Water is a comming!

[6spdC6]

Originally Posted by Bruze

Hey 6-speed: I'm only 200-some miles away from you and although we've been getting some rain lately, we had a very dry winter and near drought conditions according to the weather peeps. This was a couple of months ago.

We had a strange winter. The snow we did not get finely came in. After that just for shits and giggles we started getting lots of rain.

We are getting what is called floaters. Docks, swim platforms and wood lawn furniture floating down and heading for the dam. We also see trees floating. Lots of beach erosion! Going to need a lot of beach work this year.

[Bruze]

Originally Posted by 6spdC6

We had a strange winter. The snow we did not get finely came in. After that just for shits and giggles we started getting lots of rain.

We are getting what is called floaters. Docks, swim platforms and wood lawn furniture floating down and heading for the dam. We also see trees floating. Lots of beach erosion! Going to need a lot of beach work this year.

You can be a Beach Boy!

[6spdC6]

Originally Posted by Bruze

You can be a Beach Boy!

Nope cannot carry a tune in a bushel basket and do not do illegal drugs. I have enough legal ones to take!

[Yadkin]

Originally Posted by 96 Vette CE

Shooting for 30 years, a couple more to go

In Connecticut, where I worked for StateCo for a year, a full pension required a mere 20 years. Guys I worked with retired at 42 years old.

[Yadkin]

Originally Posted by Bruze

*coming



I think it's "water under the bridge."

Or maybe it's "water over the bridge."

Or maybe it's:

"Over the river and through the woods
To Grandmother's house we go . . . "

We have several low water bridges here in NC. Not passable during a storm. So yeah, "water over the bridge" is a thing.

Engineering geek tidbit for today: Low water bridges are built so the upstream girder is lower than the rest, and each downstream is progressively higher. In other words, the deck is slanted downward towards the upstream side. That way a log is less likely to get jammed in the girders.

[GTOguy]

Originally Posted by Yadkin

We have several low water bridges here in NC. Not passable during a storm. So yeah, "water over the bridge" is a thing.

Engineering geek tidbit for today: Low water bridges are built so the upstream girder is lower than the rest, and each downstream is progressively higher. In other words, the deck is slanted downward towards the upstream side. That way a log is less likely to get jammed in the girders.

You'd be great taking the rest of us on a field trip in a van or bus, announcing shit like this. Seriously. I'd sign up. (I never knew about the girders)
Yadkin Tours: "Just ask the driver if you want to know!"
25 years ago, my father and I flew back to Chicago to go to my grandmother's funeral in Valparaiso, IND. On the return trip, we had time to kill, so we went to one of the closed down steel mills and stopped and dad told me every step the steel went through, from the smelting pot to the pour to the beams to sheet. He worked there in the summers of '47--'50 to go through college. Gary Indiana. It was fascinating stuff. He saw one guy fall into the vat and there was just a brief hiss of steam. Another guy, a huge black guy in his 30's, was a heroin addict and would race his Indian flat out around the plant on bets. The Mexicans would get drunk on Lucky Tiger hair tonic because it was cheaper than wine, and stronger. Fascinating stuff. He hardly ever talked about the past, and I soaked it up.

[Yadkin]

Originally Posted by GTOguy

You'd be great taking the rest of us on a field trip in a van or bus, announcing shit like this. Seriously. I'd sign up. (I never knew about the girders)
Yadkin Tours: "Just ask the driver if you want to know!"
25 years ago, my father and I flew back to Chicago to go to my grandmother's funeral in Valparaiso, IND. On the return trip, we had time to kill, so we went to one of the closed down steel mills and stopped and dad told me every step the steel went through, from the smelting pot to the pour to the beams to sheet. He worked there in the summers of '47--'50 to go through college. Gary Indiana. It was fascinating stuff. He saw one guy fall into the vat and there was just a brief hiss of steam. Another guy, a huge black guy in his 30's, was a heroin addict and would race his Indian flat out around the plant on bets. The Mexicans would get drunk on Lucky Tiger hair tonic because it was cheaper than wine, and stronger. Fascinating stuff. He hardly ever talked about the past, and I soaked it up.

