That's true but since some time now, the USA, Chinese and Russian added to the game. So the numbers of players increased to the detriment of African people (but not to their leaders)Quote:
Originally Posted by FunkyDexter
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That's true but since some time now, the USA, Chinese and Russian added to the game. So the numbers of players increased to the detriment of African people (but not to their leaders)Quote:
Originally Posted by FunkyDexter
...permits this segue!Quote:
Originally Posted by Delaney
Party crashers at the pool party just barged in!
Let's see how long you can keep that one afloat!
The Jersey problem is unsolvable as the Jersey and France share territorial waters. And the island is in the french exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Same for Guernesey. But it is also true for the English channel and the sea between the UK and the Ireland.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
not long if it ends at the bottom of the well where we won't find any cod or haddock but if the barge docks, we won't need anymore a float..Quote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
first, I thought you made a typo but knowing you, I checked twice. This is a good one :thumb:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
It wasn't the only one in that post, either. Though, they almost fell as flat fish.
oh no, I saw the whole ones and they feel not so flat if they have humpback.
I just spoke to my dad and brother-in-law, apparently Lake Charles is flooding.
Last year they were hit with the strongest hurricane on record to hit Louisiana, followed by a strong CAT-3, and now this.
My dad's apartments took on 7" of water and because he's in a flood zone X (people mistakenly call that as not being in a flood zone), he doesn't have any flood insurance.
I have a friend who lost everything from Hurricane Laura, started the process of rebuilding, and has lost everything again. It's a very bleak time in SW Louisiana right now.
Wow, no idea things were that rough. Didn't pay attention to news for a few days, TV or radio. I have WeatherNation on monitor 2 now via Pluto TV channel 217.
Couldn't find their own direct stream. Maybe they stopped doing that?
Isn't the southern part of that state slowly sinking? I've seen structures, like old Civil War forts, which are now partially submerged.
I'm not sure about sinking, but we're definitely losing land due to erosion. My wife inherited several acres of property in Leeville that is now completely submerged.
So...she has now inherited a fish pond?
I believe the government now owns it.
Yeah, there's some laws about waterways. It's navigable waters, but that term is VERY loosely defined. It allows people to fish on streams running across private property out here. I've always been a bit uncertain about those rules.
She's just accepted the fact that:
- The property is inaccessible, except by boat
- She was young when she inherited it, so she never had the opportunity to use it anyways
A buddy of mine told me about a friend who had some property where he was hoping to open something like a B&B, resort, restaurant, or something like that....then the '97 flood came through, and his property is now vertical. The flat ground was all washed down the river.
Out here, floods don't happen the way they do in the East. In the East, rivers tend to get out of their banks and wander through the neighborhood. Out here, rivers stay in their banks until they are quite large...then they start digging. We have what are called blowouts, where a stream will suddenly scour the channel downwards, and can move fantastic amounts of debris from very small drainages.
I was fishing with a buddy up on one river. There were a few clouds towards evening, and we got a few scattered raindrops, but not enough to wet the ground thoroughly. When we got up in the morning, the river looked like chocolate pudding. Somewhere upstream of us, there had been a downpour, and some tributary blew out. The amount of water was insignificant in the river we were fishing, so it didn't look like it had risen much at all, but the amount of dirt that came out of that tributary had thoroughly choked the river. Upon seeing that, we packed up our tents and headed for town. Fish sure wouldn't be biting in those conditions.
I always wondered how people drowned during flash floods because the way that they work here is that, yes it floods, but it consistently rises. So you know pretty quickly if you won't be able to leave a particular area.
Then again there are those idiots who know that an area is flooded, try to drive through it anyways, and then flood their car, but rarerly ever do they drown.
People who die in canyons usually are caught by surprise with nowhere to go. Outside of canyons, it tends to be people being a bit incautious. They don't realize how powerful fast flowing water is, and they try to drive through one of our blowouts. It only takes about a foot of water to sweep a car off the road, and then they're done.
Canyon flash floods are freaky. The water level can go from a trickle to tens of feet of raging torrent in seconds.
It's gotten crazy cold for May. I've had to turn the heat back on in the house.
It's been chilly here too, down to like the 60s. Usually May (especially late May) we're seeing highs in the low 90s and lows in the upper 70s.
I would have thought that this colder weather would have helped with hurricane season, something I've always heard was longer/colder winters bring less hurricanes, but NOAA just predicted another busy hurricane season.