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    Growing Spanish Moss Tips & Hints

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    9 minutes ago, Cholla said:

    It hangs in the sun on Live Oaks put the amount of sun and shade will change during the day. The big issue is plenty of humidity. Low humidity, it will die. Check the humidity in Northern Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. It grows best in coastal areas with lots of humidity. I lived in Mississippi and Florida longer than I carried to but the Spanish Moss was cool to look at but it also harbors bugs.

     

    It can and will overwhelm Live Oaks and may cause the tree to slowly die. It grows fairly fast. I think that you'll end up regretting introducing it to your area. Like Cholla stated, it harbors chiggers/red bugs (nasty little burrowing mites). 

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    Play in progressive tool head?

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    Seems to me that if a toolhead/dieplate must be loose and/or have "play", or secured contrary to manufacture instructions, to accommodate an improperly indexing counterpart...the machine is way out of adjustment or alignment. Metal on metal "play" is never good, particularly aluminum (or alloy) on aluminum (or alloy) "play".

     

    Sorry, can't subscribe to the "loose/play" theory

     

     

     

     

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    Los Angeles wildfires

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    46 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said:

    So wildfires haven't been a problem in California for living memory?  Robert Stack's mother built a fireproof house with a sprinkler system on the roof - everyone laughed at the idea and were angry when hers was the only house in the area that didn't burn.  When you live in a wildfire ecology basic precautions are always in place!  Meteors, otoh,...

     

    Fires in and/or around LA, and other CA locations, have been occurring for years. Hell, Jim Morrison sang about them in LA Woman fifty-four years ago.

     

    There are preventative measures that can be taken for known hazards with a high probability rate of occurring. Meteors aren't high on the probability list.

     

    The Texas ice storm fiasco had it's beginnings in 1935 with the TX power companies forming an alliance so that they could remain independent from other, out of state, power utilities. What that meant was that they wouldn't have to share their power with other out of state utilities else if the need arose. Conversely, because of that, they couldn't get power from other out of state utilities if their systems failed. Although the ice storm was a major fiasco, the temperature rose, the ice/snow melted and life continued. They still had homes and their possessions. Many folks in the LA don't have ANYTHING now except for what they were able to wear on their back and/or pack quickly.

    There's a BIG difference between the LA fires of today and the TX ice storm or a few years ago. 

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    Los Angeles wildfires

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    13 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:

    It's also happening with our water ways. And now they blame climate change on all the flooding rather than cleaning the debris out of the rivers and from under the bridges. We've got one bridge in town that causes floods every heavy rain and the state won't let us get all the trees out from under the bridge unless it can be done without entering the river. Apparently it upsets some sort of water bug! :blink:

     

    Everyone wants their "scenic" view and protest bitterly when proper, responsible abatement is implemented....until their homes, businesses and neighborhoods burn to the ground or are washed away by floods.

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    Los Angeles wildfires

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    28 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

    You’d think that they would have planned a little better and had some foresight . This wasn’t the first fire they’ve had. Granted this was a bad one with the winds and all but I still think better planning could have minimized the damage. Just MHO 

     

    It was bad with the Santa Ana winds but this happens year after year after year. Sometimes it's in different parts of the state, sometime in the same place as now.

    The origins of the fires may differ, but the results are always the same. People get burned out of their homes and businesses...yet they keep re-electing the same people that are supposedly in charge of ensuring that it doesn't happen again...and again....and again.

     

    Better planning goes much further than making sure the fire hydrants have water to work. Cleaning out underbrush, establishing/maintaining firebreaks, keeping reservoirs filled and a myriad of other preventative measures have to be part of the planning and above all, implemented.

     

     

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    "A strong sprinkling of the low white trash clay eaters"

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    I never called you, or any other Northerner presently alive, a yellow bellied Yankee.  If you took it that way, I apologize. My comment was meant for a Mr. Thomas North who is obviously geographically challenged as Texas is not an "Atlantic Southern State" nor are all Southerners "low white trash clay eaters".

     

    I, like you, am proud of my heritage. I'm also aware that others are equally proud their heritage and try not to denigrate their heritage. 

     

    Southern born and Southern proud.

