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General => IHADAV8 Playground => Topic started by: Pyro6 on August 25 2017, 07:04:57 PM
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Keep in touch all that are affected by the storm. This looks like a bad one.
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Absolutely...s tay safe guys.
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Yep, it looks like a bad one fo sho.
I hope it heads Steve's way, he'll take care of it.
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I'm on hitch this week up in Altus, Oklahoma. Momma and the kids at home in central Texas but have relatives coming up today from the coast. Kind of glad I'm at work
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Yep, it looks like a bad one fo sho.
I hope it heads Steve's way, he'll take care of it.
yep, I will bust a few caps in it...and it will die peaceable
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Yep, it looks like a bad one fo sho.
I hope it heads Steve's way, he'll take care of it.
yep, I will bust a few caps in it...and it will die peaceable
funny, after reading that and watching the news, the hurricane is now pulling a ueee. :rofl:
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I hope those down there are making good choices and doing some evacuating. This is something that shouldn't be thought of as "I've made it through before". Mother nature is not to be taken lightly.
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Steve and Rich get together and build an Ark! A turbo charged V6 one. Stay safe, guys!
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Toronto Sun has several dozen pics of the devastation in Texas...and the storm could linger a couple of days. This is gonna be worse than Katrina.
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Yep, it looks like a bad one fo sho.
I hope it heads Steve's way, he'll take care of it.
yep, I will bust a few caps in it...and it will die peaceable
(http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/fb/fb75997bd18456cc1a80b97e9a7e88d9c734522e73a6aa6ae145c5da20f33093.jpg)
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I thought I heard on the news that it would drop 600 milliliters of rain in the worst spots? That's a lot of water in a couple days! :O
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I think some areas, are projected to receive over a 1000 ml I think my son's area has close to 450 mm in the past 24 hrs...he's okay, so far the drainage is working. he's had about 3 ft standing in the street in front of his house but it goes away 30 minutes after it stops raining....Thi s stuff is projected to go on for another three days unless the weather patterns change.
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ABC13.com is streaming pictures plus the Weather channel, but the ABC is better for pics. Tornado hit a block from my son's yesterday
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Seeing lots of pics from folks I grew up with down on the east side Houston. Rain won't stop. Houses flooding. Tornadoes moving in and out of neighborhoods. Making Carter, Alicia and Ike look like little toys.
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Thought my son was going to escape the flooding, but this afternoon, the bayous overflowed, the drainage stopped and water is rising in his area. Neighborhoods around him have evacuated and the overflow from those areas is coming into his neighborhood. Rained all day instead of being in bands. Think he is around 30 inches now
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If the weather channels' to be believed, there's a front holding the storm in place.
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I think there is a high pressure system on both sides of it holding it stationery. They are forecasting another foot or more of rain in the next two days. At the moment, the water has stopped rising at my son's but he is still in danger...
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Dry air!!! That'll put a damper on it. Coming in from the south thankfully. That dry air is a storm extinguisher.
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Man that's a LOT of rain! Be safe!
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Better keep your tank full of gas. Refineries on the coast of Texas are shut down.
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Better keep your tank full of gas. Refineries on the coast of Texas are shut down.
Being retired I don't do much driving anymore...so the oil companies can take a long hard suck on my ass.
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If you're watching the news, I grew up on Cedar Bayou there in Mont Belvieu/Baytown area. Lots of friends under water. My brother lives in Dayton but he's on the high side and hasn't been in trouble yet. Keep them in your prayers and please shoot looters on site
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I've been keeping track of it via BPEARTHWATCH. It's nothing short of a nitemare down there.
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This was an unbelievable catastrophe. I would estimate it covered more than 2000 sq miles
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They say about 80% of the homes do Not have Flood insurance so that's really going to screw people up! Sad!
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Maybe the Texas guys can chime in and let us know how much flood insurance is. Must be astronomical?
