how they spend them and my being offended by it.
Another fun week during The Current Situation:
http://takimag.com/article/the_week_that_perished_takimag_april_17_2016/print#axzz46722sjhV
I was thinking about looking for an example of the metaphorical bovine excrement that our Federal Government does with out tax dollars, the inanity of which is only exceeded by the UN when I came across the story I mentioned earlier. Obviously I was being naive again. It’s not metaphorical bovine excrement, it’s literal cholera tainted human excrement.
For me half the problem is the siren song of cable TV and Netflix. Of course the Internet is also responsible. If I didn’t spend so much time in my new La-Z-Boy recliner in front of the boob tube, I wouldn’t be so out of shape.
Don’t forget all the child rape that the brave soldiers of the UN get up to in their time off. And time not off.
n
What started out as buying compliance instead of forcing it at gunboat, turned into ‘endless stream of money for the NGOs.’
n
“Obviously I was being naive again. It’s not metaphorical bovine excrement, it’s literal cholera tainted human excrement.”
Oh, I got that. Literally infected excrement from homo sapiens sapiens. The people who rule us and/or make these kinds of decisions either do it out of profound ignorance and negligence, or with malice aforethought. To wit, the previous and current disease outbreaks from swarms of carbon-based bipeds they keep letting into the country. And the continued profound silence about how HIV gets spread around and among whom. Hint: it’s not all Roman Catholic nuns and ten-year-old boys living at home with Mr. and Mrs. Ward Cleaver.
“If I didn’t spend so much time in my new La-Z-Boy recliner in front of the boob tube, I wouldn’t be so out of shape.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDrb7GCTlKI
I try to get out as much as I can, but I also deal with vestiges of bronchial asthma and occasional sore knees and back; tough chit excuses, I know. I’ll keep plugging at it, and frankly, could be doing more, except I also read a lot and watch movies on the pooter.
At least while you are sitting and reading, you are exercising your mind.
“At least while you are sitting and reading, you are exercising your mind.”
That’s right! And a mind is a terrible, terrible thing to waste, though I did my darndest for many decades.
Any of the Sawyer filters will stop bacteria, including the <$20 Mini. IIRC, the Mini gives a log7 reduction.
Rather than shopping for them and messing around with them, why not just deploy a couple of A-10 Warthogs with an AC-130 Spectre providing additional cover/firepower?
[snip] I managed to drop an ATX power supply three feet to the top of my head, corner first. [snip]
A close childhood friend is a worker’s compensation underwriter for a Very Large Insurance Co., in the Very Large accounts division. He once mentioned that the employees of some chain of music equipment shops manage to drop an amplifier on their heads about once per year, chain wide. When I said “Why in the name of God don’t you make them store those things on the floor?” he replied “Because then we’d have to pay for 12 blown backs per year instead of one crunched head and neck.” Brutal calculus, that.
[snip] Don’t forget all the child rape that the brave soldiers of the UN get up to in their time off. And time not off. [snip]
Or they can do like the Dutch soldiers in the breakup of Yugoslavia. “Hello, Mr. Serb army. You say you’d like to go in and kill all those people we’re supposed to be protecting. By all means, we’re not going to act like soldiers and actually protect them. Pro tip – don’t let the little girls keep a diary. Is very bad.”
“Brutal calculus, that.”
It is the sort of mathematics that our rulers and their military henchmen have employed for a long time, and then taken up by insurance companies, banks and financial speculators. We will see at some point how that math works in reverse:
Sergeant: “OK, Captain OFD, we’ve got all these lawyers and banksters lined up against the wall. Should we shoot them now?”
Captain OFD: “No, Sergeant. Ammunition is expensive and not enough people have learned to reload. Use shovels. Or baseball bats. Whatever.”
Sergeant: “Yes, sir.”
“…the brave soldiers of the UN…”
Models of probity and rectitude when compared with Afghan troops, evidently. You know, our allies that we trained and serve with….against the even worse Talib, A-Q and ISIL….?
@SteveF
Thanks for making me glad that I’m a sack of living protoplasm weighing more than 220 pounds.
Me too.
Uh-oh. 182 here.
Yikes! RBT is wasting away again in Margaritaville! Lookin’ for his lost shaker of salt!
245-250, 38″ flabwaist, 19″ neck, bad attitude. Usually armed.
Rather than shopping for them and messing around with them, why not just deploy a couple of A-10 Warthogs with an AC-130 Spectre providing additional cover/firepower?