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    Los Angeles wildfires

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    I've read accounts that they don't have the water to fight the fires due to low pressure from reservoirs being prevented from being refilled by natural means. I've also read about the LAFD budget being cut by the 17 million that Pat referred to. Fire budget $863,000,000, homeless budget $1,300,000,000. I guess it's a good thing they allotted the 1.3 billion to the homeless...they're going to need it.

     

    I'm curious as to whether the no water for fighting the fires is true. I have no doubt the rest is true.

     

    That said, I feel for the people, rich and famous or poor and unknown, that have lost everything they own along with their most treasured possessions. 

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    "A strong sprinkling of the low white trash clay eaters"

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    48 minutes ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

    FIFY.

     

    That's a Yellow Bellied Yankee blue belly.

     

    57 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

    Fortunately, we from the south don’t give one whit about what others think of us.

     

    As a matter of fact, southerners are well known for our gentility and decorum.


    Those who choose to look down their noses at us have mostly been snobbish, graceless, uncouth, and arrogant.

     

    Their opinions are of no consequence!!

     

    🤣

     

     

     

    I disagree somewhat. 

     

    Someone says that kind of drivel to my face...there will be consequences.

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    "A strong sprinkling of the low white trash clay eaters"

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    46 minutes ago, Alpo said:

    I remember a cop show. Adam-12, Dragnet maybe. Maybe even Quincy. This family from the deep South was living in California, and the woman was pregnant and was eating clay.

     

    She explained that, "everybody back home eats clay when they're pregnant. It makes having the baby easier."

     

    Oooo-kay.

     

    Obviously there had to be a supplier for the clay out in California, and the cops got involved in the show because some other woman that was eating clay died because of it. The TV show made the whole idea of eating clay to make having a baby easier just totally stupid ignorant superstition. Like the guy said in Joe's original post - low class white trash.

     

    I only read the last link Joe posted. But in that link it says that "everybody in the South knows about it". I've spent my entire life in the south. The only time I ever heard of it was that one television show.

     

    I've NEVER heard of it. My entire family and extended family have resided in Florida since the 1850's. They came from the Carolinas, Alabama and Georgia. I've never heard of such a thing until today. I've heard of kids eating dirt, but all little kids eat dirt at some time or another regardless of where they live. I'd say 99.99% of kids quickly figure out that dirt doesn't taste good, so they stop eating dirt.

     

    The author of the below blanket statement has no clue as to what he is talking about. 

    Do you think this practice is an eating anomaly? Everyone that was raised in the American South knows about white dirt. There are a few other odd distinctly Southern delicacies that fit with white dirt, like yellow root tea.

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    A Head Scratcher——Update

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    11 hours ago, The Original Lumpy Gritz said:

    Yul, does this genny produce sine wave current? 

     

    I was wondering the same thing.

     

    Almost all portable generators produce very abnormal sine wave patterns. A few of the larger, standby generators have power conditioners that correct this problem somewhat. 

     

     

    For those with stove problems - If the stove utilizes electronic controls (touch to control, not dial type), I firmly suggest repair or replacement of the appliance. The risk of the appliance turning itself on when no one is home could be a real issue, especially after power failures or voltage fluctuations. This happened to a friend of mine. Fortunately for him, there was nothing sitting on the stove at the time and he noticed it right away when he got home.

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    Los Angeles wildfires

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    1 hour ago, John Kloehr said:

    Gatlinburg fire. The video below is NSFW for language and situation. At about 12:30, the guy blocking the road probably did not make it out. Moderator lenience requested. This video made an impression on me.

     

    So later when the Wears Valley fire happened, I was about 10 minutes up the road from my lady at home. I went in ahead of the emergency response, the fire was up to the right and our place to the left. Fire trucks were less than a minute behind me.

     

    I got to our place, she had her tow rig almost to the RV, I completed hooking it up (had a key for it on my ring) as she brought out the cat. Anything else to get? I said "no." Computer? "No." Which car are you driving? "My truck, spare tow vehicle."

     

    We left everything including a vintage Camaro and an expensive Challenger. Ammo, Guns, Jewelry. Paperwork. Memories. We got down the mountain through heavy smoke. We checked with binoculars over the next few days from the church in the valley (I already knew we could see it from the mountain). Our place survived with just some smoke and soot. Anyway, here is why you do not ever want to wait to evacuate:

     

     

     

     

    It's amazing that they were able to escape with their lives.

    Thanks for the video, it was horribly enlightening. 

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