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I just read an article that says only 15% of the people have it. It's so expensive in a flood plain most can't afford it. The coverage seems to be so limited too. Anything under 1st floor level isn't covered except necessary appliance, like a furnace. So i f you have a fixed up basement, not covered. During Katrina it stated that all federal assisstance maxed out at $30,000 per household.
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I am not up to date on it, but it used to be mandatory if you lived inside the 100 year flood plane. I know that I made sure I was not within those areas. It was very expensive and covered very little.
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Sounds like it may be around 700-1K (google) per annum
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good overview:
https://www.vox.com/2017/8/26/16208230/hurricane-harvey-flood-damage (https://www.vox.com/2017/8/26/16208230/hurricane-harvey-flood-damage)
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I just read an article that says only 15% of the people have it. It's so expensive in a flood plain most can't afford it. The coverage seems to be so limited too. Anything under 1st floor level isn't covered except necessary appliance, like a furnace. So i f you have a fixed up basement, not covered. During Katrina it stated that all federal assisstance maxed out at $30,000 per household.
No basements in this part of the country .
Sadly, many if not most have lost a lot.
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It costs more to dig a basement than it does to build a house over it. Not very many storm cellars in this area but I wish I had one!
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Storm shelters are good. I need to build one. Old school style, just a box in the ground, so I can live, live to see another day. Nowadays people think they gotta build a home away from home. :icon_eyes:
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Takes a diamond edged rock saw to dig a hole here. this is lime stone country
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Explosives out of the question?
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Explosives out of the question?
Hand THESE guys explosives? What's wrong with you? Lol!!!!
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:rofl: rofl :rofl:
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They blowed up, they blowed up Real Good!
I miss SCTV & celebrity blow up! :rofl:
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If you're watching the news, I grew up on Cedar Bayou there in Mont Belvieu/Baytown area. Lots of friends under water. My brother lives in Dayton but he's on the high side and hasn't been in trouble yet. Keep them in your prayers and please shoot looters on site
I hope everyone is doing well. Lots of loss there for sure. I hope everyone pulls through! I never had to deal with floods just forest fires.
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Explosives out of the question?
Not necessarily. I'm not up to date on buying powder anymore. I used to be able to pick up the phone and order all I wanted before I retired.
Problem with powder is making a nice square cut instead of just blowing a pit and then having to haul all the debris out...
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Explosives out of the question?
Not necessarily. I'm not up to date on buying powder anymore. I used to be able to pick up the phone and order all I wanted before I retired.
Problem with powder is making a nice square cut instead of just blowing a pit and then having to haul all the debris out...
I've got about 25lbs of FF and FFF. When do you wanna do this?
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Y'all are starting to worry me. :073:
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What could possibly go wrong...
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Play time......
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If you need fire arms or other things like that, Texas is your place. We have a git er done type mentality 'round here.
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Next time in Texas, hopefully I'll see proof!
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FFF as in pistol powder?
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FFF as in pistol powder?
Yes sir. I've built a couple of replica muzzle loaders. My current favorite is a .45 caliber Vincent. FF not quite as fine as FFF and burns a little slower than FFF. 50 yards or less and I load with FF. Anything further and I load FFF in my rifles.
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Beautiful wood on that gun!
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Looks like one painful but-end
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Beautiful wood on that gun!
What type of wood? Looks real purdy!
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Couple of buddies up here are hunters. One of the weeks is strictly muzzle loaders.
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Felons are not to allowed to have firearms or hunt with one, but they can use a muzzle loader down here to hunt with. Not sure where that came from lol
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Wood is tiger stripe maple. Finished with linseed oil applied by my bare finger. You can't imagine how many coats of linseed oil are on the stock. I apply another coat about once a year to keep it looking good. You can get the stocks in several different grades. I don't skimp on the stock. This one is the highest grade that's available. I have a trunk of a mesquite tree that's been sitting in the barn for 3-4 years. Want to make my own stock someday.
Folks are a bit bigger than they used to be. That butt takes a bit to get used to the placement. It doesn't sit where people hold a rifle these days.