My wife reminded me that the one mentioned the other day may have been in Prince William County Virginia not far where I used to live. It actually happens more often that you think as there were alot of family burial grounds and then when funeral homes went out of business they had to do something with the bodies.
This is crazy over 2 days and no one thought of ANYTHING to say....?
My son is on his way to Gainesville Florida to do more digging, they are trying to build something and they need to prove they are NOT doing so on top of the Olemc's or whatever else might be in the ground there. Cemeteries in particular can be a HUGE pain in the butt!!
I am somewhat distracted by shoulder/arm pain and the approaching storms. Installing panels requires that I lean on neighbors to help. You cannot wait until the last minute or assume that all 3 of these things will be a miss. Anyway I will remain distracted for the next few days until I get a better idea of the forecast track(s). -robl
Shouldn't you be preparing too, Mikey? Florence is looking pretty fierce.
Snags
Oh yeah the weather channel has it hitting land right over my head but as of right now I'm staying put. My wife and I will bring everything that's movable from the outside to the inside today so it doesn't blow around. My wife went to the grocery store yesterday and the local one is saying they will stay open every minute they can during the storm. I do have a whole house generator and 250 gallons of propane in an underground tank so should be good for awhile. I'm also 30 feet above sea level and even though I have grass right under that is sand that drains sooo well we have to run the sprinklers within a few days after it rains or the grass/weeds will die. I am 1.5 miles from the actual coast in a neighborhood of single family homes Some models show it hitting about 40 miles North of me in Wilmington NC, I'm about 10 miles North of the SC border.
My house is only 1.75 years old and has 130mph windows and doors in it, the shingle guys got nail happy and put 4 or 5 nails in every shingle so hopefully they will stay put too. Sometimes I think they get paid by the nail but then I find their rolls and sticks of nails EVERYWHERE so they must just get them free. They are still building brand new homes in my neighborhood but the closest one is almost 100 yards away and the builder is spending the week picking everything up just in case. The same thing happened 2 years ago when Hurricane Matthew came near me and the builder had zero problems afterwards as a result of their cleanup efforts. In fact they even used my garage as a storage place for some of their stuff as I hadn't settled on it then.
Shouldn't you be preparing too, Mikey? Florence is looking pretty fierce.
Snags
Oh yeah the weather channel has it hitting land right over my head but as of right now I'm staying put. My wife and I will bring everything that's movable from the outside to the inside today so it doesn't blow around. My wife went to the grocery store yesterday and the local one is saying they will stay open every minute they can during the storm. I do have a whole house generator and 250 gallons of propane in an underground tank so should be good for awhile. I'm also 30 feet above sea level and even though I have grass right under that is sand that drains sooo well we have to run the sprinklers within a few days after it rains or the grass/weeds will die. I am 1.5 miles from the actual coast in a neighborhood of single family homes Some models show it hitting about 40 miles North of me in Wilmington NC, I'm about 10 miles North of the SC border.
My house is only 1.75 years old and has 130mph windows and doors in it, the shingle guys got nail happy and put 4 or 5 nails in every shingle so hopefully they will stay put too. Sometimes I think they get paid by the nail but then I find their rolls and sticks of nails EVERYWHERE so they must just get them free. They are still building brand new homes in my neighborhood but the closest one is almost 100 yards away and the builder is spending the week picking everything up just in case. The same thing happened 2 years ago when Hurricane Matthew came near me and the builder had zero problems afterwards as a result of their cleanup efforts. In fact they even used my garage as a storage place for some of their stuff as I hadn't settled on it then.
Glad you have 130 mph windows. This storm is talking about sustained 156 mph winds, gusts to ??
I figure last we will hear from you is on Thursday and it will take a week or more before services get restored.
I think London has quite a long history of disturbing the dead - not always respectfully though and often with not much expectation that they were going to come across any that would be in the way of their plans.
