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

[FortCluck]

I'm so sorry!

I will be fine... I am over it now. I am watching my favorite plant based person on YouTube she always turns my day around even when I am at my worst. The chicks so far seem to be very active and lively. So hoping that something is working. From the herbals in their feed to the medication in their waterer. I attack from all areas even with my own body. I do not just take drugs the dr says to take, I overall change everything from my eating to my overall habits.

Today I am diving into whole foods plant based. This is super HARD, but I know I will feel good overall when I look at myself on vacation and remember what I did to get there.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I thought you may have a Chupacabra problem there! Nope, just a dog.

dead! Here’s some better pictures lol

 

[FortCluck]

Making vegan sloppy joes tonight... I hope it tastes good enough that the family doesn't really notice the difference I want a healthy meal again. Yesterday was amazing for dinner.

 

[electrycmonk]

That has a whole new meaning around here. I have a year 'round creek I have to cross to get off the property and 3 times now, in less than 2 years, we've had 25 year, 50, and 100 year flooding and we have been stranded. The last time for 4 days and neighboring farms had barns and buildings washed completely away.

Ankle deep tranquil babbling creek went to a raging river at 12' deep. My bridge, driveway, and surrounding acres were deep under water. So now, when I hear that phrase, I cringe.

...nothing against you for saying it, the opposite actually...now I truly get it.

I feel for both y'all! Truly. My nurtured knowledge of geology, meteorology, topography, physics, etal have grown into a very humble wisdom of the crust we live on.

Watching the last 25 years of North Texas weather and the surfaces changes to the WX changes have really, taught me to heed the wisdom of "turn around don't drown."

We have a place on Galveston island, we stayed in that 100+ yr old house during Harvey. Thanks to learning how to read radar maps and interpreting the patterns over the decades I could show my Better-half what was happening and then point to the clock and say "that" will be *here* in "x minutes/hrs" and we need to do "y" during that time..... On the preparation to go south to prepare the house for the storm. On the drive down she watched the radar and as those 5hrs past she saw it do what I said. That was just the lessons learned to pay close attention to mother nature. We got to the house after midnight, I hung several 4x8 sheets on the upstairs windows before we both were exhausted ~5:30AM ..... Had some folks show up about 9:30 and helped us finish the rest of the windows "just in time."

The rest of the week we would only go out between the spirals - Thanks entirely to our ability to see the radar data the entire time.

The creeks up here have changed as well.
The snow schedule up here has shifted as well.

The tornado alley has been slowly shifting NNE as well over the last 25yrs too.

The yard has been getting more super saturation rains over the last 10 years too.
The silica sand & minerals in our water well have been more disturbed over the last 4-5 yrs too. Going through filters more often is just a price for living here. My fingers are always crossed for hoping the fracking nearby doesn't contaminate all our water Wells around here. A replacement well is currently a $35-50K investment for the water table we are currently pulling from is the 500'er. If we have to redo then the 1000' tap is our next option- the Ozarks aquafer......

Stranded due to a new "temporary" river. Is never reassuring. Nor is the climate change reality we all are feeling more and more every year.

 

[electrycmonk]

So do I! I do NOT use the phrase lightly. My property backs up to a creek the size of a small river. We're only a 1/4 mile from where it empties into the true river - and it's at the tip-top of the nations largest fresh-water estuary , The Chesapeake Bay. So, I know exactly what I'm talking about when I invoke that particular phrase!
Our back lot floods to within about twenty feet of our largest outbuilding - completely flooding our woods. The water runs VERY swiftly through the trees and beyond, to the point where I've had to pull neighbor kids (dad-blasted city folks!) out when they started to lose footing. The first time it happened, right after we moved in, we watched it sweep our entire woodpile away, a foot at a time. We have since moved the pile ... and nothing else goes back there but the mower and the volleyball net!
One of my kids' favorite pastimes is walking the woods and the creek edge after a storm to see what treasures washed up. They've found some interesting stuff! At the tender age of eight, DS dragged home a foot-long section of antique train rail.. Do you have any idea how much that stuff weighs? He didn't care; he found a piece of rope and dragged that bugger home all by himself. It took him most of the afternoon, but he did it. That kid was - and is - a die hard train buff. Now "of age," he STILL treasures that particular find. He was born with a one-track mind ... and the track has rails on it!

One rail fan to the son of another..... My Uncle was a Breakman for Grand Trunk RXR till he retired a few decades back. I had HO, N & Lionel gauge RxR sets (still have a few remnants)..... We live about a mile from THEE main i-35 rail line northwest side of Denton, TX (for your Google fun) I can tell you when a freight is not "normal" and when Amtrak flys thru....
That's an awesome find he kept too!
Did he figure out what lines likely used that piece of history?

 

[SnapdragonQ]

I feel for both y'all! Truly. My nurtured knowledge of geology, meteorology, topography, physics, etal have grown into a very humble wisdom of the crust we live on.

Watching the last 25 years of North Texas weather and the surfaces changes to the WX changes have really, taught me to heed the wisdom of "turn around don't drown."

