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Post by toshtego on Jan 23, 2020 10:13:37 GMT -5
+10 degrees (F), packed snow cover about 8 inches, some drifts to 19 inches. What Winter used to be like here. Glad for it and hope the Spring stays cool enugh so all the snow does not melt and flow down the creek in a few weeks. We wantem slow here.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 23, 2020 10:18:39 GMT -5
+10 degrees (F), packed snow cover about 8 inches, some drifts to 19 inches. What Winter used to be like here. Glad for it and hope the Spring stays cool enugh so all the snow does not melt and flow down the creek in a few weeks. We wantem slow here.
Hopefully Jemez Springs is having a great winter. Our friends told us that the winter we went cross country skiing there in 79 was the last time they had any snow to speak of. It was the most beautiful thing that we had ever seen. |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jan 23, 2020 10:30:09 GMT -5
 Big rain last night in Cajun Land, clearing up but breezy and chilly. Zeroing my humidity meters with salt and distilled water. Got 4 small cigar humidors and now a Wineador, checking on a muffin fan as per Tosh, to circulate the air in my winedor. Termite crew came Tuesday to redo termite job, 3 workers under house, even big boss man came and put coveralls and went under the house. Had to keep buddy in the house all day as Indidnt want him drinking the Termidor poison they use.
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Post by Lady Margaret on Jan 23, 2020 14:12:25 GMT -5
Glad to see you post Margaret..Hope things are getting better for you. Thanks! Now if my sinuses would decide whether or not they want to be congested or clear up I'd be doing better, lol. |
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Post by Lady Margaret on Jan 23, 2020 14:17:06 GMT -5
Wow Margaret... I have to say that your mother is blessed to have such a solid family that is there to support her in such trying times, and although your husband is in the military, you are soldiering on through a tough set of circumstances. I was plagued with bloody noses as a kid, even when I won a fist fight I looked like the victim.... I hope that your situation goes away, with time mine did. Thank you, though it's a thankless job, lol. She fights us about what is good for her, and turns around trying to get away with what's bad for her. I hated leaving the house because I looked awful, but fortunately we got it taken care of. I hardly ever get bloody noses, the last one was about 12 years ago, but it was also in the winter, I just have to be more careful. And I'm carrying Afrin with me.... |
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Post by Lady Margaret on Jan 23, 2020 14:20:21 GMT -5
Lady Margaret , that's an eventful few weeks. You're certainly honouring your mother - there's no doubt about that. It sounds tiring though. Good to see you around again. Thank you, it is tiring. Especially tiring is being treated like I'm being mean to her when we're just trying to keep her safe. You would think after falling and all she went through she'd be diligent to keep from having it happen again, but she seems bent on doing the exact same thing. It's like having a toddler again.... Good to be back. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2020 14:23:17 GMT -5
 That look you get after smoking Captain Black Grape! |
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Post by Lady Margaret on Jan 23, 2020 15:50:59 GMT -5
That look you get after smoking Captain Black Grape!  |
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Post by addamsruspipe on Jan 23, 2020 17:24:09 GMT -5
So been the ER with my asthmatic daughter for 5 hours. They have decided to admit her. Will likely take another 3 to 6 hours to get a room. Isn't modern medicine wonderful
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Post by Lady Margaret on Jan 23, 2020 18:47:02 GMT -5
So been the ER with my asthmatic daughter for 5 hours. They have decided to admit her. Will likely take another 3 to 6 hours to get a room. Isn't modern medicine wonderful 😀 oh wow, you are in my thoughts! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2020 19:24:32 GMT -5
Hang in there Eric.
