What might be making you a tad apprehensive, but might not, as it's too soon to tell - Page 27

Clodfobble · 08-23-2013, 10:50 PM

They'll have almost a year to get the insurance payout and rebuild. Bigger and better, I say.

BigV · 08-23-2013, 11:12 PM

with a wider no burn barrier

Griff · 08-24-2013, 09:19 AM

We went to Yellowstone a couple years after the burn and again 20 years later. It made for an interesting trip, so if you have a place to sleep it'll be cool.

glatt · 08-25-2013, 10:12 PM

According to their Facebook page, the manager was able to get back to the lodge today, and found that the fire fighters had saved all the buildings at the lodge. So next summer, we'll be staying in a nice lodge in the middle of an ash tray. It should be interesting.

Hope the wildfire slows down soon. I don't want all of Yosemite to be gone.

I saw in one article that they didn't have any federal aircraft fighting the fire initially because of the sequestration. It wasn't until it was huge and out of control that the Feds found funds somewhere to fight it. But now it's too late. It gonna just keep burning.

monster · 08-26-2013, 02:27 PM

Retrospectively......I was shitting bricks leading up to Hebe's driving test. But she passed, so all is well

glatt · 08-26-2013, 04:15 PM

Way to go, Hebe!

Now she can drive herself to everything.

Griff · 08-26-2013, 04:56 PM

Lil Griff is driving everywhere now. Its nice but Dads worry.

busterb · 08-31-2013, 10:39 AM

Ultrasound of liver, the 16th.

Griff · 09-04-2013, 06:36 AM

It keeps on coming, doesn't it b?

The UPK I'm supposed to integrate with is way under numbers. So I left a highly subscribed one with a terrible co-teacher for a good teacher but no kids. Normally our organization would just take the hit expecting our special ed services to absorb the funding hole but the sequestration disaster nuked our bottom line so...

Lamplighter · 09-04-2013, 12:00 PM

UPK = Universal Pre-Kindergarden ?

Griff · 09-04-2013, 07:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

UPK = Universal Pre-Kindergarden ?

Yeah. We added a new kid this morning but still not good.

Big Sarge · 09-04-2013, 05:40 PM

The 10 year old girl next door is a latch key kid. She lives with her grandmother with whom I have spoken to only once. She & her brothers have used my phone before to call their grandmother or father, but always on the front porch. Today, she came home and the power was off at her house. I think they didn't pay the bill. Anyway she needed to use the bathroom. I let her in to use it, but I was here alone. She was here less than 5 minutes, but you know how things are now days. What would you have done??

orthodoc · 10-22-2013, 10:10 PM

Going on a coal-mine tour tomorrow. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity, somewhat ironically - after all, the people who work the mines get plenty of opportunity. Outsiders don't, however. I believe this is a long-wall mine. The thought of hydraulic shocks moving along as the shearer cuts into the seam, and the area behind collapsing ... makes me apprehensive.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longwall_mining.

I will try to get some pics, although I suspect only pics on the surface will be allowed.

Griff · 10-23-2013, 06:42 AM

Next time I want to bitch about my job reflecting on coal-mining would put an end to that.

glatt · 10-23-2013, 09:16 AM

Let us know how it goes! My grandfather used to talk about the coal mines all the time, but refused to ever step foot into one. Even museum ones that were deemed perfectly safe for the public to visit. The stories he told were amazing. Some crazy stuff happened in PA mines in the last century.

08-23-2013, 10:50 PM	#1
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	They'll have almost a year to get the insurance payout and rebuild. Bigger and better, I say. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

08-23-2013, 11:12 PM	#2
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	with a wider no burn barrier __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

08-24-2013, 09:19 AM	#3
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	We went to Yellowstone a couple years after the burn and again 20 years later. It made for an interesting trip, so if you have a place to sleep it'll be cool. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

08-26-2013, 02:27 PM	#5
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Retrospectively......I was shitting bricks leading up to Hebe's driving test. But she passed, so all is well __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

08-26-2013, 04:56 PM	#7
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Lil Griff is driving everywhere now. Its nice but Dads worry. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

08-25-2013, 10:12 PM	#4
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	According to their Facebook page, the manager was able to get back to the lodge today, and found that the fire fighters had saved all the buildings at the lodge. So next summer, we'll be staying in a nice lodge in the middle of an ash tray. It should be interesting. Hope the wildfire slows down soon. I don't want all of Yosemite to be gone. I saw in one article that they didn't have any federal aircraft fighting the fire initially because of the sequestration. It wasn't until it was huge and out of control that the Feds found funds somewhere to fight it. But now it's too late. It gonna just keep burning.

08-26-2013, 04:15 PM	#6
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Way to go, Hebe! Now she can drive herself to everything.

08-31-2013, 10:39 AM	#8
busterb NSABFD Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: MS. usa Posts: 3,908	Ultrasound of liver, the 16th. __________________ I've haven't left very deep footprints in the sands of time. But, boy I've left a bunch.

09-04-2013, 06:36 AM	#9
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	It keeps on coming, doesn't it b? The UPK I'm supposed to integrate with is way under numbers. So I left a highly subscribed one with a terrible co-teacher for a good teacher but no kids. Normally our organization would just take the hit expecting our special ed services to absorb the funding hole but the sequestration disaster nuked our bottom line so... __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

09-04-2013, 12:00 PM	#10
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	UPK = Universal Pre-Kindergarden ?

09-04-2013, 05:40 PM	#12
Big Sarge Werepandas - lurking in your shadows Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: In the Deep South Posts: 3,408	The 10 year old girl next door is a latch key kid. She lives with her grandmother with whom I have spoken to only once. She & her brothers have used my phone before to call their grandmother or father, but always on the front porch. Today, she came home and the power was off at her house. I think they didn't pay the bill. Anyway she needed to use the bathroom. I let her in to use it, but I was here alone. She was here less than 5 minutes, but you know how things are now days. What would you have done?? __________________ Give a man a match, & he'll be warm for 20 seconds. But toss that man a white phosphorus grenade and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

10-22-2013, 10:10 PM	#13
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	Going on a coal-mine tour tomorrow. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity, somewhat ironically - after all, the people who work the mines get plenty of opportunity. Outsiders don't, however. I believe this is a long-wall mine. The thought of hydraulic shocks moving along as the shearer cuts into the seam, and the area behind collapsing ... makes me apprehensive. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longwall_mining. I will try to get some pics, although I suspect only pics on the surface will be allowed. __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

10-23-2013, 06:42 AM	#14
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Next time I want to bitch about my job reflecting on coal-mining would put an end to that. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

10-23-2013, 09:16 AM	#15
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Let us know how it goes! My grandfather used to talk about the coal mines all the time, but refused to ever step foot into one. Even museum ones that were deemed perfectly safe for the public to visit. The stories he told were amazing. Some crazy stuff happened in PA mines in the last century.

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