I found an interesting read though. It puts to rest some of the wilder claims about plague pits and the London underground network that have been told to me as gospel by many a local (http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20160906-plague-pits-the-london-underground-and-crossrail) although it was a lot longer read than I was expecting it to be, which I suppose I should interpret as being therefore, even more informative than I expected - but I hadn't really planned to become that informed to be honest... and now that I've acquired the unsettling auditory hallucination that the hum of my computer is a swarm of buzzing stinging things with my name on it, I'm finding myself quite on edge ready to pelt away from it at the slightest dust mote floating about and a long read really just becomes a series of false-start jitters. I know :( How pathetic is that! Still - it was interesting and having become that informed - I stumbled across something no one has ever mentioned to me in all the years I've been acclimatising to the place - the London Necropolis Railway. Apparently it stopped because it got bombed.
*move on to different topic*
I do hope Florence doesn't cause anyone here any trouble. I've been so stupidly busy and preoccupied by stuff, I've not really been paying much attention to any form of news, including storms and natural phenomena being flung about the place at people. I think there've been a lot :/ Anyway - good luck!
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Shouldn't you be preparing too, Mikey? Florence is looking pretty fierce.
Snags
Oh yeah the weather channel has it hitting land right over my head but as of right now I'm staying put. My wife and I will bring everything that's movable from the outside to the inside today so it doesn't blow around. My wife went to the grocery store yesterday and the local one is saying they will stay open every minute they can during the storm. I do have a whole house generator and 250 gallons of propane in an underground tank so should be good for awhile. I'm also 30 feet above sea level and even though I have grass right under that is sand that drains sooo well we have to run the sprinklers within a few days after it rains or the grass/weeds will die. I am 1.5 miles from the actual coast in a neighborhood of single family homes Some models show it hitting about 40 miles North of me in Wilmington NC, I'm about 10 miles North of the SC border.
My house is only 1.75 years old and has 130mph windows and doors in it, the shingle guys got nail happy and put 4 or 5 nails in every shingle so hopefully they will stay put too. Sometimes I think they get paid by the nail but then I find their rolls and sticks of nails EVERYWHERE so they must just get them free. They are still building brand new homes in my neighborhood but the closest one is almost 100 yards away and the builder is spending the week picking everything up just in case. The same thing happened 2 years ago when Hurricane Matthew came near me and the builder had zero problems afterwards as a result of their cleanup efforts. In fact they even used my garage as a storage place for some of their stuff as I hadn't settled on it then.
Glad you have 130 mph windows. This storm is talking about sustained 156 mph winds, gusts to ??
I figure last we will hear from you is on Thursday and it will take a week or more before services get restored.
They are now saying it will be a category 2 when it hits land so no trouble with the winds if that's true. As for power I do have a whole house generator but even during Matthew 2 years ago my neighborhood only lost power because a main power line came down about 10 miles away, taking out power to a dozen or more neighborhoods. That took 20 hours to fix, the wires got to swaying in the wind and became disconnected and they had to wait out the storm to fix it.
Anniet I wonder if that's the same John Clarke who was on my crunching Team who has now passed away? I think that was a great idea for the train to get the dead and their families to the cemetery and back again in one day, and they even had enough time for a bite and pint before they came back home again.
Anniet I wonder if that's the same John Clarke who was on my crunching Team who has now passed away? I think that was a great idea for the train to get the dead and their families to the cemetery and back again in one day, and they even had enough time for a bite and pint before they came back home again.
Mikey, it doesn't look like it. Following Anniet's link, then the link to John Clarke's book, there is a further link to contact him. It's rather difficult to contact someone who's 6-feet under.
Anniet I wonder if that's the same John Clarke who was on my crunching Team who has now passed away? I think that was a great idea for the train to get the dead and their families to the cemetery and back again in one day, and they even had enough time for a bite and pint before they came back home again.
Mikey, it doesn't look like it. Following Anniet's link, then the link to John Clarke's book, there is a further link to contact him. It's rather difficult to contact someone who's 6-feet under.
I saw that too, but thought maybe it just hasn't been updated because my John Clarke passed away. I asked on my FB Team page and one person commented but didn't know. That link you mentioned even has a picture of him but most of my Team probably never saw my John Clarke.
Gary Charpentier
My wife reminded me that the one mentioned the other day may have been in Prince William County Virginia not far where I used to live. It actually happens more often that you think as there were alot of family burial grounds and then when funeral homes went out of business they had to do something with the bodies.
mikey wrote:This is crazy
I am somewhat distracted by shoulder/arm pain and the approaching storms. Installing panels requires that I lean on neighbors to help. You cannot wait until the last minute or assume that all 3 of these things will be a miss. Anyway I will remain distracted for the next few days until I get a better idea of the forecast track(s). -robl
Shouldn't you be preparing
Shouldn't you be preparing too, Mikey? Florence is looking pretty fierce.
