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BHunter
12 minutes ago, pullstart said:

 

Well when you are draining 80 gallons of water to re-dope one npt fitting on the bottom.... you find yourself twittling thumbs... or surfing RedSquare!  Good news is all the sweat fittings are leak free!

 

By the way, shouldn’t you be building a horse barn right now?  :ychain:

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Good answer and good comeback.lol. I should be but my neighbor’s dog kept barking at me earlier and I’m trying to keep a low profile. I did not get a permit. Because I would have been denied. My other neighbor moved because the township made him stop building his 10’ gazebo. They said it was too much ground coverage. 

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Pullstart

We have a functioning water heater!  Some of the piping that I loosened to drain the boiler system is weeping, so I need to address that next.

 

 

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Jennifer

We use PEX and shark bits!  You do a really nice job with soldering though.  It about a forgotten talent!!!  Good for you!  To each there own!!  If truth be told we are all a bit crazy and set in our way!!  😂🤣

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Pullstart

A story of loss and flooding was our trip home 2 years ago after the Big Show.  Luckily today, we still have power and a good sump pump.  It has rained many inches for days at home and places that have never flooded are sweeping cars away.  My “bro” buddy just 2 miles from us was nice enough last night to go pump down our pool.  If too much water were to get behind the liner, well, that would be a big issue.  He had to drive through this to get out of his driveway... normally this little stream is about 5’ under the bridge.

 

 

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BHunter
35 minutes ago, pullstart said:

A story of loss and flooding was our trip home 2 years ago after the Big Show.  Luckily today, we still have power and a good sump pump.  It has rained many inches for days at home and places that have never flooded are sweeping cars away.  My “bro” buddy just 2 miles from us was nice enough last night to go pump down our pool.  If too much water were to get behind the liner, well, that would be a big issue.  He had to drive through this to get out of his driveway... normally this little stream is about 5’ under the bridge.

 

 

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That is a really good friend you have. Some people would just stay home if their driveway was flooded like that. 
 

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rjg854

Happy to hear you've got some good friends that look out for you.

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Sparky

  Glad to hear ya have a dry house and the pool is intact.

  Nice talking with you and your wife Saturday :handgestures-thumbupright:

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formariz

Good to have friends that care. Nice to have met you and family.

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8ntruck

Yup lots of rain lately.  I'm about an hour to the north east from @pullstart.   The small lake we are on is up about 6".  About 3" of that came in the last 24 hours.

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Stormin

There's a saying, "What North America gets today, the UK gets next week". Can you not keep it over there, please!

 

 

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Pullstart
1 hour ago, Stormin said:

There's a saying, "What North America gets today, the UK gets next week". Can you not keep it over there, please!

 

 


You can tell the people who say that... that we now have plenty!  Thanks!

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Handy Don

Good neighbors are a real treasure.

 

A LOT of people in the U.S. west and southwest, where there is ongoing multi-year drought, would have loved having that rain go "left" instead of "right"

 

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8ntruck

 :text-yeahthat: We all should be wanting it to go left instead of right.  That would help the ag industry out west.  Higher yields might help lower food prices...

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SylvanLakeWH

2 hours east of @pullstart… we got 4.2” of rain but very close by got over 6”!!! Lots of flooded / closed highways, basements etc…

 

We’re high and dry but our lake is only 2” from top of sea wall…

 

Solid week of rain forecast. I hope the weather forecasters are as wrong as usual…

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WHX??

Musta been one heck of a rain. River is way up, grass is green and cat dish was flooded. @Shynon says they got a bunch too. 

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Shynon

3" total so far in the last 24hrs

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Pullstart

We’re home, trailer plugged in and that’s good enough for the night.  Everything is dry and there are some nearby washouts where recent construction took place, but otherwise it looks like we could actually use some more rain on the lawn if you can believe it!

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seuadr
On 6/27/2021 at 8:34 PM, pullstart said:

We’re home, trailer plugged in and that’s good enough for the night.  Everything is dry and there are some nearby washouts where recent construction took place, but otherwise it looks like we could actually use some more rain on the lawn if you can believe it!

YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH!
 

I live on a hill so it doesn't impact me much, but, the rivers in town are CRAZY.

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