Yeah, that's on my agenda for today, mostly. I'm doing bathtub laundry now since thankfully the one thing Greenville has is water. I know Easley is starting to face a water shortage since I think most of their water comes from towers. So, it could always be worse.
Downtown is more or less fully restored (of course) so we can still get reasonable access to hot meals if we need them. We all went out and got fairly drunk at an Oktoberfest event at one of the breweries last night because what else were we supposed to do?
The Duke energy tracker has the total number without power down from the 1.2 million from Friday and Saturday to about 800K+ so the needle is moving but there has been a striking lack of real communication. The city of greenville even put out a social media broadcast that was basically putting Duke on blast.
The current conspiracy is a lot of the support and personnel was staged for Florida and Georgia and got caught with their pants down when it basically skipped over them and hit SC and NC. And man, the news coming out of Western NC right now is dire. I'm not quite sure you can call it Katrina levels but it's getting close. Table Rock is gone. Like, the whole town, all the roads, everything. It is completely destroyed. Ashville has nothing right now from what I can tell. Like, a lot of those mountain towns and communities are completely isolated because the rivers flooded and washed away all the roads. So rescue crews can't get to anybody.
Meanwhile. Fucking Clemson decided to have their stupid football game which pulled people in and strained already heavily taxed gas stations and grocery stores and likely pulled more police/fire units that could be out doing other more important shit.
Yeah Boone is totally flooded as well. It's bad up there. The official statement put out was that if you're traveling in WNC, "assume the roads are closed"
Yeah, that's on my agenda for today, mostly. I'm doing bathtub laundry now since thankfully the one thing Greenville has is water. I know Easley is starting to face a water shortage since I think most of their water comes from towers. So, it could always be worse.
Downtown is more or less fully restored (of course) so we can still get reasonable access to hot meals if we need them. We all went out and got fairly drunk at an Oktoberfest event at one of the breweries last night because what else were we supposed to do?
The Duke energy tracker has the total number without power down from the 1.2 million from Friday and Saturday to about 800K+ so the needle is moving but there has been a striking lack of real communication. The city of greenville even put out a social media broadcast that was basically putting Duke on blast.
The current conspiracy is a lot of the support and personnel was staged for Florida and Georgia and got caught with their pants down when it basically skipped over them and hit SC and NC. And man, the news coming out of Western NC right now is dire. I'm not quite sure you can call it Katrina levels but it's getting close. Table Rock is gone. Like, the whole town, all the roads, everything. It is completely destroyed. Ashville has nothing right now from what I can tell. Like, a lot of those mountain towns and communities are completely isolated because the rivers flooded and washed away all the roads. So rescue crews can't get to anybody.
Meanwhile. Fucking Clemson decided to have their stupid football game which pulled people in and strained already heavily taxed gas stations and grocery stores and likely pulled more police/fire units that could be out doing other more important shit.
Yeah Boone is totally flooded as well. It's bad up there. The official statement put out was that if you're traveling in WNC, "assume the roads are closed"
I didn't know about table rock but my wife showed me the videos of chimney rock and that entire city is gone as well. Like maybe 2 homes standing in the entire town. Looks like instead of wind damage is was massive landslides from the rain. That's good that people are getting power but i assume those of us on more rural areas are probably last in line. Which makes sense but still sucks ass.
Yeah, that's on my agenda for today, mostly. I'm doing bathtub laundry now since thankfully the one thing Greenville has is water. I know Easley is starting to face a water shortage since I think most of their water comes from towers. So, it could always be worse.
Downtown is more or less fully restored (of course) so we can still get reasonable access to hot meals if we need them. We all went out and got fairly drunk at an Oktoberfest event at one of the breweries last night because what else were we supposed to do?
The Duke energy tracker has the total number without power down from the 1.2 million from Friday and Saturday to about 800K+ so the needle is moving but there has been a striking lack of real communication. The city of greenville even put out a social media broadcast that was basically putting Duke on blast.
