No Water!
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Funny story:
When Hurricane Ivan menaced the Florida Panhandle (2004) we got out of town for a few days, as is the wisdom in that region. Upon our return from Birmingham, Alabama (which was windy and wet enough, thank you very much) we could see the devastation increasing as we got closer and closer to the coast.
Imagine our surprise when we got home and discovered that -- although the power pole had been knocked down and the line from the street was on the ground -- my electricity worked just fine and wasn't that an odd stroke of luck? Of course, it wasn't safe so we had to call the power company to have the service shut off.
There's another thread on here somewhere about irony . . . I think me having to call Gulf Electric to have my power turned off while everyone else in my neighborhood was calling for . . . yeah . . . I think that qualifies.
Anyway, what I remember most about not having water -- and some didn't have it for more than a month -- was the high school kids, Junior ROTC really pitched in to distribute food and water to a lot of people who didn't have any. Them and the Red Cross.
Another funny thing: Most people don't remember Hurricane Ivan. Ivan got upstaged a year later by a naughtier hurricane that took a similar path but got sassy with a bigger city. You all remember that one, I'll bet.
When Hurricane Ivan menaced the Florida Panhandle (2004) we got out of town for a few days, as is the wisdom in that region. Upon our return from Birmingham, Alabama (which was windy and wet enough, thank you very much) we could see the devastation increasing as we got closer and closer to the coast.
Imagine our surprise when we got home and discovered that -- although the power pole had been knocked down and the line from the street was on the ground -- my electricity worked just fine and wasn't that an odd stroke of luck? Of course, it wasn't safe so we had to call the power company to have the service shut off.
There's another thread on here somewhere about irony . . . I think me having to call Gulf Electric to have my power turned off while everyone else in my neighborhood was calling for . . . yeah . . . I think that qualifies.
Anyway, what I remember most about not having water -- and some didn't have it for more than a month -- was the high school kids, Junior ROTC really pitched in to distribute food and water to a lot of people who didn't have any. Them and the Red Cross.
Another funny thing: Most people don't remember Hurricane Ivan. Ivan got upstaged a year later by a naughtier hurricane that took a similar path but got sassy with a bigger city. You all remember that one, I'll bet.
I remember Ivan. Not only did it hit you guys it hit us (Southeast of you). It went through the panhandle exited on the Atlantic and then weirdly went South and hit us as a tropical storm in between the two hurricanes that hit us. We had a hell of a September 2004.
Kaden's school just called, and said to continue boiling the water. All I can think of is the westerns I watch. Every time someone got hurt, the doc always said, 'boil some water'.
I remember Ivan. Not only did it hit you guys it hit us (Southeast of you). It went through the panhandle exited on the Atlantic and then weirdly went South and hit us as a tropical storm in between the two hurricanes that hit us. We had a hell of a September 2004.
the year The Dark Tower was published and reading it while hoping I'd know the last pages before being blow away! That was a year to remember.
Oh my word, free flowing, and free of pathogens, on demand clean water, I remember that, twas way tres' cool and groovy stuff
I just called the water department to find out how much longer we have to boil water. They said it is being tested tomorrow, and they are letting a local news station know so they can report it.
Karen just rode by where it happened, and she said they are still working on it.
Karen just rode by where it happened, and she said they are still working on it.
Oh my word, free flowing, and free of pathogens, on demand clean water, I remember that, twas way tres' cool and groovy stuff
Never experienced a water failure here, the only times I don't have water is because of announced maintainance.
Power does cut out now and then, but never longer then a few hours. Although it once was a real pain in the rear for the company I work for when it happened the Thursday before Christmas, as that's about the busiest day of the entire year. I work for a company that cuts and packages fresh vegetables and fruit, so it's not that we can produce to stock. It really must happen that very day, so you really don't want the power to be out for a couple of hours (the reason was that an excavator, preparing ground for a roundabout nearby, cut a powerline in the ground).
Elsewhere in the country however, people living near a river sometimes have to be evacuated after heavy rainfall elsewhere in Europe, as the Netherlands is pretty much Europe's lowest point (I myself live 1,80m/6ft below the avarage sea level).
