Things Noticeable this week

[Reclaimedwg]

Not sure whether to feel for those people who are already trapped in their attic with at least a day of torrential rains and downpours still coming;

right now the rain is coming down at 3-4 inches per hour.

They were told to leave and they didn't like the 150 or more folks in the coastal town of New Bern in the following article:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/14/us/hu...wxc/index.html

"In a matter of seconds, my house was flooded up to the waist, and now it is to the chest," said Peggy Perry, who along with three relatives, was trapped early Friday in her New Bern home. "We are stuck in the attic."

So they ignore the mandatory evacuation warnings and now they are trapped and are calling for help.

Rescuers can't get to them with the rising floodwater and high surges and strong winds and most of the eastern part of hurricane outside its eye still off the coast.

If you are in the attic and the water is rising in the rest of the house below you, you better have something that you can use to break through the roof and cut a hole large enough for you climb out on to the roof.

Even at that, once you are on the roof, you are subject to the elements: rain, wind, cold, hyporthemia setting in and pray that the flood water doesn't keep rising to cover the roof up.

Either way, your chances of being dead are pretty high.

Here's the prediction ahead:

... heavy rain and surge will continue for another 24 to 36 hours ...

... Florence's rain will reach 40 inches in some parts of the Carolinas ...

[bowlinggreen]

Originally Posted by wildtig2013

Looks like someone has something to answer for for collecting millions of $ every year from their natural gas using customers and not maintaining the underground gas lines infrastructures.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...-north-boston/

Andover been around since 1644, North Andover and Lawrence been around since 1846-1855.

Figure out when natural gas was first used in those cities leading to the installation of natural gas lines and who has been in charge of maintaining them.

Columbia Gas of Massachusetts is in charge of those lines.

They were at one time named Bay State Gas Company.

They are not Bay State Gas Company DBA (Doing Business As) Columbia Gas of Massachusetts.

They have been around since 1847 when they were called Springfield Gas Light Company

http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/bay-state-gas-company-history/

It is very possible some of those gas lines could be as old as 171 years!

Christ, I'd be really pissed if that happened to my house. I'd expect a new replacement, plus an extra half-million for losing my possessions and almost getting blown up.

There must have been a serious problem with the lines, or else the gas company would not have been "upgrading".

I wonder why all the leaks and fires INSIDE the houses? Sounds like overpressure in the system just blew out the valves in appliances. There's no real excuse for that on the part of the gas company.

You'd think modern meters would have an automatic shutoff if there is an overpressure condition. My electricity and water now have electronics built in that let some guy in a van read the usage remotely, can't they build in some safety features for gas meters?

[CARLTON BROWN]

Originally Posted by wildtig2013

Not sure whether to feel for those people who are already trapped in their attic with at least a day of torrential rains and downpours still coming; right now the rain is coming down at 3-4 inches per hour. They were told to leave and they didn't like the 150 or more folks in the coastal town of New Bern

Presumably, not everyone is trapped in their attic and some of these folk think they might be able to deal with a few problems by staying on their property and perhaps they are in slightly safer locations than others in the danger zone? Maybe there are also concerns about the possibility of looting and they want to protect what they have?

I've no real idea what the most sensible option is, but in my case, I might be willing to risk staying on if the odds seemed acceptable.

[seany65]

Originally Posted by wildtig2013

Up to 60 house exploding on the same day in 3 different cities, even when those 3 cities are within miles of each other, could be terrorism.

Someone can hack the software that control the gas pipelines and set it to overload the pressure and burst the pipes.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/14/us/ma...res/index.html

'5/4 on' that the russkies will be blamed.

[Greenman]

Watched the news last night and saw rain lashing into Wilimington and then later this afternoon huge waves coming in across the sea-it must be terrifying for anyone who thinks they can ride out this hurricane or storm; would have been better to get out fast.


You know that Blur song Parklife with the line "I get up when I want except on Wednesdays when I get rudely awaken by the dustman..." well two days running now it has been for me "I get up at 9.30am when I've been rudely awaken by a chainsaw!" Two doors down had their huge tree in their garden felled bit by bit and they started at 9am but it is almost impossible to ignore the whine of the machine. Unless the tree is ill or dead they may gain their garden space back but it means losing some privacy from the maisonettes in front of it.

[Reclaimedwg]

That will be a very bad way to die, trapped in the attic with the water rising to the top of the inside of it, and no way or mean to put a hole into the roof to climb out.

Unless you can hold your breath long enough to swim down through the ceiling panel (floor of the attic) and through the 2nd and 1st floor and out of the house but you may still drown after being pulled away by the raging flood waters.

[palo5]

Originally Posted by scoundrel

Britain has been finding ways to piss in Russia's coffee ever since Russia's 2014 aggression against Ukraine

You mean Britain being a peripheral nuisance

I've asked you many times to read about Crimean & Ukrainian history.What was the problem?

[Reclaimedwg]

Russia and China are now in cahoot worries me.

World War III is coming and USA may not exist after that.

Can't fight Russia and China at the same time on different fronts even if it's just a conventional war and at the same time still have to fight ISIS/ISIL and terrorists.

[charliels531]

Originally Posted by BondJmsBond

trailmaster has hit an amazing milestone here.

At one per second, that is 11+days...

[Wendigo]

Originally Posted by Greenman

You know that Blur song Parklife with the line "I get up when I want except on Wednesdays when I get rudely awaken by the dustman..." well two days running now it has been for me "I get up at 9.30am when I've been rudely awaken by a chainsaw!" Two doors down had their huge tree in their garden felled bit by bit and they started at 9am but it is almost impossible to ignore the whine of the machine. Unless the tree is ill or dead they may gain their garden space back but it means losing some privacy from the maisonettes in front of it.

I think they probably and pretty reasonably thought that by 9.30 most normal non-shift working people are up and about and not lying in bed dreaming about last night's marathon babestation session

Maybe you should hang up a sign alerting them