Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[Beer can]

On a completely different topic.
Our water well..... File this under the "who'da think" catagory.

So as a recap:
1) it stopped working the previous Sunday night.
2) Monday started vinegar cleanse
3) we'd started to do purge. Not working. Did troubleshooting I could think of and then call our well folks.
4) Friday he's finally able to come test it himself. Yup, gotta pull it. Said Saturday morning 1st thing. (Turns out he was already flustered with a client he was headed to after check ours)
5) it's almost lunch time and I call to see if they are alright - turns out the brand new pump he installed Friday failed so he was busy running the DOA pump back to fort worth for replacement and would be over when done with this client (3 times they had to pull it up before finally getting it to work right.)
6) they show up about 2-ish..... Discovered the reason why it's was showing voltage but, no amps sent down the hole.....
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He has seen the pipe bulge up like a baseball bat a few times over the years from the pump overheating.... He was surprised to see the pump not still on the end of the pipe.

He was very pleased with how good I had been caring for the well & that the vinegar cleanse had done such a good job the last few years on the outside of the pipes.

Also discovered the check valve was dead & the power cable had lost its water tire status & water was bubbling outta the seperate wire strands.... So..... New power line down the hole, check valve, pump and motor.
This picture shows the 15+ years of buildup inside the pipe from the silica sand and minerals in our water.
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Currently in hour number 4 of purging the milky mix from the well.

So I fully expect to be doing laundry & dishwasher before too much longer.

We kinda went through the same thing few years ago. When we bought our house had awesome water pressure. Live low in a valley mountains all around us so artesian well only 50 foot deep never run out of water. Pump is in our cellar, over 100 yr old house. When we moved here water pressure would drop as filters in cellar plugged up, change them and it would come back. Then yrs later it wouldn't. Pressure so bad if someone was taking a shower you could turn the faucet on in the kitchen and no water would come out.
I replaced the pressure tank the one we had was bad, bad bladder in it. Didn't help.
DW made me change the pump in cellar even though I insisted it wasn't the prob. TSC had one pretty cheap so no biggie it didn't help either. Well was underground so had to dig it up. When I pulled the two inch black plastic water pipe up thinking maybe there was a bad check valve (turned out there wasn't one on the pipe, there is one by the pump). Turned out the pipe down the well was plugged, all the way only maybe a pencil size hole that the water was going through. Replaced it been great since.

 

[Beer can]

Funny story about our house. Few yrs after we bought it had a (it's about a hundred yards from the road) had a car stop and sit there, I went outside, they came up the drive, older couple. Husband said they lived in Colorado but he grew up in our house back in the early 60's only family here that had a TV so all the neighbors would visit just to watch it. Asked if he could look around. So we walked around outside, he telling me and his wife how everything looked back then. Then he asked if it wasn't too much if he could go inside, wanted to reminisce... I didn't know what to say first thing that popped in my head was the Miranda Lambert song "The House That Built Me" so I had to. DW was so mad, really angry bringing strangers into our house. He had obviously been here before, walk into our house into the kitchen then dinning room has two old doors next to each other he immediately pointed to the left door and said 'my dad put the bathroom in, just had a outhouse when we moved here' (it is where the bathroom is) And then he pointed to a little cabinet thing that is still on our wall other side, bottom big shelf folds down on little chains, he points at it and says he remembered his mom sitting there and writing and making out bills. Took them upstairs he told us what bedroom his was, (it's lathe and plaster many layers of wallpaper right now) said his mom painted a big whale in the ocean on one wall, I'm going to look for it when we remodel the room and send him a pic if it's there underneath.
They thanked us and left.
DW was still really mad at me.
Few months later got a thing in the mail saying we had to sign for a package from Colorado and pick it up from the PO.
I told her ha ha, I bet he sent us a million dollars, said they didn't have any kids. She says go pick it up and don't you dare open it till you get home. Get here with it, she opens it up. Big box of Colorado chocolate covered hazelnuts, she hands it to me and says there is your million dollars Lol!
And there was a card with a heartfelt letter thanking us for letting them in our home, and a hundred dollar Home Depot gift card saying little something to help your remodel. Ha!!! DW!! Made a hundred bucks for a half hour tour of our house! She's still mad, I still feel good inside giving him a chance to reminisce.

 

[Beer can]

Yesterday i attended a funeral, a very sad event, held outside under a tent. However, probably 140 or so people attended, including a large group of fire fighters and police, co-workers of one of the parents involved. Maybe 30% of the people present wore face masks, and lots of hugging went on, and it wasn't anything like a 'social distanced' event. I stayed out of reach, wearing my mask, and didn't attend the dinner planned at a restaurant afterwards.
It's hard to do the safe thing, given the circumstances, but I do hope more illness doesn't come out of this. Why? Just because people know each other, and it's a very tragic death, does it make sense to ignore the pandemic? I don't understand...
Mary

Many of us haven't been affected by it. I think that is the prob. It's a good thing we haven't been affected by it, but it changes nothing sadly. Many of us still do not know anybody that has had it, or died from it, and we have been months in a shutdown.
Not saying it would be better if we did, just it's hard to comply with all of it when we still haven't experienced it.