The current conspiracy is a lot of the support and personnel was staged for Florida and Georgia and got caught with their pants down when it basically skipped over them and hit SC and NC. And man, the news coming out of Western NC right now is dire. I'm not quite sure you can call it Katrina levels but it's getting close. Table Rock is gone. Like, the whole town, all the roads, everything. It is completely destroyed. Ashville has nothing right now from what I can tell. Like, a lot of those mountain towns and communities are completely isolated because the rivers flooded and washed away all the roads. So rescue crews can't get to anybody.
Meanwhile. Fucking Clemson decided to have their stupid football game which pulled people in and strained already heavily taxed gas stations and grocery stores and likely pulled more police/fire units that could be out doing other more important shit.
Yeah Boone is totally flooded as well. It's bad up there. The official statement put out was that if you're traveling in WNC, "assume the roads are closed"
I didn't know about table rock but my wife showed me the videos of chimney rock and that entire city is gone as well. Like maybe 2 homes standing in the entire town. Looks like instead of wind damage is was massive landslides from the rain. That's good that people are getting power but i assume those of us on more rural areas are probably last in line. Which makes sense but still sucks ass.
Yeah the mudslides are crazy. My wife showed me a video of one in Boone. Just suddenly the ground starts moving and every car in the parking lot is sliding downhill. Can't imagine a big one.
Going to a housewarming party tonight. I'm sure it'll be delightful once I'm there, but I'm currently deep in the pre-social Slough of Despond where I'd pay good money for the host to text me and say it was cancelled so I could stay home and eat the jalapeno popper dip I'm making in the dark by myself.
To be fair, I like parties and people, and this still sounds pretty great to me.
I'm back from a narrowboating holiday and have a fresh batch of very specific petty complaints
Close the damn lock paddles once you're out! We wasted precious time trying to set improperly closed locks!
Speaking of: ground paddles need a better indicator as to whether they're shut or not, like the gate paddles
I can assure you there's nothing in the canal that you're going to catch, either with bait or a magnet, that's worth getting your line entangled in sixteen tons of boat: shift your arse out of the way, especially when it's obviously a mooring point or a lock we're actively going through
Oh, what a lovely dog: I love swerving out of the way because you're throwing it stuff to catch directly in my path. This thing handles like a wardrobe, and I don't want to see what happens when I bonk a Labrador in the head with it, so have some fucking spatial awareness
Moss Swing Bridge No 218 was clearly designed either by a cretin or somebody that wanted to stoke the feud between car and boat
Going to a housewarming party tonight. I'm sure it'll be delightful once I'm there, but I'm currently deep in the pre-social Slough of Despond where I'd pay good money for the host to text me and say it was cancelled so I could stay home and eat the jalapeno popper dip I'm making in the dark by myself.
To be fair, I like parties and people, and this still sounds pretty great to me.
To consume the shadow spice, heat without light, the quiet crunch matched by the ticking of a single clock.
I'm back from a narrowboating holiday and have a fresh batch of very specific petty complaints
Close the damn lock paddles once you're out! We wasted precious time trying to set improperly closed locks!
Speaking of: ground paddles need a better indicator as to whether they're shut or not, like the gate paddles
I can assure you there's nothing in the canal that you're going to catch, either with bait or a magnet, that's worth getting your line entangled in sixteen tons of boat: shift your arse out of the way, especially when it's obviously a mooring point or a lock we're actively going through
Oh, what a lovely dog: I love swerving out of the way because you're throwing it stuff to catch directly in my path. This thing handles like a wardrobe, and I don't want to see what happens when I bonk a Labrador in the head with it, so have some fucking spatial awareness
Moss Swing Bridge No 218 was clearly designed either by a cretin or somebody that wanted to stoke the feud between car and boat
I recognize all of these words, but not in this order/combination. What is narrowboating? What are ground paddles?
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Those horizontal things that look like window blinds are the paddles that open to let water into the lock to raise the level to the next reach of canal, but if they'd opened at this point then I'd have got gallons of water coming onto me
Ground paddles open a channel to let water into the lock from underneath, rather than opening the paddles on the gate straight away
The windlass mechanism for ground paddles (at least, in the locks we were traversing) doesn't have an obvious indication as to whether water is entering the lock or not, and as we were first-timers sometimes we thought that the lock was filling slowly because that was the normal pace, when actually the ground paddles weren't open all the way (but the mechanism was so stiff that it seemed like they'd opened the full amount)
Do people/families own/rent these boats and then just sail them down canals for their vacations? Seems cool.
