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SSGrower

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Instead of building a stupid wall on the border, maybe they should start building fire walls in Cali.

They used to have killer floods here so they built a dam system in the '30's and '40's. Put people to work in the depression.

They can build hurricane resistant and earthquake resistant. Going to have to get the engineers on fire spreading suppression and fire resistant.

Surely we can still solve problems in this country.
There was couple that relied on ther unmaintained fire suppression system in the north fork fire, they are no longer with us.

Fire resistant structures and mitigation are good, but in a raging crown fire or fast moving grass fire with high fuel loads, I surrender to mother nature, she had the best system for managing this, we fucked it up by suppressing every fire in the last 150 years.
 

SSGrower

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First night of salting was a success. No wrecks or equipment issues. I'm off to bed after a couple beers and a smoke.
For sme reason I thought you were going to take an epsom salt bath.

We wont engineer our way out of the wui fire issue, reducing the fuel load is the no.1 thing to do. Unfortunately this fuel is more expensive to harvest than dead dinosaurs, and the labor involved is, well, quite massive.
 

grilledcheese101

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With the cold weather here, i took my subwoofer system inside for the season, like i do every year.

Only this time i still have cravings for ridiculous bass.

I hotwired an old xbox 360 power brick to give me 12v constant at 9 amps or so to my mono amplifier (ran a 10 amp fuse inline to be safe) i used the speaker level input on my cerwin vega ioemhl to take signal from a crappy radio and boost it into my mono amp. Havent put a multi meter on anything yet but it all works. Now just cleaning up wires and putting a capacitor before the amp to keep voltage a bit more stable.

2 12" alpine type s dual 2 ohm wired to 2 ohm final impendance at amp. Placed in the corner of my basement on concrete floors, can hit 100+ db with ease. Lol had to turn it down cause it rattled my hps lamp loose from 2 floors away.

Thats what i did lol.
 

tangerinegreen555

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I got to meet another RIU member, his wife and good friend yesterday.

@elkamino - we'll have to plan this better next time my friend & nice knowing you.
That's always fun, isn't it?

This Isn't fun.
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Fucking frozen rain. I have to do something with this shed ramp. Slippy in the rain too. And I need to load up on magnesium chloride for the pavers and driveway.

I'm sure they got a few pallets in at the local home improvement place. Dog paw friendly but I wipe them off anyway. Towels on floor by the door season.

I don't like winter much. Sorry.
 

curious2garden

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That's always fun, isn't it?

This Isn't fun.
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Fucking frozen rain. I have to do something with this shed ramp. Slippy in the rain too. And I need to load up on magnesium chloride for the pavers and driveway.

I'm sure they got a few pallets in at the local home improvement place. Dog paw friendly but I wipe them off anyway. Towels on floor by the door season.

I don't like winter much. Sorry.
About every fourth year we get a bit of snow but nothing we need to do anything about. Our winter woes are easier.
 

BudmanTX

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That's always fun, isn't it?

This Isn't fun.
View attachment 4233582
Fucking frozen rain. I have to do something with this shed ramp. Slippy in the rain too. And I need to load up on magnesium chloride for the pavers and driveway.

I'm sure they got a few pallets in at the local home improvement place. Dog paw friendly but I wipe them off anyway. Towels on floor by the door season.

I don't like winter much. Sorry.
friends of mine in the hill country always use warm water when something like that happens, or if they see anything coming salt......but that's them. In my area when something like that happens, i just use salt which is very rare for me....
 

ANC

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That's always fun, isn't it?

This Isn't fun.
View attachment 4233582
Fucking frozen rain. I have to do something with this shed ramp. Slippy in the rain too. And I need to load up on magnesium chloride for the pavers and driveway.

I'm sure they got a few pallets in at the local home improvement place. Dog paw friendly but I wipe them off anyway. Towels on floor by the door season.

I don't like winter much. Sorry.
I thought you broke the window.
My wife brought me a Reese's Peanut butter cup
 

curious2garden

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