 

[electrycmonk]

Funny story about our house. Few yrs after we bought it had a (it's about a hundred yards from the road) had a car stop and sit there, I went outside, they came up the drive, older couple. Husband said they lived in Colorado but he grew up in our house back in the early 60's only family here that had a TV so all the neighbors would visit just to watch it. Asked if he could look around. So we walked around outside, he telling me and his wife how everything looked back then. Then he asked if it wasn't too much if he could go inside, wanted to reminisce... I didn't know what to say first thing that popped in my head was the Miranda Lambert song "The House That Built Me" so I had to. DW was so mad, really angry bringing strangers into our house. He had obviously been here before, walk into our house into the kitchen then dinning room has two old doors next to each other he immediately pointed to the left door and said 'my dad put the bathroom in, just had a outhouse when we moved here' (it is where the bathroom is) And then he pointed to a little cabinet thing that is still on our wall other side, bottom big shelf folds down on little chains, he points at it and says he remembered his mom sitting there and writing and making out bills. Took them upstairs he told us what bedroom his was, (it's lathe and plaster many layers of wallpaper right now) said his mom painted a big whale in the ocean on one wall, I'm going to look for it when we remodel the room and send him a pic if it's there underneath.
They thanked us and left.
DW was still really mad at me.
Few months later got a thing in the mail saying we had to sign for a package from Colorado and pick it up from the PO.
I told her ha ha, I bet he sent us a million dollars, said they didn't have any kids. She says go pick it up and don't you dare open it till you get home. Get here with it, she opens it up. Big box of Colorado chocolate covered hazelnuts, she hands it to me and says there is your million dollars Lol!
And there was a card with a heartfelt letter thanking us for letting them in our home, and a hundred dollar Home Depot gift card saying little something to help your remodel. Ha!!! DW!! Made a hundred bucks for a half hour tour of our house! She's still mad, I still feel good inside giving him a chance to reminisce.

Pure awesomeness and a jumping high five for such a compassionate act!

Helping folks with memories is worth every nanosecond!

 

[Kiwibird]

You can actually play online very effectively through Roll20. Have you heard of it before? It works really well and it's how we're hosting our campaign.

Yes, or use any chatroom in conjunction with dndbeyond.

 

[feather13]

Yesterday i attended a funeral, a very sad event, held outside under a tent. However, probably 140 or so people attended, including a large group of fire fighters and police, co-workers of one of the parents involved. Maybe 30% of the people present wore face masks, and lots of hugging went on, and it wasn't anything like a 'social distanced' event. I stayed out of reach, wearing my mask, and didn't attend the dinner planned at a restaurant afterwards.
It's hard to do the safe thing, given the circumstances, but I do hope more illness doesn't come out of this. Why? Just because people know each other, and it's a very tragic death, does it make sense to ignore the pandemic? I don't understand...
Mary

So sorry you experienced this and sorry for your loss. It must have been hard to both grieve at the funeral and see people not complying with social distancing and mask protocols. I wonder how many people with get the virus out of the 140 who attended.

 

[WhyDoILikeChickens]

Many of us haven't been affected by it. I think that is the prob. It's a good thing we haven't been affected by it, but it changes nothing sadly. Many of us still do not know anybody that has had it, or died from it, and we have been months in a shutdown.
Not saying it would be better if we did, just it's hard to comply with all of it when we still haven't experienced it.

I know maybe a dozen people that had the virus. Even multiple over 70 yo. None that have passed from it. I believe the virus was here last year in fall. Symptoms are blood clots and pneumonia, last year I was hospitalized with blood clots and got pneumonia that wouldn't go away. Didn't even know I had pneumonia, it showed on CT scan.
That's when "community pneumonia " basically went through everyone I know.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

I know several people who have had it, all over 35 but nobody over 60. (To be fair, I don't have a lot of people I know-know in that age range.) And one person who died from it that my partner was very close to and I had met a few times. She was a really nice person and she's going to be missed.

 

[feather13]

Many of us haven't been affected by it. I think that is the prob. It's a good thing we haven't been affected by it, but it changes nothing sadly. Many of us still do not know anybody that has had it, or died from it, and we have been months in a shutdown.
Not saying it would be better if we did, just it's hard to comply with all of it when we still haven't experienced it.

That's great your area hasn't been affected by the virus (although I do know that community members living at Tonawanda in Upstate NY have contracted and died from it). It's rampant where we live. One of my DD's friends, who was 14, contracted and died from it (he was a swimmer with no underlying health issues), parents of two of my close colleagues died from it, and there are so many celebrities (over the weekend reggae superstar Toots Hibbert died of COVID-19-like symptoms) who have died from it.

We live in a working class BIPOC neighborhood and there are several people who have contracted and/or died of it in my immediate area. We've also needed our HVAC system replaced and had a bunch of electrical, landscaping, etc. problems since the virus started and every single person (all of whom are LatinX) has had a close relative die from it. Most of these were cases in older people in multigenerational households who caught the disease from family members (I can't imagine what it would feel like to "cause" a relative's death).

As a single parent with no surviving close relatives who could care for me, I'm terrified of contracting it. When I see people not social distancing and not wearing masks in our area, where there are a lot of cases, it's pretty upsetting because both of those things isn't very difficult and seems like a minor thing to do to protect the health of others.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

**sprays self with bleach then dons tyvek suit first**

This is a difficult time all the way around.

I'm relatively new to my area so don't know a lot of people really really well yet, but my circle of people have lost spouses or loved ones. And I really wish I could hug them in real life.