I knew someone on Facebook who lived on one as their permanent home, and so I assume other do as well.
edit: they also had a second, smaller boat they used as a greenhouse garden, it was pretty cool. They were the admin of some leftwing page, I forget which, but I think they stopped posting due to stress or the like. I wonder how they are
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Yeah I'm not sure what the ratio is vs boats for holiday rentals, but a fair number of people do live on them. I had a friend in college who lived on one which nearly sank because his german shepherd chewed through the hull.
We rented one from a company that owns a fleet, but we met with a couple that had bought one to basically retire in and see that portion of the world that can be reached by waterway, and lots of people live on them permanently (we passed through a long-term mooring section that felt a bit like the boat version of a rural village, with chickens and everything)
Despite my complaints above, it's a cool experience and I'll probably do it again
Yeah I'm not sure what the ratio is vs boats for holiday rentals, but a fair number of people do live on them. I had a friend in college who lived on one which nearly sank because his german shepherd chewed through the hull.
That probably sucked for the person experiencing but it is very funny from the outside.
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I have occasionally considered whether living on a houseboat would be a viable option. Probably much cheaper than owning a house, but still not cheap.
Thanks for the info. That's pretty neat. That makes me wonder if the countries with longer sailing histories have sea sickness at the same rate as others. Because i get sick in seconds lol.
I have occasionally considered whether living on a houseboat would be a viable option. Probably much cheaper than owning a house, but still not cheap.
No idea about how it is local, but the dock rights are whats brutal. For instance Amsterdam has a moratorium on new spots except if they develop a new area. The value of the spot on the market is around 200k atm. On top of that you have to pay a fee based on the size of your houseboat of around 1k/year.
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
We rented one from a company that owns a fleet, but we met with a couple that had bought one to basically retire in and see that portion of the world that can be reached by waterway, and lots of people live on them permanently (we passed through a long-term mooring section that felt a bit like the boat version of a rural village, with chickens and everything)
Despite my complaints above, it's a cool experience and I'll probably do it again
You've got me wanting to try it now.
How manageable would it be for one person? I imagine going through locks and things might be a pain.
We rented one from a company that owns a fleet, but we met with a couple that had bought one to basically retire in and see that portion of the world that can be reached by waterway, and lots of people live on them permanently (we passed through a long-term mooring section that felt a bit like the boat version of a rural village, with chickens and everything)
Despite my complaints above, it's a cool experience and I'll probably do it again
You've got me wanting to try it now.
How manageable would it be for one person? I imagine going through locks and things might be a pain.
The guy who trained us could do locks on his own, but he's been doing it for years
I would highly recommend finding a willing friend who is either confident with steering (they are bouncy as fuck so can take a bit of pinballing) or who is happy to do a lot of cranking
The boat we were on had two beds, so the main friendship level requirement is the ability to not yell at each other when things fuck up
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Bummer. My only friend who would be available to do anything like that is furry and four legged and highly irresponsible.
There might be places where you can get a decent weekend of travel without locks, though - the basic navigation is fine solo, to the extent that my crew had a lie in while I set off until we got to a swing bridge
Maybe East Anglia? Flat as fuck down there, compared to the 50 feet difference in elevation we traversed over a day and a half
The Canal and River Trust have volunteers that help on some of them, some are electronically operated (like the one I live opposite), some have permanent staff (I think the Thames has some of those still) and some are left up to the boaters
We had to operate them all primarily ourselves with volunteers providing some muscle (the Leeds Liverpool canal, for reference)
Living in NE Georgia we got really lucky that the storm largely missed us. So instead we got a chemical plant fire that shut down the interstate, caused large evaluations, and made the air smell and taste like chlorine.
There are a lot of narrowvlboat YouTube channels and I've been watching them for a few years now. Looks fun as hell, interesting and beautiful and challenging.
You can definitely live on a narrowvlboat solo, try watching the channel Cruising the Cut. He's since moved back to land but spent several years documenting what it's like to live on a narrowvlboat by yourself.
