The Old Folks Home

[Cynthia12]

Surprisingly Maine gets them, too. We had one about a year ago, BF thought it was the washing machine off kilter, I didn't feel or hear a thing, sitting 3 feet next to him.

My parents live in Mineral, Virginia, which had a quake a few years back that caused some damage. They're still rebuilding from that mess, as no one had quake insurance down there. There was a bit of FEMA funds but not enough to repair significantly damaged buildings (mostly brick).

I recommend everyone get quake insurance. Mine's about 3 to 5 bucks a month.

You can believe we have earthquake ins.! We are out here just waiting for the "big one." I can't believe all of the homes, that have been built, right up on the huge fault line that runs all along our mountain range, but people love the idea of being up as high on the side of the mountains as they can get. When you are down in the valley, driving along the freeway, you can actually see the fault line. Crazy that people would build right on it.

 

[chickadoodles]

Hangtown Farms
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when your NPIP how do you get eggs from non NPIP? Can you? do you have to hatch them separately and then test them?
I am curious on the NPIP between the
testing , limitations on getting new blood and , worst part more government control it seems like a huge headache to me. I am trying to sort through it though


I did get some eggs that were not NPIP and I kept the babies quarantined till they were a month old and called my NPIP agent and he came out and tested them for me.
They don't mind as long as you try to keep them separate and only call once or twice a year in between. But if you get the AI testing then they come out every 90 days and test the birds
for free and any new ones you have they will test then also.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

What does the fault line look like?

 

[IttyBiddyRedHen]

You might look at the feasibility of starting from scratch.

Around here, they tear down perfectly good houses just to build another on the same site.
Sounds dumb to me but they claim it's cheaper and faster than rehabbing.

Starting from scratch is not an option. DH is 57, and that age is not prime time to take out a construction loan for a site built house. Especially in this economy. Our property is paid for in full, as it is. It might take less than $10,000.00 to rehab what we have, but we both know a new HVAC system, from scratch, would run about 4K. We have one loan, and that was for the Kubota to help do some digging and drainage on our 1 acre. We are just continuing to look around for homeowners insurance.

We originally were looking at building a home from 2 shipping containers, on a piece of his folks property. But the county would not approve the new driveway approach. New regulations only approve a new drive if there is a 500' clear line of site on both approaches of said new driveway entrance. So, it was not approved. We couldn't even use his parents property for a driveway, as they had already sold theirs to the church next door...payable on death. We were out of luck, and it was back to searching for something affordable and close to his folks. I had also just been laid off from my job. A darn good job too...but we all know how bad things got back in 2009. Now, I stay home and am unemployed. We live only on his income.

 

[IAFarmGirl]

There is always snow on the ground in California! Mt. Shasta has a growing Galcier! I could leave my house in July when it is 110 at my house, drive to the trail at Mt. Shasta and the hike up to the snow.

California is a Magical place.

Ha! Ha! ronott1 you better hope that growing glacier stays on Mt Shasta!

We wouldn't want the silly thing to slide down the mountain this summer!

 

[ronott1]

Ha! Ha! ronott1 you better hope that growing glacier stays on Mt Shasta!

We wouldn't want the silly thing to slide down the mountain this summer!

That would be funny!, as long as it missed the town....

 

[ozexpat]

Oz, I thought you might find some of the info in this PDF valuable.

http://www.be-troplive.be/betroplive/pdf/20121205_944831251_4 brigitte maass.pdf

awesome

thanks

 

[superchemicalgirl]

It just started snowing.

 

[drumstick diva]

guess snow is too smart to fall for reverse psychology

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Wish it was smart enough to only fall where I haven't shoveled.