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  1. Deidre

    Deidre Follow thy heart

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    Big house or little house ...living off the grid seems like the future.
     
    Deidre, Jul 18, 2021
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    Sooner as opposed to later...............be prepared
     
    bluewatersurfer, Jul 18, 2021
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    Opt for the big crib...just my two cents
     
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    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    This happened to us when we lived in Southwestern Pa and the Dunkard Creek fish kill occurred. It was determined that an algae bloom killed everything. The bloom was caused from a discharge of high concentrations of chloride and salt from Consul Energy's Blacksville No. 2 and Shannopin's Bobtown Mines in the area.
    Consul had to pay $5.5 million in civil penalties, install a $200 million treatment plant, and pay $2.5 million in damages.
     
    MeAgain, Jul 19, 2021
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    We lived in Missoula, Mt when Mt St Helens erupted,heard the noise, and watched as the black cloud of ash approached. By late afternoon the street lights came on and ash of talcum powder consistency came filtering down. We were 500 miles downwind from the mountain! The next day a pale gray landscape greeted us and beetle tracks in the ash on our driveway.
     
    granite45, Jul 19, 2021
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    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/07/19/monkey-b-virus-china-human/


    Ummmm...
     
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    wooleeheron, Jul 19, 2021
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  19. Deidre

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    During hurricane season in the south, there are quite a few schools and such made into temporary shelters. Is that where you went then, or did you leave the area? The thing about the hurricane shelters here, you can’t leave whenever you want - have to wait for the local government to say it’s okay.
     
    Deidre, Jul 19, 2021
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  21. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    Well I'll tell ya.
    At the time I was sitting in the faculty room of a junior high school where I was teaching. It had a window facing the front of the building and we started to see cars pulling up to the front door and women would literally jump out of the cars and run into the building. In a little while they'd run back out dragging some kid behind them, jump in the car and speed off. Pretty soon we began to think something was going on. Air raid sirens began going off.
    Soon the word came down that TMI was having some sort of melt down and the school was being evacuated as we were about ten miles from the reactor, but we had to stay until every child was cleared from the building and buses had to be rounded up. In those days there were no cell phones, schools had limited land lines and few TVs and radios so we were pretty much in the dark.
    After the kids were all evacuated I headed home and contacted my wife who worked in a pharmacy. They were getting overrun with people trying to get prescriptions filled so they had meds.
    While she was trying to get away from work I put articles of clothing in a suitcase and threw it in the car. As soon as she got home we packed up the cat and took off for my parents house in Pittsburgh, which was about 200 miles away.
    On Saturday we watched on my parents' TV as a hydrogen bubble was found on the top of Unit 2 .
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    MeAgain, Jul 20, 2021
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    That has to be a terrifying ordeal. Can’t imagine. :disappointed: Thanks for sharing.
     
    Deidre, Jul 20, 2021
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    Deidre, Jul 21, 2021
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    Deidre, Jul 27, 2021
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    hotwater, Jul 27, 2021
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    Deidre Follow thy heart

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    Here’s an recent article:
    Can we stretch existing Covid vaccines to inoculate more people?

    You could be right but I’m wondering if that is more of a problem in the US, because other countries seem to not have that issue. That said, it’s interesting to me because if the vaccine’s efficacy stays the same as full dosages, then “stretching” them to meet global demands without having to manufacture new ones, would help in the shorter term, I would think. It will be interesting to see with the variants, how this plays out.
     
    Deidre, Jul 28, 2021
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    It should be the science news of the past century, but hasn’t been. Governor Jay Inslee participated in ground breaking for a new plant in Everett, Washington to apply a fusion to electricity pilot plant by Helion Corporation. Many of the thorny issues about fusion power have been resolved and this is the most positive news for green energy, climate change and the earth possible.
     
    granite45, Jul 28, 2021
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  35. hotwater

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    Perseids meteor shower peaks for the next 2 days. Up to 40 meteors per hour.

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    hotwater, Aug 11, 2021
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  37. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    Interesting, I just got back avout a half hour ago from viewing them at Kinzua Bridge State Park Skywalk.

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    Unfortunately clouds were rolling by but we still saw six.
     
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    I also enjoy viewing rare and unusual astronomical phenomena, but on too many occasions have been stymied by overcast conditions or the glow from city lights.

    looks like you chose what otherwise would have been the perfect location

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    hotwater, Aug 12, 2021
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