It is pretty expensive, but especially considering UK home prices, a bit of a cheaper option, especially if you continually cruise.
It's neat, it's interesting, I would like to try it, but alas, money and distance...
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David_TA fashion yes-man is no good to me.Copenhagen, DenmarkRegistered Userregular
Couple of days ago I was out walking and my jaw make a cracking sound, there was some immediate pain and some aches afterwards around the left ear, but I figured it only sounded loud because it happened in my head.
Today it happened again on my right side, but I was talking with someone at the time who stopped, looked at me and went "That was your head?!?", so safe to say it's not just loud inside my skull.
Would very much appreciate it not happening again.
My experience (my friend thought we hit something since it happened as we were pulling out of a parking spot) was that it was directly related to sinus congestion. Something about pressure on the cheekbone getting in the way of the mobility of the jaw.
Anywho, it eventually went away but occasionally resurfaces.
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Remember how my shower is broken? I had scheduled a plumber to come out tomorrow morning and I was going to have to stay home half day. Get home to find a note from the water company on the door saying they are turning the water off again tomorrow to permanently fix the main. The time? Exactly when the plumber was to be here.
I managed to get a hold of the plumber and reschedule since it would be useless to be here. Two extra days of no showers.
The entire state of South Carolina needs to have their licenses revoked.
I'd say about 60% know to treat a dead traffic light like a 4 way stop. That's extremely not 100% like it should be so collective punishment needs to be considered.
The entire state of South Carolina needs to have their licenses revoked.
I'd say about 60% know to treat a dead traffic light like a 4 way stop. That's extremely not 100% like it should be so collective punishment needs to be considered.
It is required as part of the licensing test so presumably at some point these assholes knew how to act.
Remember how my shower is broken? I had scheduled a plumber to come out tomorrow morning and I was going to have to stay home half day. Get home to find a note from the water company on the door saying they are turning the water off again tomorrow to permanently fix the main. The time? Exactly when the plumber was to be here.
I managed to get a hold of the plumber and reschedule since it would be useless to be here. Two extra days of no showers.
A theoretical question, not a suggestion, but would you be able to use the shower at the gym at the school?
Couple of days ago I was out walking and my jaw make a cracking sound, there was some immediate pain and some aches afterwards around the left ear, but I figured it only sounded loud because it happened in my head.
Today it happened again on my right side, but I was talking with someone at the time who stopped, looked at me and went "That was your head?!?", so safe to say it's not just loud inside my skull.
Would very much appreciate it not happening again.
Jawbone not sitting properly? Mine is kinda fucked up by a shitty orthodontist when I was a teen. Jaw joint pops when I open my mouth wide. The joint is directly next to the ear.
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Yeah Boone is totally flooded as well. It's bad up there. The official statement put out was that if you're traveling in WNC, "assume the roads are closed"
I didn't know about table rock but my wife showed me the videos of chimney rock and that entire city is gone as well. Like maybe 2 homes standing in the entire town. Looks like instead of wind damage is was massive landslides from the rain. That's good that people are getting power but i assume those of us on more rural areas are probably last in line. Which makes sense but still sucks ass.
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Edit: I am reviving the preparedness thread after things start to normalize around here. I do not intend to get caught out on my ass again.
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Yeah the mudslides are crazy. My wife showed me a video of one in Boone. Just suddenly the ground starts moving and every car in the parking lot is sliding downhill. Can't imagine a big one.
To be fair, I like parties and people, and this still sounds pretty great to me.
Close the damn lock paddles once you're out! We wasted precious time trying to set improperly closed locks!
Speaking of: ground paddles need a better indicator as to whether they're shut or not, like the gate paddles
I can assure you there's nothing in the canal that you're going to catch, either with bait or a magnet, that's worth getting your line entangled in sixteen tons of boat: shift your arse out of the way, especially when it's obviously a mooring point or a lock we're actively going through
Oh, what a lovely dog: I love swerving out of the way because you're throwing it stuff to catch directly in my path. This thing handles like a wardrobe, and I don't want to see what happens when I bonk a Labrador in the head with it, so have some fucking spatial awareness
Moss Swing Bridge No 218 was clearly designed either by a cretin or somebody that wanted to stoke the feud between car and boat
To consume the shadow spice, heat without light, the quiet crunch matched by the ticking of a single clock.
