In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Quote:You got me a little curious.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Went out after that and picked up a few gallons of ammonia for the racoon. Thought about mixing it with bleach to really smoke them out, but everybody seems to think that's a really bad idea.
I'm going to try just the ammonia first, but desperate times call for desperate measures. If I have to sleep out in the garage for a few days I will if that's what it takes to get them out. Seeing what I saw yesterday I really don't care if they get poisoned and die. I'm so done with this.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
In your belief system, how many breathes of cyanide do you imagine you can endure?
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Still finding thins in weird places.
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Still finding thins in weird places.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:You got me a little curious.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Went out after that and picked up a few gallons of ammonia for the racoon. Thought about mixing it with bleach to really smoke them out, but everybody seems to think that's a really bad idea.
I'm going to try just the ammonia first, but desperate times call for desperate measures. If I have to sleep out in the garage for a few days I will if that's what it takes to get them out. Seeing what I saw yesterday I really don't care if they get poisoned and die. I'm so done with this.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
In your belief system, how many breathes of cyanide do you imagine you can endure?
The only reason I knew about even thinking to try this was because my grandpa cleaned the entire basement with mixed bleach and ammonia when my uncle (mom's side, his son) and my dad (they were best friends back then) "wussed out" and wouldn't do it because they said they were getting sick. He's so stubborn (a family trait), that he endured it the entire time it took to clean the basement.
Which was immediately followed by a trip to the emergency room and the scare of his wife's and children's lives up to that point.
He spent hours in close contact with the mixture in an unventilated (or at least poorly ventilated basement)...
I was talking about putting it out in the porch attic, above a 3 season room with plenty of ventilation which was largely blocked off by walls to the house I'd be sleeping in.
And further, I stated in the quote you put here that I was willing to camp out in the garage while it did it's work.
But anyhow... I didn't do it. My mom broke down crying and saying she wished she never moved so she could come and check up on me because she didn't believe me when I said I wasn't going to do it and said she was going to lose her first born son... I guess the memory of what happened to her dad was suddenly fresh in her mind.
To answer your question though, I don't suppose I'd live very long messing around with cyanide. I never looked into it before. Never had any reason to.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Hey Jack
Thanks for the update!
Hi Brenda
So every day you find a new surprise? Is it like Christmas in summer?
How's your brother doing btw? Still making progress? To me, that's the most hopeful thing. Not to say people don't get better after going backwards for a while, but the going backwards can be hard on everyone. So to keep going forward is always a good thing, imo.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Hey Jack
Thanks for the update!
Hi Brenda
So every day you find a new surprise? Is it like Christmas in summer?
How's your brother doing btw? Still making progress? To me, that's the most hopeful thing. Not to say people don't get better after going backwards for a while, but the going backwards can be hard on everyone. So to keep going forward is always a good thing, imo.
Somethings are definitely a surprise that's for sure kiki. I wouldn't call it Christmas but they are good surprises.
As I said last week he was transferred to another rehab hospital. He posted today on FB, that he was up using a walker for the first time today. He said it was in the gym and physio. So, yes he is getting better just taking time.
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A relative smashed one shoulder totally and chipped the elbow bone on the other arm. Her shoulder had to be replaced with a metal one and the bone chips taken out of the elbow. Anyway, I did the first week or two of passive range of motion physio in the hospital. And I can say it involved extra hits on the morphine drip ahead of time, paleness, sweating, some huffing and groaning, and grit. Then the rehab moved to her using her own muscles to move her arm, and that was a whole 'nother kind of effort.
The surgeon said the only thing she probably wouldn't be able to do was reach over her head and touch her opposite ear. After a year of at-home progressive rehab she had her last follow-up visit with the surgeon, and she proudly reached over her head and touched the opposite ear. Rehab can work wonders.
I have hope for your brother.
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Ridgecrest earthquake aftershocks are moving toward dangerous faults, sparking concerns of triggered temblors
Quote:At the time, Signy pointed it out to me, so I tracked the sequence.
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Ridgecrest earthquake aftershocks are moving toward dangerous faults, sparking concerns of triggered temblors
The U.S. Geological Survey says the chance of an earthquake of magnitude 7 or greater from the July 5 earthquake is 1 in 300 — “possible, but with a low probability.”
Some aftershocks have rumbled northwest of the Searles Valley earthquake, approaching the Owens Valley Fault. That fault triggered an earthquake of perhaps magnitude 7.8 or 7.9 in 1872, one of the largest in California’s modern record.
The Ridgecrest aftershocks have also headed southeast toward the Garlock fault, a lesser-known fault capable of producing an earthquake of magnitude 8 or more. The fault along the northern edge of the Mojave Desert can send shaking south and west into Bakersfield and Ventura and Los Angeles counties. “Those are places we would be more concerned,” U.S. Geological Survey research geophysicist Morgan Page said. “Little earthquakes are telling us where big earthquakes are more likely.”
Perhaps the most famous example of triggered earthquakes in California occurred in 1992. An April 22 magnitude 6.1 earthquake in Joshua Tree National Park began a quake sequence that migrated north in the coming months.
Then on June 28, an earthquake 63 times stronger ruptured — the magnitude 7.3 Landers earthquake with an epicenter more than 25 miles northeast of Palm Springs. Three hours later, a magnitude 6.3 quake struck about 20 miles west, just a few miles away from Big Bear.
“We always worry when seismicity picks up very close to a major fault or if it’s at the end of a major fault — whether it’ll push it enough to start a major rupture,” California Institute of Technology seismologist Egill Hauksson said.
Sometimes fears of seismic triggering don’t materialize.
The Easter Sunday magnitude 7.2 quake of 2010 directed tectonic stress toward Southern California from Mexico. There was concern about a potential triggered quake on the Elsinore fault, capable of a magnitude 7 quake, which extends into Orange County and the Los Angeles area and could produce devastating damage to the region. But seismic activity eventually ended before it reached that fault, Hauksson said.
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“Every earthquake actually increases the probability of more earthquakes,” Page said. In fact, earthquake scientists actually model quakes like disease epidemics. “It’s based on the idea on how a contagion spreads to a population,” she said. “Earthquakes are like that … in general, if there are a lot of earthquakes going on, it’s more probable for a large earthquake to go on.”
While earthquakes do relieve stress to some areas around them, we become less safe after earthquakes because they “redistribute the stress and can push other faults in the area to failure,” Page said.
One big observation so far has been that there’s now a line of seemingly missing earthquakes between the northern end of the July earthquakes and the southern end of where the Owens Valley fault finished rupturing in 1872.
“That’s a kind of thing seismologists can get nervous looking at. It’s got to be filled in,” said USGS seismologist Susan Hough, who has researched the Owens Valley fault extensively. “There’s certainly room to put another earthquake.”
Both the July quakes and the 1872 Owens Valley quake lie in one of California’s great seismic zones, the Eastern California Shear Zone, which generates earthquakes as a result of the southwestern part of California sliding up northwest, toward Alaska, compared with the northeastern part of the state. (Yes, that does mean that eventually, L.A. will be right next to San Francisco a long time from now.)
The San Andreas fault gNOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Kiki,
I'm sure that my brother will be okay. Now, that he is moving a little more he won't be so frustrated as he has been.
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