12-10-2021, 01:46 PM | #2551 |
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That place is a memory of mine. Many changes since I first came here. a local builder bought it, put in a cul-de-sac, and stuck 4-5 smaller homes in. Lots are big in town. Most places have a barn. They took the barn on this place down a few years prior. They are just now building the last house, which sits right where the old one did. It would have been more tasteful, in my opinion, to have left the old place stand. It was bought for the value of the land, so renovate the place that has been fitting in all along and stick the newer places (where they are) down grade and back where they impact the street view less. I mean, the town is known for its picturesque Main St. He did a good job, but I would have left the old place.
No eyesore. Someone removed the doors, windows, and most of the siding. I would have dismantled the whole thing. That place just needed paint on the exterior. It wasn't bad. The places along Main St, especially up the hill (like this place), were built as summer homes. The town originated as a whistle stop for the B&O climbing Parrs Ridge, people came out of the city to the cooler fresher air. The whole street is lined with turn of the century homes. The ones going down the hill are mostly the same Sears Catalog house. I think this place was one as well, frame house with steep turned gable. The ones up the hill are mostly Victorian. The president of the B&O's daughter built a sanitorium for children out of Baltimore along the ridge. I guess the town might not be here if there had been air conditioning
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12-29-2021, 01:19 AM | #2553 |
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Getting ready for a drive on Christmas Eve.
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12-29-2021, 06:50 AM | #2554 |
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Very cool!
I took this one back in June at the ATCA National show in Macungie, PA
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12-29-2021, 09:37 AM | #2555 |
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Little hummer did not like!
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12-29-2021, 03:30 PM | #2556 |
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This was one of the best purchases we made for Christmas. Pool, air hockey, fooz ball…
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12-30-2021, 05:12 AM | #2557 |
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had a flood last month. at one time there was over 6 ft of water on the highway.
Highways dept made them wait till the water was way down so the shoulder wouldn't collapse. the first day i saw it , it was up the front winda 'bout 6". sat in there for a week. |
12-30-2021, 05:15 AM | #2558 |
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close to 20 mil worth of burned rv's. around 200 of the 400 on the lot went poof
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12-30-2021, 05:27 AM | #2559 |
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kinda weird, all these go up in flames during a flood....
but living in a flood plain, you can't get flood insurance....but pretty much everybody has fire insurance..... |
12-30-2021, 09:52 AM | #2560 |
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WOW!! The flooded truck left to sit a week was enough. Then the not so small fire?? Jeezy Peezy, that's some real carnage right there! It's like a boat sitting out on the water burning till it sinks. Only this would the whole marina. That sky view really sends it home. Shewee!
And a Hummingbird in the snow?? Certainly never seen that! They are long gone from here long before the first frost
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12-30-2021, 03:02 PM | #2562 |
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I took the week off with the plan to work out in my little shop. Snowed day after Christmas, about 6 to 8 inches (quite a bit more other places around here). Next couple days we’re mid teens but no snow. Yesterday it wasn’t bad (still too cold to be in shop) and with the wind and sorta warmer it helped sluff off some snow. Then it went and snowed again last night. Weather app says maybe more? So today will make another day of me not working on any of the projects I was hoping to get done. I have heat out there but it isn’t that effective. Too chilly for my PNW bones to want to work in. Probably balmy in there compared to what you Midwest folks are used to.
Think I’ll start a fire in our little fire pit and sit in one of our overstuffed fluffy chairs
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I guess we do things different down here. Our mortgage company requires us to buy flood insurance if we live in a flood plain.
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hasn't been this bad in a few yrs though. the insurance companies know the deck is stacked against them here, so they won't sell it. plus we prob don't have the population like down there to spread out costs, so it's a real cr*p shoot for the insurance companies... when we had a mortgage, they are well aware ya can't get flood insurance here, but they don't seem to care- there all gung-ho on making sure you got fire insurance though as it is, their gonna be on the hook for a few billions anyways, we had massive land slides everywhere, our town was literally cut off from the world for about 8-10 days, every single road and hiway in was destroyed |
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some more damage
this road was built across a swamp so they laid huuuuge styrofoam blocks down first. when the flood water hit, the road literally floated to the top Last edited by dieseldawg142; 12-30-2021 at 08:02 PM. |
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more damage....
so much water came (approx 20-24" in less than 30 hrs) this dyke couldn't take it and let go |
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the green roof down there is my buddy's place. water came up so fast after the dyke let go they were helicoptering people out. rescue let me take my crewcab (38" tires) down there to get buddy, his wife, 2 kids, 2 dogs and a goat out.
a lot of the farmers lost a lot of livestock, cows, chickens, one chicken farmer alone lost 25000 birds... |
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Major flooding indeed.
I saw recently on the news a bridge on the colq had washed out. Is that one of those shown?
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Water is an unbelievably powerful force.
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Wife took it at Ground zero near the reflection pool Wednesday this past week . Didn’t know squirrels could read
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After seeing Dieseldawg142 pictures, I'm not going to complain about a little snow shoveling! So very sad to see all that destruction. Did get the 70 freed from it's snowy grave yesterday.
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when the water receeded enough to open some roads, this is what we found at one of our job sites. it's a seismic upgrade to a skool roof. we tear off the old roof, then the contractor's crew comes in at night and does the seismic work to the roof, then we come back and watertight them up. as it's the winter, the contractor hired a company to come and hoard the job site (basically shrink wrap the roof). we got very lucky, the hoarding stayed on the side that we had the roof ripped off of, the side that went is not done, but at least we had the roof based in. as it was, there was damage, 'bout 15 G's of water damage and a couple grand of physical damage from the hoarding smacking stuff... check out the water blister that helped bring it down. we cut one blister open and approx 5-600 gallons of water gushed out |
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