Ah, the old if they won’t respect us then they will fear us argument. Works for a while and then starts the arms race (see Iraq over the last 12+ years).
I’m about 235. I don’t know that I’ve ever measured my waist or neck, but I wear 34″ pants. I finally got un-banged-up enough that I could start working out, a few months ago. Can deadlift well over my weight, limited by grip strength, which has gotten pathetic. Only bench about 200#, between the broken and dislocated wrist which never healed right and the damaged rotator cuff on the opposite shoulder, which hasn’t healed right; one or the other will really hurt if I push more weight than that.
I will note that it’s really funny to watch guys under half my age go swaggering in to the weight bars and then struggle to handle less weight than I, even scaled for body weight.
We had a guest preacher / bible class teacher this morning in church. Excellent speaker and teacher. Note that I have been a big fan of Intelligent Design since I heard about it. Anyway, one of his topics reinforced on this by stating that God designed his morals into our brains. We know what is right and wrong because God gave that to us. His chief example was why do we eat cows and not our dead grandmothers?
http://www.amazon.com/Christianity-Trial-Lawyer-Examines-Christian/dp/0830836675
Our grandmothers don’t taste like king crab?
n
Got the taxes finished and e-filed this afternoon. I got up and danced a jig when I realized Friday night that we were getting money back. We got back 7% of what we sent them over 2015 in our paychecks (I do not quarterly withhold but have our paychecks set at single with zero deductions). I was surprised since we made about a 40% profit on our commercial property due to very light repairs needed last year. The one big improvement that I made to the commercial property, paving the cutoff road, I have to depreciate over 39 years.
It only took the IRS server ten minutes to declare that they accepted our tax return. One additional thing that they did was require our drivers license numbers, begin date, and end date on our licenses. Due to all the fraud, I am OK with that. And, I am not surprised that they have that information.
It only took the IRS server ten minutes to declare that they accepted our tax return
Filed my taxes about 6 weeks ago. Did so on a Sunday evening. Money was in my bank account the following Thursday. E-File is really quick.
In re: taxes: If I get net access at the prison, I’ll try to post from there once in a while. If not, I’ll supply my snail mail addy.
If I get net access at the prison
While you are in prison you don’t need to file taxes.
You do get free medical, food, TV, A/C, gender reassignment, vision clothing. Basically a retirement plan that is better than many seniors in nursing homes.
I’ll be in prison for taxes not filed previously or due to some new error by the IRS not in our favor. It will probably be a very long sentence, too, longer than rapists and murderers get, but I’ll be in with them. Maybe I can learn something useful for if I ever get out. But much of the sentence will likely be in solitary, anyway.
And tonight’s snippets from The Current Situation Department:
http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2016/04/eisenhower-had-no-idea.html
http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2012/07/want-janitors-job.html
And from the We Suck Department:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/12/american-millennials-least-skilled-study_n_6852650.html
From the Famous Musicians Will Skip North Carolina Department:
https://earloftaint.com/2016/04/17/who-wants-a-nasty-old-transphibian-in-the-rest-room-with-their-daughters/
Shortwave Radio Disruption Department:
http://spaceweather.com/
Seeing the comments from others about short wave radio makes me wonder how odd and old that name seems now. If those radios use short waves, then what long wave systems are there? The AM radio in cars and what else? The ultra low frequency system that the US uses for one way communications with submarines?
I keep forgetting to mention this. More than one person keeps mentioning to use your preps. Last week I had a little reminder of how true that is. I was trying to open some cans, and couldn’t find the can opener. I finally gave up and decided to use the can opener on my multi tool. Those things are an annoying pain. It seemed to take forever, and I was only opening three cans, one of tomato paste and two of tomato sauce. The tomato paste can was a very small one, and I didn’t even bother to completely remove the lids of the tomato sauce cans. I’d hate to think what opening a #10 can would be like.
We’ve got at least four or five can openers up here, not counting them little P-whatevers from mil-spec, which work OK in a pinch. No electric openers.
“…then what long wave systems are there?”
http://www.lwca.org/
We’ve got two or three manual can openers, not counting a bunch of P-51’s. If worse comes to horrible, you can open cans just by pressing them against a flat concrete surface and rotating them to grind down the rim. I tried that once back in the 70’s, and it worked well. It took surprisingly little time and effort to crack the rim.
Slightly more back from Uncle than I owe the Governor. Bah, must pay Kalifornia a $6 penalty for not withholding enough.
