We had a school shut down in full panic in Florida yesterday for an active shooter.
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It turned out it was State Licensed Iguana Hunter with a Pellet Gun in the wooded area in the back of the school property. He dod not even realize he was on school property.
TOP OF THE PAGE: Lemonade is the drink this morning. Enjoy.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
herrinchoker I once heard about the burials in the cement, but later read an article that this was not true--that the bodies would weaken the structure. I did read that they buried cooling pipes in the cement to prevent it from overheating as it cured. The engineers pumped cold water through the pipes.
I once heard about the burials in the cement, but later read an article that this was not true--that the bodies would weaken the structure. I did read that they buried cooling pipes in the cement to prevent it from overheating as it cured. The engineers pumped cold water through the pipes.
You are correct. I just had the tour. The dump tubs held 9 cubic yards of cement. Men with high rubber boots would stand right next to the pour and rake it out. The maximum depth was 2 feet at a time as Kevin stated.
They did pump chilled water through pipes to keep the heat down as the cement cured. Cement cures more brittle when it's allowed to create its own heat. I was amazed at the size of the refrigeration unit they used. It was the size of a house.
I saw Pileated woodpeckers quite often in Voyageurs National Park growing up. That is one big woodpecker equipped with a powerful beak. I would see some pretty decent-sized wood chips at the bottom of the tree sometimes.
TF
Good morning, everybody.
Kevin .... An iguana hunter ?? ... I heard in the news there was freezing weather in FL recently, and frozen iguanas were falling from the trees.
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For the first time in several days, I had some model railroad time last night. I wokred on couplers of some passenger cars. I have a long to-do-list remaining.
Everybody: .... Have a good day.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
hon30critterI totally understand your position Ulrich. TV is a luxury. If you can afford it that's great. Under your circumstances I wouldn't be spending any money on it either. Good luck with your move to Denmark!
Hear Here! LIONS do not watch TV. Why watch TV when you can watch endless Harry Potter Re-runs on the computkator.
I also watch fire videos, no plot, plenty of action, just wot an old man needs.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
MisterBeasleyFor those traveling with families, nothing beats the cost of driving. Trains and planes are fine for single travelers, but a couple with a pair of children can experience sticker shock even going a couple of hundred miles.
When youy figgr in hotels and meals... it just might be easier to fly. Quidditch Alley has a good deal on 'family' broomsticks.
Track fiddlerAfter we returned to the hotel we went to the prime rib room. Prime-rib wildebeest for all
Pffft.... Over Cooked!
LIONS want RARE.
Good morning.
We did a little exploring the other day. We visited this quaint little town called Searchlight. I found it difficult to travel thier speed limit of 25 miles an hour after doing 75 miles per hour on the highway.
I never been to a McDonald's casino before.
I suppose it was an old mining town. I took this picture at dusk.
Judy been known to take some pretty good pictures out the passenger window traveling down the highway. This one was a doozy.
We thought it was at first until we zoomed in on the picture
Have a good day all.
BroadwayLion When youy figgr in hotels and meals... it just might be easier to fly. Quidditch Alley has a good deal on 'family' broomsticks.
Yes. When you're on a week-long vacation, driving 2 days each way really eats into your quality time away from home.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
As our stay in the "Big Apple" is coming to an end in two days, here is some more NY nostalgia!
BroadwayLionWhy watch TV when you can watch endless Harry Potter Re-runs
Haven´t found those yet, but as Petra is somewhat of a Harry Pothead Potter fan and is not so much into watching steam train videos, it´d be nice to have a link.
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
BroadwayLion Track fiddler After we returned to the hotel we went to the prime rib room. Prime-rib wildebeest for all Pffft.... Over Cooked! LIONS want RARE.
Track fiddler After we returned to the hotel we went to the prime rib room. Prime-rib wildebeest for all
Funny
I was going to put something like that in my post. This piece is to burnt for Lion.
Now I wish I would have.
Heartland Division CB&QKevin .... An iguana hunter ?? ... I heard in the news there was freezing weather in FL recently, and frozen iguanas were falling from the trees.
Yes, that is absolutely true. When the Iguanas freeze they are much easier to deal with.
We have a Python problem... as well as Oscars, Lion Fish, Cuban Tree Frogs, and so on.