About trucks that hit stuff, I'm sure the incident Pegasus216 refers to was an accident, but we had a real idiot last week in a nearby village. I know most of you can't read it (or maybe you can, after all Dutch uses the same letters as English, but you won't understand what it says), but for the picture: Vrachtwagenchauffeur (53) richt ravage aan op de wegen tussen Nibbixwoud en Wijdenes - 112WestFriesland.nl
The biggest problem was that, being 6 meters or 20 feet tall, he hit an overhead powerline on a railway crossing. The train that happened to be near that crossing at that moment had to be rescued by a steam locomotive from a museum that's (luckily) located nearby.
Power does cut out now and then, but never longer then a few hours. Although it once was a real pain in the rear for the company I work for when it happened the Thursday before Christmas, as that's about the busiest day of the entire year. I work for a company that cuts and packages fresh vegetables and fruit, so it's not that we can produce to stock. It really must happen that very day, so you really don't want the power to be out for a couple of hours (the reason was that an excavator, preparing ground for a roundabout nearby, cut a powerline in the ground).
Elsewhere in the country however, people living near a river sometimes have to be evacuated after heavy rainfall elsewhere in Europe, as the Netherlands is pretty much Europe's lowest point (I myself live 1,80m/6ft below the avarage sea level).
About trucks that hit stuff, I'm sure the incident Pegasus216 refers to was an accident, but we had a real idiot last week in a nearby village. I know most of you can't read it (or maybe you can, after all Dutch uses the same letters as English, but you won't understand what it says), but for the picture: Vrachtwagenchauffeur (53) richt ravage aan op de wegen tussen Nibbixwoud en Wijdenes - 112WestFriesland.nl
The biggest problem was that, being 6 meters or 20 feet tall, he hit an overhead powerline on a railway crossing. The train that happened to be near that crossing at that moment had to be rescued by a steam locomotive from a museum that's (luckily) located nearby.
...a huge one in yer crawl space huh????......(oh yes I DID!).......
...whenever the water breaks around here, I wait to see what will be born in the system.....
Oh my word, free flowing, and free of pathogens, on demand clean water, I remember that, twas way tres' cool and groovy stuff
Do people drink water right off the ground anymore?
When I used to go hiking in New Hampshire and Maine as a boy, we didn't think twice about filling our bottles right out of the stream without any purification tablets or anything.
I guess people probably don't do that anymore.
Think about how long the water has been recycling on this planet.
It'll be potable again one day . . .
when we're long gone.
; )
After a couple hurricanes, yeah. We've had to rough it. Baby wipes are a nice option for a quickie wipe-down when bathing isn't an option, and paper plates have become a staple in our household. Coin-op for the laundry, and bottled jugs of water for everything else.
I hope they get it back on for you quick!
I use to camp for extended periods of time in the Daniel Boone National Forest back in the day, and never gave it a thought to drink straight out of a stream, that is until some single cell organism took up residence in my digestive track and parked in my colon
Yyyep yep yep, two weeks of the hot trots will cure ya of that manner of thirst quenchin' is what I'm sayin'...I do know of a few clean clear fresh water springs in Indiana and Kentucky I trust though, limestone filtered they are.
Butt now it wasn' t hardly a year ago ya mighta found me washin' up some in a 'clean' puddle, around the raccoon crapped, mange mited, condemned house I was stayin' in, so let's hear it for clean puddles
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I picked up such a single celled organism either in Africa or Pakistan. (lost 10 pounds in 10 days). We called it the Air Transport Group Weight Loss Plan.I use to camp for extended periods of time in the Daniel Boone National Forest back in the day, and never gave it a thought to drink straight out of a stream, that is until some single cell organism took up residence in my digestive track and parked in my colon
Yyyep yep yep, two weeks of the hot trots will cure ya of that manner of thirst quenchin' is what I'm sayin'...I do know of a few clean clear fresh water springs in Indiana and Kentucky I trust though, limestone filtered they are.
Butt now it wasn' t hardly a year ago ya mighta found me washin' up some in a 'clean' puddle, around the raccoon crapped, mange mited, condemned house I was stayin' in, so let's hear it for clean puddles
Of course that was 20 years ago. I would not mind losing 10 pounds now!