We have a place on Galveston island, we stayed in that 100+ yr old house during Harvey. Thanks to learning how to read radar maps and interpreting the patterns over the decades I could show my Better-half what was happening and then point to the clock and say "that" will be *here* in "x minutes/hrs" and we need to do "y" during that time..... On the preparation to go south to prepare the house for the storm. On the drive down she watched the radar and as those 5hrs past she saw it do what I said. That was just the lessons learned to pay close attention to mother nature. We got to the house after midnight, I hung several 4x8 sheets on the upstairs windows before we both were exhausted ~5:30AM ..... Had some folks show up about 9:30 and helped us finish the rest of the windows "just in time."

The rest of the week we would only go out between the spirals - Thanks entirely to our ability to see the radar data the entire time.

The creeks up here have changed as well.
The snow schedule up here has shifted as well.

The tornado alley has been slowly shifting NNE as well over the last 25yrs too.

The yard has been getting more super saturation rains over the last 10 years too.
The silica sand & minerals in our water well have been more disturbed over the last 4-5 yrs too. Going through filters more often is just a price for living here. My fingers are always crossed for hoping the fracking nearby doesn't contaminate all our water Wells around here. A replacement well is currently a $35-50K investment for the water table we are currently pulling from is the 500'er. If we have to redo then the 1000' tap is our next option- the Ozarks aquafer......

Stranded due to a new "temporary" river. Is never reassuring. Nor is the climate change reality we all are feeling more and more every year.

It's happening all over, and I've noticed the shifts too. Especially the last 8 years or so.

Wowsers, that's a hefty new well price tag! I thankfully got out of my old place further north before the fracking really picked up there, but feeling an earthquake, due to fracking, in the upper mid-atlantic was something I never thought I would experience.
When I sold the place it did need a new well, but the price for that was much lower!

Having been through many weather and weather related events I'm never without back up supplies so thankfully when we were flooded in food and typical supplies were not a worry.
The worry was getting to the hospital if need be. My kiddo has extra health issues so being stuck, medically speaking, was very stressful to me.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

, Suppose so far the world has figured it out for millions of years So it will find its way. plus there is sure a lotta abandoned farms on my street that my kids could make themselves into a home. So I won't be to concerned for now, BUT I do appreciate the rational response.
...

Yes, the world has figured it out and likely will figure it out again, but it won't be recognizable to what we know now and likely without us.
There are wide open spaces here and where you live so overpopulation isn't in your face or even comprehendible. However if one lived in or visited places like Mumbai, Bangkok, Mexico City, Dhaka, Lagos, Delhi, Tokyo or any of the other rapidly growing cities, some with a 10% annual growth rate - it would be clear. Who will feed all those people?
There are 33 Megacities in the world. Those are urban areas with over 10 million people. Among the challenges facing those areas are disease control, food production, education, housing, employment, pollution and waste disposal.
India alone has 5 Megacities. Southeast Asia has 3, the US has 2 and Latin America has 6.
Can you say, 'unsustainable'?
https://www.census.gov/popclock/
We are in the midst of the 6th great extinction. Losing species at a rate between 10,000 and 100,000 per year and unlike other great extinctions - this time they are largely due to human activity.

 

[featherhead007]

I feel for both y'all! Truly. My nurtured knowledge of geology, meteorology, topography, physics, etal have grown into a very humble wisdom of the crust we live on.

Watching the last 25 years of North Texas weather and the surfaces changes to the WX changes have really, taught me to heed the wisdom of "turn around don't drown."

We have a place on Galveston island, we stayed in that 100+ yr old house during Harvey. Thanks to learning how to read radar maps and interpreting the patterns over the decades I could show my Better-half what was happening and then point to the clock and say "that" will be *here* in "x minutes/hrs" and we need to do "y" during that time..... On the preparation to go south to prepare the house for the storm. On the drive down she watched the radar and as those 5hrs past she saw it do what I said. That was just the lessons learned to pay close attention to mother nature. We got to the house after midnight, I hung several 4x8 sheets on the upstairs windows before we both were exhausted ~5:30AM ..... Had some folks show up about 9:30 and helped us finish the rest of the windows "just in time."

The rest of the week we would only go out between the spirals - Thanks entirely to our ability to see the radar data the entire time.

The creeks up here have changed as well.
The snow schedule up here has shifted as well.

The tornado alley has been slowly shifting NNE as well over the last 25yrs too.

The yard has been getting more super saturation rains over the last 10 years too.
The silica sand & minerals in our water well have been more disturbed over the last 4-5 yrs too. Going through filters more often is just a price for living here. My fingers are always crossed for hoping the fracking nearby doesn't contaminate all our water Wells around here. A replacement well is currently a $35-50K investment for the water table we are currently pulling from is the 500'er. If we have to redo then the 1000' tap is our next option- the Ozarks aquafer......

Stranded due to a new "temporary" river. Is never reassuring. Nor is the climate change reality we all are feeling more and more every year.

 

[MROO]

Should I laugh at that post, or feel bad for you?

Maybe a little bit of both!

 

[featherhead007]

Maybe a little bit of both!

OK... ......