Invasive species are a huge problem in Florida.
BroadwayLionQuidditch Alley has a good deal on 'family' broomsticks.
I believe you are referring to Diagon Alley.
GMTRacing TF, The CFO and I saw the bridge while it was under construction. You could still drive across the top of the dam then. It was impressive
TF,
The CFO and I saw the bridge while it was under construction. You could still drive across the top of the dam then. It was impressive
Wow, I wish I could have witnessed that. I would have pulled up a lawn chair and never went home
I'm the opposite of some of you. I'm a TV addict.
After college, I lived alone for several years before marriage.
When I was in the house alone, I turned TV on for company. It didn't matter much what was on.
I still do that. When I am in a room, the TV is on. While I work on the layout, the TV is tuned to Perry Mason or Star Trek reruns.
York1 John
I believe you can still drive across the dam, but it is only to a parking lot on the Arizona side. There is no through-connection to the highway.
They will check you and your car before you cross. They sometimes check the trunk and they check under the car.
mbinsewi Wow Richard, any body killed? . . .
Wow Richard, any body killed? . . .
Not in the crane collapse, but one person died later on during the construction of the bridge.
Richard
This one is for Brent!
I was not aware that in Canada at one time people used to drive on the left side of the street! Look how much the streets are "mucked up"!
York1I believe you can still drive across the dam
We drove across it in April, 2019. Just a security check before you go over.
SeeYou190We drove across it in April, 2019. Just a security check before you go over.
I drove across it in the Summer of 1974. No security check. The Hoover Dam bypass was still in the very early planning stage back then.
Were there street sweepers in 1907 to deal with the horse droppings?
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
BigDaddyWere there street sweepers in 1907 to deal with the horse droppings?
I wonder... especially considering that just 1 year earlier they finally passed the first food protection law making it illegal to use arsenic as a preservative in milk.
If that was OK, was anyone really concerned about horse droppings?
SeeYou190 If that was OK, was anyone really concerned about horse droppings?
If it didn't rain for a couple weeks, it must have been slippery to cross the street. Not to mention the oder of pulverized manure.
In 1907, heroin was a legal pain relief medication. Unbelievable!
I sometimes wonder, how our ancestors managed to stay alive.
On a totally different subject unrelated to trains, NYC, or horse manure:
I just read a column about the original Mickey Mouse Club's serial, "The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure."
I had a paper route after school, and I would race home to catch each episode of this series. I remember the series was on one day a week for 15 minutes. Each week there was a new cliff-hanging ending. Tim Considine and Tommy Kirk.
It's strange what an effect something like this had on me that I still remember the theme song and every episode. I will have to see if there is any DVD of it.
Tinplate ToddlerIn 1907, heroin was a legal pain relief medication. Unbelievable!
Not really, my friend Ulrich. Opium has been around for 5,000 years. Laudanum, 10% opium, was a mainstay of 19th century medicine. Herion was merely the wonder drug of it's time.
It was also very popular in my hometown of Baltimore, killing jazz singer Billie Holiday and addicting a couple high school classmates.
Heroin is on a par with Cocaine as a cause of death. Cocaine was a favorite of Sherlock Holmes, "Captain Spaulding" the subject of a song in a 1930's Marx Brothers movie and a favorite of my grandfather, who was an eye, ear, nose and throat surgeon of the time. It provides vasoconstriction (blood vessels don't bleed) and anesthesia and was in use at least until I retired in 2008. If it's not in use today, it's only because of the fear of theft.
Fentanyl kills more people than either heroin or cocaine, individually in the US.
How then can fentany be legal?
It was a drug designed to be an anesthetic, and when used as such, is a darned safe drug. The "dose" for heart surgery is a fatal dose, but the plan is to breathe for you during and afterwards, so it is not fatal. Meanwhile, your blood pressure doesn't bottom out, your heart rate stays the same, all good things for you and the anesthesiologist.
The main proponent of the drug, in deference to Vinnie I will call him a shill, but I could think of other less forum friendly words, claimed that 'super fentanyls' could be used as military weapons.
The Ruskies must have been listening. Younger members here will not have heard about the Moskow Theater Hostage Tragedy, but they know all about google. 1/4 of the 200 hundred hostages were killed by the "gas" pumped into the theater. It is thought to have been a drug called carfentayl, suitable if you are giving anesthesia to elephants, but not nearly as safe as the expert claimed.
