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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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Even better, ditch that stupid St. Augustine grass and put in something not so thirsty. |
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When they cut down all the trees and filled in the swamps to make shopping centers, what did you think would happen?
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St. Augustine grass is a lot of maintenance, but I know of no other that will take the SE FL heat for 12 months a year,,, have not seen any neighborhood that does not have 100% St. Augustine. I like the Las Vegas landscape approach, no grass, just cacti and rocks,,, NO DAMN MAINTENANCE!! |
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