Page 1 2
Go | New | Find | Notify | Tools | Reply | |
| At least it’s just a couple of days | Login/Join |
Has Achieved Nirvana |
“Rolling Thunder for hours” We had that too. I’ve never experienced it before. Our previous dogs were terrified of thunder. Sam, fortunately, doesn’t seem to notice it.
| |||
|
| Unrepentant Dork Gadfly  |
Update. We lost power at around eleven PM. I went to check on the sump pump hole and the water was rising fast. I grabbed all the towels we had and surrounded the hole then hand bailed water while Rob starting moving things to higher ground. My dad came and rescued us a little after midnight with a generator so we managed to keep the water to just a small area in the unfinished section of the basement. Power came back on at around 10 (literal seconds after my dad had finished topping up the generator). There is major damage all around our local area and most of my friends have water in their basements. I feel pretty lucky that we dodged the worst of it!
| |||
|
| Serial origamist Has Achieved Nirvana  |
I didn’t watch the repub debate, but I heard that six of the eight denied climate change is real and eight of the eight denied that people have anything to do with climate change. I’m guessing that accurately represents their constituency. One of Ramaswamy’s “ten truths” is that we can only survive by burning fossil fuels.
| |||
|
| (self-titled) semi-posting lurker Minor Deity  |
Dol, yikes, that sounds harrowing! PJ - yep. :/
| |||
|
| knitterati Beatification Candidate  |
We don’t often get thunder, but rolling thunder started here at 12:45 am and went on through the night. Weird! Long, long waves of it. And intermittent downpours. It’s not particularly hot (90-ish) but the midnight thunder is weird.
| |||
|
Has Achieved Nirvana |
How's the bluegrass festival going, Steve?
| |||
|
| Has Achieved Nirvana |
Festival is great! It’s an old-timey deal held on the Brown County Fairgrounds, which has a few buildings that date to the 19th century. The sound system is strictly modern though, and the grandstand is covered so I can get out of the sun. The weather has been brutal (heat index 105!) but a breeze came up that makes sitting in the shade bearable. The trailer A/C has been struggling to keep up - maintains about 80 degrees, maybe not so bad in this weather, but I’m going to look in the optional second A/C unit. The performances have been mixed, most with great musicianship but few with competent singers. Most are dreadful, actually. The exception is the headline group, Rhonda Vincent and the Rage, and they sound even better live than they do on their recordings. 
| |||
|
| Has Achieved Nirvana |
Dol, glad nothing was badly damaged. Our friend one town over had her basement flood and is having throw away everything - including her new washer and dryer.  I have a battery backup secondary pump at my house. Have you looked in to adding one at your place?
| |||
|
| Has Achieved Nirvana |
We've been where dol was with the manual bailing. No fun at all. We also have a battery sump pump as backup. It gets bonus points because it will also take over if your primary pump fails. We noticed that our backup pump was going on when there was no power outage. When we checked, realized that the pressure switch on the main pump was shot. If it weren't for the battery backup we would have had a mess on our hands. We also have a generator, which we plug in for longer outages. Thankfully we don't have to run it very often, but it's there if we need it.
| |||
|
| Unrepentant Dork Gadfly |
Before the last storm rolled through last night we had gotten 9 inches of rain in 24 hours. A friend has a battery backup sump pump and it wasn’t powerful enough to stay ahead of the water for this storm. She has several inches of water in her basement. We are going to buy a generator so we aren’t relying on using my parents’ since they only live 20 minutes away so frequently we will both lose power at the same time!
| |||
|
Minor Deity |
| |||
|
| (self-titled) semi-posting lurker Minor Deity |
Mik,  We had a storm roll in in the middle of the night last night, and indeed, it was a crazy-long sound and light show that went on much longer than a normal storm (and I'm now sleep-deprived, thank you very much). Anyway, that broke the heat wave, thankfully, and it looks like we should have at least a week of more mild temps. Fingers crossed!
| |||
|
| Has Achieved Nirvana |
Conditions have definitely improved here at the festival 15 degrees cooler and so far the vocals have been excellent!
| |||
|
| Powered by Social Strata | Page 1 2 |
 | Please Wait. Your request is being processed... |
|