Posted on 06/25/2013 4:56:52 AM PDT by Daffynition
TUPPER LAKE - A fire destroyed a home at 15 East Rounds Ave. Saturday morning after a compost pile spontaneously combusted.
The compost pile was located next to a deck that was attached to the house.
"Once that organic material reaches a certain temperature, it ignites," said Franklin County Fire Investigator John Bashaw. "Something like that needs to be kept away from a house."
(Excerpt) Read more at adirondackdailyenterprise.com ...
And nanny Bloomberg wants the New Yorkers to compost their waste IN THEIR APARTMENTS! Stuck on stupid.
“Compost ignites home”.
I’d really be worried about a fire in the White House if odumbo spent a bit more time there instead of always “on vacation”. He is a pretty big pile of “compost”.
That is one way to get some charcoal to add to their compost pile. ;-)
I’m wondering if the composting homeowner was a highly educated but clueless tree-hugger or an illiterate and clueless redneck.
Why, oh why would you put it there?
Mine are waaay in the very back of my yard - this is the time of year when the internal temps start to sky-rocket.
(I use 4X4X4 ft frames with chicken wire - pull out 8 wheel barrows full of black soil twice a year).
Wow! my little home town made it to FR ;)
Tupper lake is a little place DEVASTATED by liberal environmentalism, the Adk Park agency and Albany in general.
I don’t personally know these people but I can tell you that my mother just left there yesterday visiting her old friends on vacation and said the place looks like it is collapsing on itself.
Greens shut down the only industries it had years ago. The biggest area employer is Sunmount DDSO which is a combo mental institution/criminally insane asylum.
Literally.
The answer lies between. Tupper has been invaded by greenies and the whole area has been propagandized to extrems. Think “Well meaning redneck brainwashed by dangerous liberal propaganda”.
It wasn’t the compost - it was Global Warming.
Illiterate clueless rednecks don’t “do” compost. They have too much sense to start fricking around with something that takes up all their time when they could go buy a bag of fertilizer from WM at $12/25lb bag...
I am curious, because this is in the “forever wild” Adirondack park, will they be able to rebuild this house?
Is Tupper Lake the birthplace of Tupperware?
I left in 96 so I cannot say for sure. But I guaren-damn tee-you that there will be a ton of environmental paperwork and ‘permits’ needed before they do. Even back then there were issues with APA and building/rebuilding..
Tupper has an interesting history with landuse. Look up the name John Reandeau (IIRC) and his battle with the APA over his land that almost came to a shootout with the state Troopers.
Nope ;) But until about 7-8 years ago it produced most of the plastic spoons in America (OWD Corp). Then it became ‘unprofitable’. I will leave you to speculate as to why.
Warning for home gardeners.
The really strange thing is that the soil there is like rain forest soil. It is SO fertile I’m surprised the dead buried in it don’t come back to life.
The only reason to compost there aside from the fact the eco mafia charges a fortune for garbage disposal (literally, they shut all the local dumps down) is to ‘feel good’)
I went to SUNY Syracuse Forestry school. I knew several stumpies that had gone up to Cranberry Lake forestry camp/school and Paul Smiths College. I had buddies that grew up in Lowville and Cranberry Lake.
I also had a friend who’s family owned a camp on Saranac Lake. I was only accessible by boat. They rebuilt the whole place. It was incredible the hoops they had to jump through to rebuild the place. Also, just the logistics of using a barge to get the materials to the site or waiting until the lake was frozen to bring stuff out to it was a pain.
Oil prices, regulations and global warming?
They have stopped motorized lake access in many places and are trying to ban them from the park altogether.
In my youth I made many a trip with my uncle into Cranberry Lake logging...when that was the industry there. Tahaus, Whitney Park (now ‘managed’ by the Sierra Club” and all those places. I don’t even know if Deferiet still has the mill.
Now most are closed to the public.
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