Posted on 04/23/2021 2:38:34 AM PDT by nickcarraway
He promised to send me his video of the event but I'm still waiting. Some folks are still technically challenged with their phones.
Yea I was going to post that. I figure it’s someone who already had a cracked foundation looking for a pay day. Tannerite is a fun little product to have some fun with. A friend blew up an old refrigerator one time. Well it actually only blew the doors off it.
“... people will do crazy things because of a lock down...”
May I add that people will do crazy things because it is a “new” faze ad they want to be part of the “in” crowd. I remember how all of this started and it was fine. People would have a small, family/friend party and there would be a cake (dyed pink or blue) and the color was hidden by thick frosting. A person was picked to cut the cake and reveal if the expected baby was a boy or girl. Simple and cute. Now it is explosions... simply so they can post it to social media to show they are cool. I hate to use “back in my day” but you either didn’t tell people to let them be surprised at the birth or you did. I did... I called my family after the sonogram and simply shared it in a wonderful, private conversation.
Copying and pasting from Internet articles picks up the embedded ads and blurbs, and if not edited out it makes for an unusual storyline.
OMG!!!!
The coming deluge of “celebrations
“I’m pregnant”
“He says he’ll marry me now”
“Gender reveal”
“The baby was born”
“The baby came home”
“The baby is one month old”
ect
ect
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Nope. Utter BS reporting, too.
“Our team of meteorologists said there were no earthquakes reported around that time.”
Meteorologists? They can’t get the weather right, why would they get seismology right?
Gender reveal is ridiculous because the doctors can be wrong.
The sonograms got my first two correct, but were wrong on the last one.
Yup. Police yourselves or others will want someone to police you. It's part of the whole "me first" lifestyles today.
Yes it does explode. No, it is not Dynamite, C4, TNT, or an implosion device.
It depends upon a lot of things, soil type, rebar, the actual concrete mix, the content of the water, how much water in the original mix. The best concrete is placed not poured. How it is cured is very important too.
We have one more variable in New England.
Frost heaving.
As the ground goes below freezing, usually 4 feet down, but depending on water content and rock/soil, as much as 12 feet, the moisture/water in the soil expands.
This exerts a tremendous force on basement walls, rocks, etc.
Most houses have full basements here.
If there is not sufficient rebar, and the soil is moist, the walls crack.
There are other interesting effects.
Rocks are pushed to the surface, from a half an inch to an inch or so a year.
Any road without proper drainage underneath and elevation above the ground water, gets frost heaves.
These can be REALLY exciting, up to a foot high.
BTW, when it gets really cold for a long time, 20 to 40 below zero, usually at night, you can hear and feel the pops as rocks underground are breaking apart and/or moving around your foundation.
Our house is over one hundred years old, the basement walls are fine, the floor has many with hairline cracks.
When we moved in forty some years ago a friend’s elderly father told us all about it, they used mules and something called a Mormon board (?), scraping down a small amount with each pull.
The concrete was mixed by hand.
When adding a sump pit, I discovered the floor was only about TWO INCHES THICK CONCRETE on a thin layer of cinders.
The first time I replaced an old wavy glass window... I thought WOW, I have never seen a 2x5???
Not exactly the 1-1/2 x 3-1/2 we use today!
The kitchen wall has a wall thimble from the old cook stove. Hidden behind the cabinets.
About 100 yards out my front window is a house built before the US Civil War. Nothing special about my house.
There have always been good craftsmen and some not so good craftsmen.
Many were trained by their father and the children learned the methods as they grew up.
It is no longer a craft. Computer engineering is great, but cedar pencil and slide rule put a man on the moon.
Too much complexity is destroying us today.
I love computer technology, but I hate how the power of it is being abused now.
Not here. The house at the farm is on hard redpan soil. It is expanding clay soil, so requires a lot of steel and a deep foundation. If you do that, it is solid forever.
I did know about frost heave. But did not know the details you described.
For a time I traveled to Nebraska and learned that their plumbing methods were vastly different and the it took 6 foot deep trenches to keep the damage under control.
I was in the Wholesale Hardware Distribution for almost 40 years. Called on, planned and oversaw set up of lots of lumber yards, farm stores and hardware outlets. From 1,000 sq. ft. to 100,000 sq. ft.
I don’t either. Lots of times during (or right after) using explosives or other construction people feel the vibrations which can be disturbing.
They start looking around their house and discover cracks and complain. Almost all the time those are old cracks but the owner never looked for them before. Often the “new” cracks even have moss inside of them!
Levels that are disturbing to humans are MUCH less than to a concrete foundation.
I wonder what’s up with the weird paragraph about the woman with the abdominal pain. Seems like an editing/proofreading error. Like it belongs in another story. Plus the date is March 8 in the paragraph.
“Surprised it wasn’t a group project by Katherine, Jamal, Latisha, and Eduardo (becoming common).”
You noticed that too. We are now being fed B.S.treisand by children now often foreigners.
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