I was on a fentanyl infusion after heart surgery, and while the pain relief was excellent, I detected no buzz. Heroin and cocaine definitely are supposed to have a buzz. My recommendation is to not take unknown substances of unknown origin to inject or swallow puchased on street corners.
York1I just read a column about the original Mickey Mouse Club's serial, "The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure."
I had a lot of the books and I thought I remebered something on TV, but looking at the video, I do not. I thought the Hardy boys were older.
Henry - I think you are right! It´s not the use of a substance, but the abuse of it which turns it into a curse.
Talking of substances, I think I´ll make myself a nice cup of hot chocolate, hoping to get s few hours of sleep. Insomnia is striking again!
Eveing Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a please and Dirk half a dog trreat.
Healthy Front, I am worried. Yesterday I took off and went to the local ER to have my ankel looked at! I was looking nasty and felt warm to the touch. THey did blood work, X-Rays of the ankel and then a Ultarsound of my right leg.
Good news My ankel has no infection and ankel is fine, just brusied.
Bad New's I have 2 Blood Clot's in my right calf! I have had leg cramp's on and off in the right calf on and off but I never thought about blood clots!
Medication I was told to take is Eliquis and it is $700.00 for 30 days? I am on it now with a free 30 day free trial dicount. I know there are discount plans that offer 80% off but that is still $140.00 a month that I cannot afford!
Thursday I am off to the VA Hospital to the Release Clinic? Hum I went to a local civilian ER, did not want to talk to a Duck Doctor. Maybe then I can get some answers about what Eliquis or like med will cost me.
At this point I don't know how worried I should be! I know blood clots is a big deal and can cause stroke's and death. But how likely is it?
Train Front Seems the chuff sensor in the PRR I1sa got a bood clot as well and has stopped working again!
Later, Blood Clot Ken and Dirk say's Woof, Woof.
I hate Rust
Evening folks,
Hope everyone is well!
Y'all know what yesterday was?
It was this morons birthday!
I'm 19 now, no more goofing around.
So various updates,
Date went splendidly but in an unexpected turn of events she told me shes still in love with her ex, the same ex that cheated on her with two other girls at the same time, they've been separated since last spring!? But she just wants to be friends so oh well win some lose some.
Why am I so cavalier about the end of my whirlwind relationship? Well heres the story of the last two days gents.
So Sunday we got a call at the Cook Hotel from a Mrs. Allison Cook (<hint: last name kinda important) well she needs the Cook Suite (one of our "Signature Suites" or Megas) for the Chi Omega sorority initiation dinner, long story short thanks to my going above and beyond I became the Chi O's special guest for dinner and apparently when playing a game of guess whose secret one girl wrote and I quote "I will marry Stephen in 10 years" misspelled my name but what the hell, so I'm following up on her and a few others that expressed interest.
They're all very, VERY affluent, and thankfully I have made friends with Mrs. Cook and her daughter Elizabeth (she's 23), very nice people I must say.
Well I'll go back to my 60 hour work weeks and talking to those uptown girls...
Peace gentlemen!
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
cudakenAt this point I don't know how worried I should be! I know blood clots is a big deal and can cause stroke's and death. But how likely is it?
Get that stuff ASAP or you may not have to worry about anything any longer! I just wonder they didn´t keep you right there in the hospital!
, Steven!
Tinplate Toddlercudaken At this point I don't know how worried I should be! I know blood clots is a big deal and can cause stroke's and death. But how likely is it? Get that stuff ASAP or you may not have to worry about anything any longer! I just wonder they didn´t keep you right there in the hospital!
Hi Ken,
Without wishing to lecture you, I have to agree with Ulrich. You don't want to risk having a stroke. I'm glad that you are following up so quickly with the VA.
I hate to rub it in (that's usually Brent's job) but here in Ontario, if you are 65 or older and without a drug plan, you pay $100.00 per year and everything else is covered by the government. Yes, we taxpayers are funding the government, but the alternative to not funding things like the drug plan is an increase in serious cases of illness. That costs way more than the drugs to prevent them.
I'm sure you have heard the saying that "oil is cheaper than parts".
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!