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Post by oldcajun123 on Jun 6, 2020 12:29:27 GMT -5
Spent morning picking up deck lumber that was by the side of the road, renewing parts of deck. Putting trash in barn, Storm coming in, no pick up, can’t have that flying around. About an hour and a half truck shows up picking trash. What a Crock!  |
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Post by pepesdad1 on Jun 6, 2020 12:45:21 GMT -5
Prayers and good thoughts are with you...I got my generator set up and ready to go if we loose power.
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Post by puffy on Jun 6, 2020 13:13:56 GMT -5
Looks like a lot of rain headed your way Bradley
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Post by Legend Lover on Jun 7, 2020 12:48:43 GMT -5
I hope you're safe. Take care.
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Post by pepesdad1 on Jun 7, 2020 17:03:01 GMT -5
Dodged the bullet here in Tall....prayers and good thoughts to OldCajun and those in the path of this heavy rain-maker.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 7, 2020 23:06:38 GMT -5
Dodged the bullet here in Tall....prayers and good thoughts to OldCajun and those in the path of this heavy rain-maker. It passed 2 miles east of my nephew in Mandeville. It sounds like you got it worse than he did. |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jun 8, 2020 8:02:06 GMT -5
The thing was the Vermilion Parish Trash haulers DONT work on weekends, they always go on TV when they have a special,run, no TV announcement, had to haul everything I put on the side of the road in my barn, an hour and a half the damn truck shows up. We fared well, very dry for a tropical storm, very windy, tried to smoke on the porch, not good to smoke a stogie in a squall. Hey that would make a good song.
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Post by pappyjoe on Jun 11, 2020 6:25:50 GMT -5
Yep. In the Slidell area 30 miles east of New Orleans it was more of a tropical mist instead of a tropical storm. Normally during a heavy storm we get enough rain for the ground in the front yard to become spongy and our large backyard become swamp. The ground was solid enough so I could start mowing yesterday.
The wife and I drove from western Louisiana (around Fort Polk) back to Slidell on Sunday and we didn't hit the first rain until we got to Baton Rouge and that was just a mist. We had heavier rain on Wednesday morning after the storm had past.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 11, 2020 21:40:40 GMT -5
My nephew just bought a new 3700 sq ft dream home in Mandeville and I was worried about them, but nothing. It was good for his pump business. He sold 44 pumps the previous 5 days in anticipation. Mandeville is only 7 feet above sea level and he says no levy. I don't know about that.
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Post by pappyjoe on Jun 12, 2020 7:22:42 GMT -5
My nephew just bought a new 3700 sq ft dream home in Mandeville and I was worried about them, but nothing. It was good for his pump business. He sold 44 pumps the previous 5 days in anticipation. Mandeville is only 7 feet above sea level and he says no levy. I don't know about that. Part of it depends on where in Mandeville he lives. The area "across the street" from Lake Pontchartrain floods routinely. The areas along the Tchefuncte River between Mandeville and Madisonville also seem to flood annually. But the further they live from the water, the less likely they are to flood in my experience. Generally speaking, if they are north of Hwy. 190 or Hwy. 22 there is less flooding. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 12, 2020 15:32:48 GMT -5
South of 22, 450 feet from W. Causeway, a half mile south of Rouses.
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Post by just ol ed on Jun 12, 2020 22:21:57 GMT -5
different here for us city dwellers. Our hauler, the local ARC. Driver a city employee, two laborers per truck, both handicapped & do receive a stipend from the givement. They do great job. Unlimited recycle-ables weekly, limit two bags of landfill garbage per week. We have "low volume", little actual food garbage & just the two of us Seniors. Best deal vs a couple other competitors.
Ed Duncan, Batavia, NY
pipe/cigar since '62
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Post by trailboss on Jun 12, 2020 22:39:13 GMT -5
We have monthly bulk trash here, put it to the curb on the assigned week and they haul it all off.
It is a pretty nice option to get rid of anything from a tree, to a stove.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 12, 2020 22:41:55 GMT -5
I have to find out who picks up the trash out here in the sticks.
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Post by trailboss on Jun 13, 2020 13:56:43 GMT -5
Illegal dumping really chaps my hide.
I have ran into a few people doing so, and if I am by myself the license plate is recorded with a picture of the perps in the act.
In one instance, they started loading it back up, surely to just dump somewhere else. It is not worth getting shot over though.
If I owned commercial property, the first thing to go up would be hi-res cameras with night vision.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 13, 2020 21:36:29 GMT -5
I need game cameras to record the goings on in the burrows around the new property.
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