I just use flat amounts (that are over the calculated amounts) on withholding. Need about $25 a paycheck added to state.
“… you can open cans just by pressing them against a flat concrete surface and rotating them to grind down the rim.”
Well I’ll be darned! Larn sumthin new every day here. I’ve also used a bayonet and various bowie-type knives for this caper in the past, but they suck compared to the standard-issue can opener.
Don’t most smaller to average cans have pull tops nowadays?
Hope mr lynn is loading his boat, water is getting deep here in TX.
I’ve got my whole street flooded, 18″ deep in the center in front of my house. Further down the culdesac, it’s 3ft.
We got over 9″ of rain since midnight and some areas are reporting 16-20.
That means my street is flooded because everything down stream is full.
Still raining too.
nick
Yikes. I hope you’re gonna be OK down there, Mr. nick. We’ve seen flooding like that up here in the river valleys and the state capital, which sits astride a river, but not where we are now. Other than nearby roads being underwater during that Tropical Storm Irene thing a while back, and that was lake overflow.
Widespread flooding here. Several bayous over their banks. Rain was on 3000 sqmi, which is 10 times as much as last big flood.
Still raining, and predicted for next 2 days.
My feeling is, chances of water supply being contaminated are 100%. We may not lose pressure, but I bet we end up under a boil order. So the tub is filled, a couple of bins are out in the rain, an extra aquatainer got filled. Rainwater collection is of course full.
275 gallons untreated rainwater in storage. 80 gallons chlorinated water in storage, 3 aquatainers ready to go, misc bottles of tap water stored. Filters and bleach ready if needed.
This is like a hurricane without the high winds. And more rain.
nick
Lynn wrote:
“We had a guest preacher / bible class teacher this morning in church. Excellent speaker and teacher. Note that I have been a big fan of Intelligent Design since I heard about it. Anyway, one of his topics reinforced on this by stating that God designed his morals into our brains. We know what is right and wrong because God gave that to us. His chief example was why do we eat cows and not our dead grandmothers?”
Knock it off Lynn, ID is just rebadged creationism. It’s fraudulent.
Good Hindus cremate their widows (alive) and don’t eat cows. Chinese and many other Asians eat dogs, cats, rats, politicians (but I repeat myself) and all sorts of other stuff.
Wow, nick, you sure are lucky to have those preparations in place.
(Yes, that was bitter sarcasm. I don’t know how many times I’ve been told that I’m lucky that I had tools and a gallon of coolant in the back of my car, or that I was carrying a pocket knife, or …)
Don’t really want to start a discussion of ID, but I’ll note that they willfully ignore evidence that is there while demanding that someone produce evidence to counter their ideas.
If I was a believer, I’d be comfortable with the idea that creation happened thru evolution- started and guided by a divine being, and leave it at that.
There isn’t ever a ‘leave it at that’ point for the trubelievers though….
nick
I will acknowledge luck played a part in one roadside repair. My brother and I borrowed my dad’s full-sized van and trailer to get a load of furniture and stuff from a couple hundred miles away. I always take my toolbox (about 40# of tools and small supplies) wherever I drive. I’d been meaning to clean out the junk, but hadn’t gotten around to it.
On the way, the transmission coolant line split. My brother diagnosed the problem, using the flashlight I also carried everywhere, then rummaged through the toolbox and made a repair with a few inches of hose that I certainly would have thrown away if I’d gotten to cleaning the toolbox, cutting away the split pipe using half a hacksaw blade that I also would have thrown away. (I let him take the lead on the repair. I’m good with cars, and could have gotten it done, but my brother and dad are really good. It would be like a short-order cook telling a world famous chef, sit back, I got this.)
I suppose it’s more accurate to say that luck and laziness contributed to being able to make a roadside repair. I have yet to integrate this into a cohesive philosophy.
@steveF,
yup, that’s me, lucky luck…
When I mentioned to my wife that she could ping the neighborhood FB group (the fastest route to real time updates on local conditions) regarding putting up some drinking water, she asks “do you REALLY think we’ll lose drinking water?”
YES, if it keeps on like now. All the waste treatment is overflowing into everything. If we lose power to a pumping station, and then pressure for water, it will be contaminate. If the water treatment is contaminated, we lose drinking water….
What can it possibly hurt to fill the tub, and fill whatever you have with drinking water???? There is NO downside and potentially huge upside.