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Post by trailboss on Jan 23, 2020 23:47:16 GMT -5
+1 It is a tough road to travel seeing your kid sick, depending on others to provide relief and wishing you could bear it for them... part of the process. I travelled to our Southern California facility, it is in Vernon Ca.... I hauled a lot of meat out of here back in the 80’s... I was dreading to trip, it was pretty much an armpit of LA back in the day, heavily industrialized and it showed it. It has undergone a change, many new buildings, and a lot of the old stores remain... king taco being one. A multi storied gym with windows for people to work out in, from what I saw mostly millenials that probably choose to live in an industrial town... navigating the hellish freeway traffic, I can understand why... if you have to work here, why spend your life commuting to the burbs? I am dropping 40,000 pounds of acid tomorrow, I think I probably have a forum record in that regard. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 24, 2020 0:42:40 GMT -5
+1 It is a tough road to travel seeing your kid sick, depending on others to provide relief and wishing you could bear it for them... part of the process. I travelled to our Southern California facility, it is in Vernon Ca.... I hauled a lot of meat out of here back in the 80’s... I was dreading to trip, it was pretty much an armpit of LA back in the day, heavily industrialized and it showed it. It has undergone a change, many new buildings, and a lot of the old stores remain... king taco being one. A multi storied gym with windows for people to work out in, from what I saw mostly millenials that probably choose to live in an industrial town... navigating the hellish freeway traffic, I can understand why... if you have to work here, why spend your life commuting to the burbs? I am dropping 40,000 pounds of acid tomorrow, I think I probably have a forum record in that regard. ☀️😜👌😍🤯 |
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Post by addamsruspipe on Jan 24, 2020 8:54:28 GMT -5
Thanks everyone. The hospital finally got us into a room around 7pm. Wife then arrived and we switched. I got to go home to handle the rest of the kids. Based on history we are looking at a 3 to 7 day stay. So it's going to be a long week. 😀
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Post by dervis on Jan 24, 2020 9:10:47 GMT -5
Beautiful morning. Nice light rain while the world wakes up. Another sunrise in the books earlier. I never get tired of them. Everything is fed and watered. Chickens donated some eggs for breakfast. Enjoying breakfast and coffee on the porch before work . Pipe full of FVF for the ride in.
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Post by toshtego on Jan 24, 2020 10:07:49 GMT -5
I am dropping 40,000 pounds of acid tomorrow, I think I probably have a forum record in that regard.
You will likely feel much better once that is over with tomorrow.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 24, 2020 10:10:42 GMT -5
Thanks everyone. The hospital finally got us into a room around 7pm. Wife then arrived and we switched. I got to go home to handle the rest of the kids. Based on history we are looking at a 3 to 7 day stay. So it's going to be a long week. 😀 Sorry to hear about this. Glad they finally got you squared away. I had to take our son to the emergency room once when he was about 6. I walked in and he was blue and limp in my arms. They snatched him away and rushed off. A shot and he was running laps in 30 minutes. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 24, 2020 10:20:23 GMT -5
Wife woke me up this morning around 4:30 and asked me what was that. I was asleep and went back to sleep. Seems like there was a huge explosion at a plant 30 miles away. Homes within 5 miles are shifted off their foundations. One person is missing and one is in the hospital. Some kind of gas used for welding and cutting leaked and apparently filled the huge main building. DARPA is investigating.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jan 24, 2020 10:35:05 GMT -5
Valve shop is what news said, first I heard I was on it as Son works in Woodlands.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2020 11:25:00 GMT -5
They don't make much around the Woodlands except for drugs in the top secret animal lab. I lived there for 11 years. This plant was a good 35 miles from there. But it does sit next to a trash heap that one of the disposal companies draws methane off of, Watson Valve Service and I have heard it called everything under the sun this morning name wise on the news.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 24, 2020 11:37:49 GMT -5
Valve shop is what news said, first I heard I was on it as Son works in Woodlands. They specialize in grinding ball valves up to 53". They also do special anti corrosion coating and other related jobs. Now 2 are confirmed dead. Could have been worse. The damage to the area homes is really bad. Thousands of homes are going to have to be torn down and rebuilt. |