I was always pointing out stuff like that for my kids. When I'm with friends, I like to point out hidden infrastructure, like a "fake" building that is actually a water treatment plant. When we went to Paris with some friends, there were several examples of that. The French are masters of disguise.

[Bruze]

Originally Posted by GTOguy

You'd be great taking the rest of us on a field trip in a van or bus, announcing shit like this. Seriously. I'd sign up. (I never knew about the girders)
Yadkin Tours: "Just ask the driver if you want to know!"
25 years ago, my father and I flew back to Chicago to go to my grandmother's funeral in Valparaiso, IND. On the return trip, we had time to kill, so we went to one of the closed down steel mills and stopped and dad told me every step the steel went through, from the smelting pot to the pour to the beams to sheet. He worked there in the summers of '47--'50 to go through college. Gary Indiana. It was fascinating stuff. He saw one guy fall into the vat and there was just a brief hiss of steam. Another guy, a huge black guy in his 30's, was a heroin addict and would race his Indian flat out around the plant on bets. The Mexicans would get drunk on Lucky Tiger hair tonic because it was cheaper than wine, and stronger. Fascinating stuff. He hardly ever talked about the past, and I soaked it up.

The Yaddy tour all in 47 seconds!

YouTube

[jw38]

Originally Posted by Yadkin

Why wait? I left there shortly after I graduated college: "As soon as I could."

**** that. I left at 19.

[Red Baron]

Originally Posted by Yadkin

I was always pointing out stuff like that for my kids. When I'm with friends, I like to point out hidden infrastructure, like a "fake" building that is actually a water treatment plant. When we went to Paris with some friends, there were several examples of that. The French are masters of disguise.

Come to think of it, the Yanks were pretty sharp when it came to dubious disguise and concealment, too...

[markids77]

Originally Posted by 96 Vette CE

Trust me, as soon as I can retire we are out of this Liberal shithole

Come to Georgia... we have constitutional carry, PETA does not tell us who to buy eggs from, property taxes outside the major met areas are fair, and I can still buy a gallon of milk for about $3.00.

[Yadkin]

Originally Posted by markids77

Come to Georgia... we have constitutional carry, PETA does not tell us who to buy eggs from, property taxes outside the major met areas are fair, and I can still buy a gallon of milk for about $3.00.

But, Atlanta.

[markids77]

Originally Posted by Yadkin

But, Atlanta.

Hence my caveat about major metropolitan areas. There are 136 counties in this State... easy to choose a "safe place".

[Yadkin]

Originally Posted by markids77

Hence my caveat about major metropolitan areas. There are 136 counties in this State... easy to choose a "safe place".

Yes, but you have some blue contamination in several areas that need disinfection.

[GTOguy]

I have thought of Georgia, Tennessee, and Florida as a final landing spot. The S.O loves it here, but things are so far off course it's getting to me. If I lived in a liberal area of the state I'd already be gone.

[Yadkin]

Originally Posted by GTOguy

I have thought of Georgia, Tennessee, and Florida as a final landing spot. The S.O loves it here, but things are so far off course it's getting to me. If I lived in a liberal area of the state I'd already be gone.

I just drove through KY last week. Almost no traffic on the Cumberland Highway. No litter. Beautiful rolling hills landscape. Much lower population than TN.

[Onebadcad]

Have not seen a good rain in SE FL for over six weeks.

I have the sprinklers on daily, BUT appears two heads are toast, I bet that will cost me at least $500 for a consult.

[vettemed]

Originally Posted by Onebadcad

Have not seen a good rain in SE FL for over six weeks.

I have the sprinklers on daily, BUT appears two heads are toast, I bet that will cost me at least $500 for a consult.

Can't you just kneel down and unscrew em, then screw the new ones back on?

Even better, ditch that stupid St. Augustine grass and put in something not so thirsty.

[Jughead]

[Yadkin]

Originally Posted by Onebadcad

Have not seen a good rain in SE FL for over six weeks.

I have the sprinklers on daily, BUT appears two heads are toast, I bet that will cost me at least $500 for a consult.

When they cut down all the trees and filled in the swamps to make shopping centers, what did you think would happen?