I’m sure she’s worried about being thought a chicken little, or boy who cried wolf, but every person that doesn’t become dependent on the state is a WIN for us.
nick
BTW our mayor, who was a single issue candidate was looking a bit tired and shellshocked at this morning’s press conference. There’s more to running a city than fixing potholes Mr Mayor. And some folks are gonna die on your watch. And that is gonna suck.
He announced that several facilities are no longer responding to 911 calls due to their own issues…….
“… luck and laziness contributed to being able to make a roadside repair. I have yet to integrate this into a cohesive philosophy.”
Not a problem, simply enroll in your local community college’s Intro to Philosophy course and Bob’s yer uncle!
“… she asks “do you REALLY think we’ll lose drinking water?””
I get: “You don’t REALLY think this stuff is gonna happen, do you???”
“…He announced that several facilities are no longer responding to 911 calls due to their own issues…….”
Serious bidness, podner. Good that you can keep us informed, so fah. Juice and net still holding out, which can be tricky during flooding situations. Best wishes and prayers for y’all down there from yer northern correspondent….
We’ve gotten about nine inches of rain since 6pm last night. We are doing just fine and the Brazos has come up 6ft. The Brazos is forecast to come up another 27 ft in the next 48 hrs. That is why we have a 14 ft (86 ft sea level) levee between us and the Brazos. If the Brazos comes up to 50 ft on its gauge (78 ft sea level), we will still have 8 ft of levee protecting us.
http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=HGX&gage=RMOT2
@nick, sorry to hear about the flooding. I don’t live in Houston for several reasons and that is just one. We got 15 inches during TS Allison and had just street flooding where we lived at the time. These subdivisions built since 1980 are designed to handle 15 inches of rain. I really do not want to try more than that.
My brother lives close to North Braeswood and I-610, six blocks away from Braes Bayou. He built his new house five ft off the ground ten years ago because of TS Allison. He had 3 ft of water in his street then with that 35 inch rainfall.
We got 3 inches of water in the house in Dallas in 1989 at 5 am in the morning. I never, ever want to repeat that experience. Swinging my feet out of bed into water still gives my nightmares.
“Swinging my feet out of bed into water still gives my nightmares.”
Up here it would be ice, helluva way to wake up.
From the Famous Musicians Will Skip North Carolina Department:
It’s been pointed out many times that every one of those celibriturds that won’t perform in NC, don’t hesitate to perform in UAE, Saudi Arabia, etc., where they execute LBGT at the drop of a hat. Mo’ money, mo’ money.
Our neighborhood is already scheduled for upgraded stormwater, streets, sidewalks, and gutters. That’s what has had me looking at maps. Our HOA is opposed to the sidewalks. Selfish c*nts would rather see old people and kids walk in a busy street than lose the ability to park in their driveways (because their drives are on the right of way, and a sidewalk will make them too short to park without blocking the walk.)
That is NOT your property folks. If a driveway was important to you, you shouldn’t have bought a house with a drive completely on city property.
The upgrades involve putting large diameter storm drains under every street, essentially building large underground storage tanks. This collects and slows the floodwater, so it has somewhere to go.
Wife went and looked at our little ‘creek’ that is a drainage path for the neighborhood, and it’s pretty close to top of banks. It will flood out into a massive easement for power lines.
I have to say that the city has been very aggressive working on flooding issues in our area. There is a massive improvement over the floods of 2008.
nick
Could ya’ll in Tejas send some of that excess aqua to Vegas? Flying in from SLC on Friday, you could see a couple hundred feet of “white” bedrock do to the drop in Lake Mead. I’m thinking about blowing the dam further up the river. They are hoarding all of Vegas’ aqua. Bastards.
Mr Lynn,
check out http://www.srh.noaa.gov/rfcexp/main.php?fs=1 it combines some other sources into the map too. For instance, shows the monitor at beltway 8 and i10 near me.
n
Cool. I’ve already acknowledged you as my cool older brother. Now I’ve got an uncle. Now all I need is to acquire an apprentice or mentee or similar.
“…don’t hesitate to perform in UAE, Saudi Arabia, etc., where they execute LBGT at the drop of a hat.”
That’s one of the major defining characteristics of the Left: HYPOCRISY. Writ very large. “Do as I say, not as I do.” And “More taxes for thee but not for me.” “Free speech for me but not for thee.” (with apologies to Nat Hentoff).
“If a driveway was important to you, you shouldn’t have bought a house with a drive completely on city property.”