I recognize all of these words, but not in this order/combination. What is narrowboating? What are ground paddles?
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I should not have eaten sweet potatoes, I'm pretty sure they're on my do not eat list thanks to fodmad ibs stuff
I had no idea they were called that. I don't think there are any canals like that in the US so i have never seen one in person. Thanks!
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Those horizontal things that look like window blinds are the paddles that open to let water into the lock to raise the level to the next reach of canal, but if they'd opened at this point then I'd have got gallons of water coming onto me
Ground paddles open a channel to let water into the lock from underneath, rather than opening the paddles on the gate straight away
The windlass mechanism for ground paddles (at least, in the locks we were traversing) doesn't have an obvious indication as to whether water is entering the lock or not, and as we were first-timers sometimes we thought that the lock was filling slowly because that was the normal pace, when actually the ground paddles weren't open all the way (but the mechanism was so stiff that it seemed like they'd opened the full amount)
I knew someone on Facebook who lived on one as their permanent home, and so I assume other do as well.
edit: they also had a second, smaller boat they used as a greenhouse garden, it was pretty cool. They were the admin of some leftwing page, I forget which, but I think they stopped posting due to stress or the like. I wonder how they are
The UK has a crapload of canals. Every city pretty much will be on one, because it was the main pre-Industrial way to transport cargo.
Despite my complaints above, it's a cool experience and I'll probably do it again
That probably sucked for the person experiencing but it is very funny from the outside.
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No idea about how it is local, but the dock rights are whats brutal. For instance Amsterdam has a moratorium on new spots except if they develop a new area. The value of the spot on the market is around 200k atm. On top of that you have to pay a fee based on the size of your houseboat of around 1k/year.
You've got me wanting to try it now.
How manageable would it be for one person? I imagine going through locks and things might be a pain.
Right there with you. I just started this weekend, so I'm not sure if mine is triggered by something on the list or the abrupt change in diet.
The guy who trained us could do locks on his own, but he's been doing it for years
I would highly recommend finding a willing friend who is either confident with steering (they are bouncy as fuck so can take a bit of pinballing) or who is happy to do a lot of cranking
The boat we were on had two beds, so the main friendship level requirement is the ability to not yell at each other when things fuck up
Maybe East Anglia? Flat as fuck down there, compared to the 50 feet difference in elevation we traversed over a day and a half
The Canal and River Trust have volunteers that help on some of them, some are electronically operated (like the one I live opposite), some have permanent staff (I think the Thames has some of those still) and some are left up to the boaters
We had to operate them all primarily ourselves with volunteers providing some muscle (the Leeds Liverpool canal, for reference)
You can definitely live on a narrowvlboat solo, try watching the channel Cruising the Cut. He's since moved back to land but spent several years documenting what it's like to live on a narrowvlboat by yourself.
It is pretty expensive, but especially considering UK home prices, a bit of a cheaper option, especially if you continually cruise.
It's neat, it's interesting, I would like to try it, but alas, money and distance...
Today it happened again on my right side, but I was talking with someone at the time who stopped, looked at me and went "That was your head?!?", so safe to say it's not just loud inside my skull.
Would very much appreciate it not happening again.
Anywho, it eventually went away but occasionally resurfaces.
I managed to get a hold of the plumber and reschedule since it would be useless to be here. Two extra days of no showers.
I'd say about 60% know to treat a dead traffic light like a 4 way stop. That's extremely not 100% like it should be so collective punishment needs to be considered.
It is required as part of the licensing test so presumably at some point these assholes knew how to act.
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A theoretical question, not a suggestion, but would you be able to use the shower at the gym at the school?
Dead centre.
I'm unreasonably annoyed.
I could get a new screen protector fitted but that's money I'd rather not spend.
I will just grumble
Jawbone not sitting properly? Mine is kinda fucked up by a shitty orthodontist when I was a teen. Jaw joint pops when I open my mouth wide. The joint is directly next to the ear.