Having several pictures from the area I don't think it's overdone at all...and if it were in black and white I wouldn't even look at it...life is not in black and white.
Hey thanks...too many years have passed and I never had close association with either one like I did with the Phantoms.
They had phased out the 102 and 106 at Seymour Johnson when I got there. They were just replacing the 105 with the Phantoms and they were smokey, loud, and built like brick craphouses...took a ton of damage and still brought their guys home. We had the 4th TAC Fighter Wing at Seymour then...the 334th, 335th, and 336th Fighter Squadrons. I worked out at the Dare County Bombing range for one day just for kicks and after lunch those guys came straight out of the sun and fired before they got in front of us...so we're sitting there, bored, and all of a sudden the sound is scaring the bejesus out of you. Man, I loved those days...stupidest thing I ever did was getting out at four years and three months.
Mikey...is that the Delta Dagger or the Delta Dart??
I read a comment from a fireman that said it was the force of nature, not a lack of resources. Many years ago we had a woods fire that consumed a barn, a firetruck, several outbuildings, and a lot of woods. The crew of the firetruck had to run to escape the flames and our crew at the barn hid under their engine while the fire blew overhead. You don't fight fire when the wind is blowing like that...you simply follow along and try to save lives and what little property you can. Prayers for all concerned!
Two months ago I was fully intending to do the Schafer Trail but turned back at Albequerque because my wife had lost her glasses. Maybe next year! I was intending to hit Moab and try out the crawl function on my 2018 Tacoma.
Back when I was running ambulance we carried several women whose hips broke without falling or other injuries. We commonly accepted it but I don't know if any study has ever been done on it.
That's close for sure. I've seen two whiteouts in my lifetime...both in Sondestrom AFB, Greenland, and they can be terrifying as you can only see about three feet in any direction so that you totally lose your orientation. Way back when I was there on a stopover, Thule AFB had yellow nylon cords between some of the buildings. We actually lost some aircraft flying in from Rekjavik, Iceland, because they got into whiteout conditions over Greenland.
Actually Jerry, flying roaches inside are usually a species of wood roaches and aren't generally a problem...at least one type will die inside a house apparently just for the hell of it.
Termites require a professional...the ants don't. Very fine frass packed in holes is powder post beetles, not termites or carpenters. The carpenters have a rough frass usually with small pieces of dead ants mixed in.
Termidor is labeled as a termiticide...DON'T use it before checking to see if the labeling permits it's use for carpenter ants...legal issues and can get you in a heap of trouble. And you don't necessarily need a professional...read my comment below.
Look for piles of "frass" or sawdust on the floor and then look at the wood straight above it. You should see some openings and you can douse these with an aerosal with a plastic wand. Check again in about two weeks. Carpenters start in moisture damaged wood and move from there into the good wood and it's very unusual to find them in a basement that is not open to the outside. IF you decide to go the professional route then ask the companies that you call if they treat carpenter ants as a pest problem or a wood destroying problem...go with the company that treats them as a pest problem as the difference can cost you HUNDREDS of dollars. My creds? Over thirty five years in the industry and I always treated them as a pest problem...they're actually fairly easy to control.
How true. I've watched many services from Arlington and there's always a couple of planes going overhead.
To elaborate a little...Chandler Ice and Coal, from Southern Pines, N.C., would deliver to our house out in the country and shovel the coal through a window into a wooden bin built in the basement. then it was my job to shovel it into the hopper for the furnace. I actually enjoyed doing it as it was the warmest place in the house. The best heat, clean heat that is, came from a water source heat pump that we had installed at our log house. It used well water and the exhausted water was just allowed to run into a small sump in the winter and was used to run a sprinkler in the warm months. That was the most efficient hvac that we ever owned and when it quit we weren't able to find another one...at a reasonable price. Most of the water source hvacs around here run in a closed circuit running through a trench dug to be below the frost level but I'm not sure that they are as efficient as the one we had. That thing turned out HOT air in the winter and COLD air in the summer as the system ran off the temperature of the water from our hundred foot deep well.
Yeah, we had a coal burner that looked like that furnace...it was fed with coal from a stoker that augered the coal from a bin into the bottom of the furnace. My job was to make sure that I shoveled coal into the stoker each day and used a hook device to pull the clinkers out of the furnace and drop them into a large bucket of water. Important, as several houses burned back then started by clinkers not being out...now to modern day...we responded to a porch fire two days ago started by fireplace ashes put in a cardboard box on the wooden porch...the homeowner told us that they were "definitely cold" when he put them out there. Fortunately it was a daytime fire, we had an engine close by checking hydrants, and the homeowner smelled the smoke before major damage occurred. In my thirty one year career I have responded to several house fires started by "cold" fireplace ashes.