We have our version of those assholes up here; the imbeciles and cretins who bought houses on streets adjacent to an international airport down in Burlington where a VANG fighter-interceptor F16 squadron has been stationed for eons. So now they’re gonna upgrade to the very problematic F35 and the local yokels with their commie agitprop operators are up in arms about it. We say “tough shit, morons.”
Lots of good info sources as long as the grid is up.
I suppose if the grid is down we’ll have more pressing concerns.
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This is like a hurricane without the high winds. And more rain.
No waves and no tornadoes. Both of those are the major killers in hurricanes.
check out http://www.srh.noaa.gov/rfcexp/main.php?fs=1 it combines some other sources into the map too. For instance, shows the monitor at beltway 8 and i10 near me.
Cool!
Good to see that Sims Bayou by my sons house never came out of its new bank. They just finished widening that bayou from 20 ft to 100+ ft. And it is now a half mile wide down at Almeda Genoa.
And some morons are trying very hard to get the property owner drainage fee revoked and the City of Houston return the $400 million in payments. All that money has been spent on bayou improvements with many more to come. Brays Bayou is on schedule for widening from 300 ft to 1200 ft. Lots of houses that got flooded again today will be taken for that one.
http://www.chron.com/news/politics/houston/article/Judge-rules-city-obscured-cost-of-drainage-fee-6598615.php
My brother lives close to North Braeswood and I-610, six blocks away from Braes Bayou.
That’s near me. The bayou is full there, but we live north by about 8 blocks. Some of the houses flooded in May are flooded again.
Lots of people at an cluster of apartments on the north side bitching on TV that the city hasn’t been able to get to help them yet. The city is sending buses and the like to evacuate the people once they get out of their apartments. People left their apartments without their meds, no supplies, etc. One of the TV reporters tried to hector the county judge as to why game wardens haven’t been sent to rescue people, that private individuals and not cops are helping people get out of their houses and apartments. And why hadn’t he done anything to help them, it was on our channel. Jeez, what a maroon.
Should be thousands of people with suitable boats but we don’t have civil defense forces any longer. Trust the government. Your tax $$$ at work – good day to think about that.
Our tax money gets blown away on constant bullshit, plus endless wars, and supporting creepy hadji suckups like the Obolas and Huma and Cankles on their vacations and world tours. Tax money for weapons and ammo sold to and through various parties around the world and later used to maim and kill our own troops, i.e., our children, brothers, sisters, cousins, etc. None of them from the One Percent and the rulers who keep robbing us blind.
And the only thing the gummint learned from Katrina was how to make things even worse, evidently.
Never mind, STFU, citizen, pay your danegeld tax and be glad we don’t step on you harder (which we’re gonna do anyway, later).
I heard on Fox News this morning that something like 46.5% of people paid no Federal Income Tax. That’s pretty close to the 47% Romney said in 2012 that got him in trouble.
Until everybody has some skin in the game there will be no change.
IIRC, Romney’s 47% claim was initially denied by the usual suspects, and Romney was excoriated for racism, classism, and whateverism. When evidence was provided that Romney was about right, the usual suspects then shifted to saying that he shouldn’t have said it because it wasn’t acceptable, and Romney was excoriated for racism, classism, and whateverism.
But to be honest, it’s entirely possible I don’t remember that sequence of events. It followed the progtard playbook so perfectly that anyone could have predicted it as soon as Romney opened his mouth.
(Not that I have any use at all for Romney, except maybe as feedstock for the biodiesel plants. Tell ya, that was one election where I wish everyone had lost. Instead, the American people were the big losers. As is the case in an awful lot of elections. Funny how that works. It’s almost like the system is broken.)
“It’s almost like the system is broken.”
It is broken. It took big hits in 1787 and 1861, also 1947 and post-9/11. The national security state got ramped up something Yooooooooge and the commies finally won the Cold War without firing too many shots. SJWs, progs, BLM types, etc. are all hooked up tight with gummint, academia, media, etc. The commies didn’t get the real estate (they’ll get a bunch of that later) but they sure got the culture. What’s funny is they think guys like Mittens and Cruz are hardcore fascist pigs but they give away their historical ignorance. Those two guys are just about as bad as they are; they haven’t seen REAL fascism yet but they will.
Again, half the country pays for the other half and resents it more and more and is outraged by the last fifty years of events; that other half is outraged by our outrage. We could well be doing the 1850s Redux.