JUNE 2011 Chat Thread
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06-04-2011, 11:28 AM
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06-04-2011, 11:10 PM
If I am so lucky as to ride around with Papa Don in his CJ-? with his puppy "Jack" tomorrow maybe I'll be smart enough to bring a camera...
I think I'll make that my MISSION GOAL for sunday.
Show you what the river did at first hand from next to big muddy ITSELF!
I hope I get a FORD Truck in each picture, but I can't swear. So I hope some latitude is allowed under the circumstances
IT HAS BEEN dropping. But oh wow, man... I saw a hole today over an acre in size that was at least twenty feet deep according to kids who were SWIMMING IN IT!
~ you could walk out to chest deep on the old roadway, and then it dropped to 20+
(two weeks ago it was a flat level cotton field)
We drove around today in the 4X4 and saw over 60 acres that had become part of the river in the last 2 months. It's likely not recoverable.
Whole areas were washed out to the river as if out to sea...
*Lots of plants had been seeded - who knows where those washed out seeds and fertilizers will wind up. If you lease a field from someone with land, and the land suddenly no longer exists, whom is in default? Indeed - if large amounts of chemicals are found, who does the EPA fine? GOD?
Now, I dunno if I ever explained what a "BACKWATER" was before.
On the TN side of the river we have bluffs.
A "BLUFF" is where for whatever reason the land jumps up over a hundred feet on one side of a river. It forms a kind of shoulder to the land, that sticks up high above (for example) floodwaters...
Between that and the river (at the foot of the "Bluffs") are the "BACKWATERS" and they can be miles wide, filled with crops and temporary homes, machinery left in the fields (rare), and whatnot...
BACKWATERS are the areas filled with water that were dry before flooding - between the river and the bluff bases.
They are the hi-risk insurance areas
A lot of them are now becoming dry land again...
*He says, brightly
** I know enough about local geology to explain it, but if you stayed awake IN CLASS you should know it too from High School.
I realise that some get fascinated by science, and some just wanna know where the charger plugs in. That's just me...
Are you bored yet?
I AGREE IN PRINCIPLE WITH THIS THOUGHT TOO:
HEAT SUX!!!
~ I was just thinking three months ago that I would appreciate shivering in my britches in the morning right around the second week of August...
I think I'll make that my MISSION GOAL for sunday.
Show you what the river did at first hand from next to big muddy ITSELF!
I hope I get a FORD Truck in each picture, but I can't swear. So I hope some latitude is allowed under the circumstances
IT HAS BEEN dropping. But oh wow, man... I saw a hole today over an acre in size that was at least twenty feet deep according to kids who were SWIMMING IN IT!
~ you could walk out to chest deep on the old roadway, and then it dropped to 20+
(two weeks ago it was a flat level cotton field)
We drove around today in the 4X4 and saw over 60 acres that had become part of the river in the last 2 months. It's likely not recoverable.
Whole areas were washed out to the river as if out to sea...
*Lots of plants had been seeded - who knows where those washed out seeds and fertilizers will wind up. If you lease a field from someone with land, and the land suddenly no longer exists, whom is in default? Indeed - if large amounts of chemicals are found, who does the EPA fine? GOD?
Now, I dunno if I ever explained what a "BACKWATER" was before.
On the TN side of the river we have bluffs.
A "BLUFF" is where for whatever reason the land jumps up over a hundred feet on one side of a river. It forms a kind of shoulder to the land, that sticks up high above (for example) floodwaters...
Between that and the river (at the foot of the "Bluffs") are the "BACKWATERS" and they can be miles wide, filled with crops and temporary homes, machinery left in the fields (rare), and whatnot...
BACKWATERS are the areas filled with water that were dry before flooding - between the river and the bluff bases.
They are the hi-risk insurance areas
A lot of them are now becoming dry land again...
*He says, brightly
** I know enough about local geology to explain it, but if you stayed awake IN CLASS you should know it too from High School.
I realise that some get fascinated by science, and some just wanna know where the charger plugs in. That's just me...
Are you bored yet?
I AGREE IN PRINCIPLE WITH THIS THOUGHT TOO:
HEAT SUX!!!
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06-05-2011, 06:27 AM
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06-05-2011, 09:20 PM
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06-06-2011, 06:00 AM
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Good morning everyone! Sorry I have been MIA for a bit....for some reason the Navy thinks I am in uniform or something.....as they decide to send me TAD somewhere with NO NOTICE! I think I had time to kiss the wife goodbye and pack a few clothes.
Well back in this blasted heat TN and ready for work! HAHA
Have a great day!
Well back in this blasted heat TN and ready for work! HAHA
Have a great day!