Good afternoon all, it's another Hot one,
Hello Francine, just something cold to drink, Ice water sounds just fine.
Per WW: It's Clear & Hot or getting there;
It's 99.5 °F - Feels Like 97 °F due to a bit of a cool breeze;
Wind are from the ESE at 6.3 mph.
Garry, I'm sorry to hear that happened to your friend! I narrowly avoided the same fate in early summer 2011, when we had a torrential downpour followed by a power outage. I watched the water level rising in the sump, then started shuttling 5-gallon buckets full of water up the stairs and out the front door. The sump would re-fill back up to its previous level in the amount of time it took me to haul a bucketful out, so I could barely keep up with it during the two-hour outage. That experience convinced me to invest in a Basement Watchdog battery-powered backup sump pump, with a battery that could provide 12 hours of continuous running after being fully-charged. It was a real lifesaver when Hurricane Irene hit a few months later and knocked out our power.
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I just got back from an op session at the house of an old friend in Hagerstown, one of my steel mill-modeling buddies. My particular job this time was to run the Beaver Falls Local, switching industries in an area with trackwork as complex as a Timesaver - but that's precisely what made it fun, it certainly kept me occupied! I also got to meet one of my online friends from "across the street"; he grew up near Cleveland and knows alot about the area I'm modeling. All in all, a great evening.
It's long past my bedtime, time to go. Those of you in the path of Tomorrow's monsoon - stay dry! (David in Cali, stay cool!)
Say Ken:
Thanks for the, 'Stay Cool', that absolutely necessary for sure and I do my best.
I also go along with you and tell Garry I'm sorry to hear about his friends flooding problem, I sure hope it wasn't too bad?
A battery operated sump pump is something I hadn't heard of before. I did replace my late Aunts' tall pedestal sump pump which was froze up with rust in Massachusetts when I was handling her estate with a submersible one that some. The battery back-up unit sure sounds like a good thing when power outages happen.
Glad you had an interesting time doing the switching, that has always intrigued me too.
Okay, there seems to be a temporary lull in the festivities. I would much rather have a nice, gentle, soaking rain, after several weeks of nothing. That way, the water would be able to soak in to the soil, and do something besides cause floods.
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A slow steady soaking rain is a lot better than a great down pour that runs off.
I like your coffee RX pill bottle mug!
Morning Gents. Low 70s and rain here today. Predicted high of only 83 today. Much better than those high 90s all week.
Except for getting held up in traffic on occasion I haven't been around many trains at all.
Working on a survey crew got me up close and personal a couple of times.
One day in particular caused me all kinds of grief being the instrument operator setup about 10' from an active rail line on rain soaked soil. Liquefaction is definitely not a land surveyor's friend.
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Being around trains and the boggy ground reminded me of the time about 25 yrs ago that thhe SP yard was flooded and at least some of the rails and ties were lifting up out of the mud as my friend/Engineer said he operated the switch engine. As he put it, 'It was rather freaky'!
Hope everyone has a good day.
Time for some icecreme, good thing I went yesterday evening to get another 5 quarts.