H2O

17 minutes ago, MN Transplant said:

After that washout weekend, I’m now at 0.06”  in the last two weeks.  The pollen is everywhere.

That was pathetic for rain all weekend

And now that the Caps dismal season is done I really hope Lavs isn’t brought back. We need a new coach willing to play younger players

9 minutes ago, nj2va said:

First thing they should do is enter an agreement with NPS and DC to build a retractable roof stadium at RFK site. 

The only place the team should be is in DC. All the magic left the team when they moved

1 minute ago, MN Transplant said:

Yes!  You are paying for the sewage charge no matter if your water is going there or not.  

I absolutely HATED that part of the water bills.  You have no idea how many times I had to explain that to customers.  That and how they thought tax dollars went to pay for us.  Nope.  You flushy, you pay.  You brushy teethy, you pay.  You need to have greenest grassy, you pay.  We are like the cable bill.  But not as assholish.  

^these posts brought to you by your lone water lobby person called: me

3 hours ago, MN Transplant said:

It is a 100% IMBY game.  I conceptually hate using water for lawns/gardens.  It is so energy intensive to provide clean drinking water and I’m just going to dump hundreds of gallons on the ground because it won’t rain?  Awful.

This here.  I can 100% tell y'all that when spring and summer hit the main drain on the systems are lawn watering that runs for hours.  Most water tanks basically get dragged down starting at 5am.  Water utilities basically spend all day keeping pace with demand and never refilling those tanks until 11pm when people start to go to bed.  

The entire night is spent refilling tanks for the start of the next day's demands.  I hate sprinkler systems

I'm sure there will be plans to expand treatment plants again soon due to ever increasing demands.  The fact that it costs what it does for water is amazing.  And remember its NEVER water that costs as much on your bill.  75% of a water bill can be from the sewage charge which is based on water consumption which is another reason not to water lawns.  

5 hours ago, mattie g said:

What I find interesting is that when things are dry, there's this big concern about "drought," but when it's been wet there's basically no discussion about it. I guess that's because there's no term for anti-drought except when there are flooding concerns.

Well speaking from what my former profession was, when abnormally dry conditions hit in the winter and spring there is a growing concern because that is when municipalities stockpile water.  The reason they want natural help is because aquifers stay good and reservoirs are good to go for summer.  When spring and summer hit thats when demands jump and thats typically our dry seasons(late summer).  And if groundwater levels fall too much then what happens is when waters are released from reservoirs the ground along they way soaks it up before it gets to where it needs to be.  So early dry isn't great from a long term perspective.  

So yeah, i don't like drought conditions to come about mainly because it take a long, long, long, long time of surplus rains to get things back to square.  Heavy dumping rains don't do that well.  Constant steady rains over a prolonged period do.  

89.2 is my high today

32. Frosty again

Got down to 33 with a ton of frost

Happy Easter!

30° different this morning from my high of 87

36 minutes ago, MN Transplant said:

Some initiation near Charlottesville and Harrisonburg.

i've initiated my chasing from the sofa with booze.

87 for my high.  Back to back U80s.  

My dream to chase recklessly, zero meter a TOR, get rolled and arrogantly brag has been destroyed. 
 

So I’m just gonna sofa chase any storms today. 

Had to turn on the AC. House was 82°. Cooler outside this morning but gonna leave the AC on until the front passes

19 minutes ago, H2O said:

Just hit 86° IMBY

Now 87.2°. Roasting

Just hit 86° IMBY

Low of 37

There was a horrible wreck near me last night that I got stuck in. It appears a car didn’t yield to a fire truck out on a call. Def see a lot of that where cars just don’t move out of the way or stop to allow EMTs to pass

1 hour ago, mattie g said:

We definitely want to push social media more, but man...it's like pulling teeth. There's a handful of people who actually work hard to try to make it work, but it never feels like enough. I've mentioned to the Board that if you search "pool" in Google Maps near us, our pool doesn't show up, but no one does anything about it. It's insane! There are also a lot of ideas from Board members and neighbors, but then they look at us two swim team reps and assume we'll put their ideas into action.

I think I've hit the frustration stage of the team rep role after my bright-eyed optimism of last year.

It makes you jaded pretty quickly. You value the ones that help and give death stares to those you know COULD help but don’t. 
 

6 minutes ago, mappy said:

It’s amazing to me how very basic driving skills, like turning to look over your shoulder when going to change lanes, is lost on people. A quick glance could have saved lives.

I’ve been trying to get my daughter to learn this as she starts driving. Mirrors can’t always give the full picture and prevent two people merging into the same lane at the same time. You have to look. 

I haven’t had to take a DOT traffic flagging and safety class for a while but I can def tell you that the truck parked where it is is the first line of defense against a vehicle slamming into a work zone. They are supposed to be deployed a distance away so that upon impact it doesn’t get pushed into the work zone. Not sure what the required distance is between crash truck and work zone. OSHA and other rules set that. 
 

As far as lane closures, that might almost depend on work and time of day and the permit. There are rules for when work zones along highways can be set up during certain times of the day. Lane closure might not have been permitted. We can’t see the signs set out indicating what kind of work is being done and if there were arrow boards and so on. 
 

So that video doesn’t give all the info for how well the crew set up that work area and if they followed proper protocols. 
 

This could be where the safety crew set up as needed and this was just a rare type of accident that no amount of prep could have stopped. 
 

Blame needs to be put squarely on the two drivers for how things played out. Speed, lack of awareness of the work zone, failing to maintain safe distance, improper lane change and any other factors

5 minutes ago, pazzo83 said:

I think Metro is getting there (yesterday they recorded 404k trips, which is about 65-70% of prepandemic ridership) - the new GM gets it.  We'll see how the next year goes.  Paul Wiedefeld - the prior GM - really left the agency in a cluster with the 7000-series trains.  They have finally found the issue with that, so 100% of trains should be available by late spring.

The yellow line closing didn't help the VA people from not using their cars.  Hopefully repairs like what they have done will ensure better reliability