Snags
Snagletooth wrote:Shouldn't
Oh yeah the weather channel has it hitting land right over my head but as of right now I'm staying put. My wife and I will bring everything that's movable from the outside to the inside today so it doesn't blow around. My wife went to the grocery store yesterday and the local one is saying they will stay open every minute they can during the storm. I do have a whole house generator and 250 gallons of propane in an underground tank so should be good for awhile. I'm also 30 feet above sea level and even though I have grass right under that is sand that drains sooo well we have to run the sprinklers within a few days after it rains or the grass/weeds will die. I am 1.5 miles from the actual coast in a neighborhood of single family homes Some models show it hitting about 40 miles North of me in Wilmington NC, I'm about 10 miles North of the SC border.
My house is only 1.75 years old and has 130mph windows and doors in it, the shingle guys got nail happy and put 4 or 5 nails in every shingle so hopefully they will stay put too. Sometimes I think they get paid by the nail but then I find their rolls and sticks of nails EVERYWHERE so they must just get them free. They are still building brand new homes in my neighborhood but the closest one is almost 100 yards away and the builder is spending the week picking everything up just in case. The same thing happened 2 years ago when Hurricane Matthew came near me and the builder had zero problems afterwards as a result of their cleanup efforts. In fact they even used my garage as a storage place for some of their stuff as I hadn't settled on it then.
mikey wrote:Snagletooth
Glad you have 130 mph windows. This storm is talking about sustained 156 mph winds, gusts to ??
I figure last we will hear from you is on Thursday and it will take a week or more before services get restored.
I think London has quite a
I think London has quite a long history of disturbing the dead - not always respectfully though and often with not much expectation that they were going to come across any that would be in the way of their plans.
I found an interesting read though. It puts to rest some of the wilder claims about plague pits and the London underground network that have been told to me as gospel by many a local (http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20160906-plague-pits-the-london-underground-and-crossrail) although it was a lot longer read than I was expecting it to be, which I suppose I should interpret as being therefore, even more informative than I expected - but I hadn't really planned to become that informed to be honest... and now that I've acquired the unsettling auditory hallucination that the hum of my computer is a swarm of buzzing stinging things with my name on it, I'm finding myself quite on edge ready to pelt away from it at the slightest dust mote floating about and a long read really just becomes a series of false-start jitters. I know :( How pathetic is that! Still - it was interesting and having become that informed - I stumbled across something no one has ever mentioned to me in all the years I've been acclimatising to the place - the London Necropolis Railway. Apparently it stopped because it got bombed.
*move on to different topic*
I do hope Florence doesn't cause anyone here any trouble. I've been so stupidly busy and preoccupied by stuff, I've not really been paying much attention to any form of news, including storms and natural phenomena being flung about the place at people. I think there've been a lot :/ Anyway - good luck!
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Gary Charpentier wrote:mikey
They are now saying it will be a category 2 when it hits land so no trouble with the winds if that's true. As for power I do have a whole house generator but even during Matthew 2 years ago my neighborhood only lost power because a main power line came down about 10 miles away, taking out power to a dozen or more neighborhoods. That took 20 hours to fix, the wires got to swaying in the wind and became disconnected and they had to wait out the storm to fix it.
Anniet I wonder if that's the same John Clarke who was on my crunching Team who has now passed away? I think that was a great idea for the train to get the dead and their families to the cemetery and back again in one day, and they even had enough time for a bite and pint before they came back home again.
mikey wrote: Anniet I wonder
Mikey, it doesn't look like it. Following Anniet's link, then the link to John Clarke's book, there is a further link to contact him. It's rather difficult to contact someone who's 6-feet under.
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RandyC wrote:mikey
I saw that too, but thought maybe it just hasn't been updated because my John Clarke passed away. I asked on my FB Team page and one person commented but didn't know. That link you mentioned even has a picture of him but most of my Team probably never saw my John Clarke.
It will be a grim weekend for
It will be a grim weekend for some by accounts. Good luck and stay safe, one and all.