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Post by toshtego on Jan 24, 2020 15:59:38 GMT -5
Valve shop is what news said, first I heard I was on it as Son works in Woodlands. They specialize in grinding ball valves up to 53". They also do special anti corrosion coating and other related jobs. Now 2 are confirmed dead. Could have been worse. The damage to the area homes is really bad. Thousands of homes are going to have to be torn down and rebuilt. A sad outcome. The unintended consequence of no planning or zoning. There is a reason much of the country regulates land use. These industrial accidents in Houston are one of them. |
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Post by puffy on Jan 24, 2020 18:46:11 GMT -5
It's been a dreary,rainy day here in Carolina..It's been raining on and off (mostly on) for about 18 hours.It's still raining..The radar looks like it could clear up by morning.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2020 21:48:23 GMT -5
They specialize in grinding ball valves up to 53". They also do special anti corrosion coating and other related jobs. Now 2 are confirmed dead. Could have been worse. The damage to the area homes is really bad. Thousands of homes are going to have to be torn down and rebuilt. A sad outcome. The unintended consequence of no planning or zoning. There is a reason much of the country regulates land use. These industrial accidents in Houston are one of them. This time it was actually in a industrial zone and the homes where all a good distance away. Years ago when Pepcon went off in Vegas it broke windows up to ten miles away. Now that was a explosion with a mushroom cloud and a beefy after shock.  |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 24, 2020 23:23:08 GMT -5
They specialize in grinding ball valves up to 53". They also do special anti corrosion coating and other related jobs. Now 2 are confirmed dead. Could have been worse. The damage to the area homes is really bad. Thousands of homes are going to have to be torn down and rebuilt. A sad outcome. The unintended consequence of no planning or zoning. There is a reason much of the country regulates land use. These industrial accidents in Houston are one of them. It's all of Texas. Land developers control everything. Always have. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 24, 2020 23:24:31 GMT -5
A sad outcome. The unintended consequence of no planning or zoning. There is a reason much of the country regulates land use. These industrial accidents in Houston are one of them. This time it was actually in a industrial zone and the homes where all a good distance away. Years ago when Pepcon went off in Vegas it broke windows up to ten miles away. Now that was a explosion with a mushroom cloud and a beefy after shock. There were homes a block away. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 24, 2020 23:42:58 GMT -5
Watson Grinding has been there for 50 years. All the homes have built up to it. Any further west and they would be in the flood area from Addicks Reservoir where they would be flooded if we got a heavy rain. We did and they did. So there are hundreds of homes between the plant and the the reservoir.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 24, 2020 23:50:52 GMT -5
Back around 1990ish there was a compressed gas plant that blew up in Spring Branch, with acetylene and oxygen bottles going through people's roofs a half mile away. Then there is the fertilizer plant in the middle of West, Texas. And who can forget the port in Texas City, where two freighters loaded with ammonium nitrate. Town flattened and 500+ killed. Roads in Baytown go through refineries with pipes over the road.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jan 25, 2020 0:13:12 GMT -5
Ron my Father, Mother and I left Texas City 2 weeks before the blast, Dad was welding for Chicago Bridge and Iron at a plant, job was finished and we went back to Louisiana. We went back after the blast, I've got pictures they took of the wreckage, it was some kind of bad.
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Post by toshtego on Jan 25, 2020 0:17:08 GMT -5
There was a big explosion in Houston last year (2019). I cannot recall the details. I think it was related to LPG and Hank Hill but not certain.
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Big rain last night in Cajun Land, clearing up but breezy and chilly. Zeroing my humidity meters with salt and distilled water. Got 4 small cigar humidors and now a Wineador, checking on a muffin fan as per Tosh, to circulate the air in my winedor. Termite crew came Tuesday to redo termite job, 3 workers under house, even big boss man came and put coveralls and went under the house. Had to keep buddy in the house all day as Indidnt want him drinking the Termidor poison they use.
