The Old Folks Home

[Bunnylady]

Her son needs to first contact the HOA and second the BBA, finally the police. Totally unacceptable behavior.

In that list, you forgot the local news stations. I've seen a picture of the pile of debris; it's a great visual. Little old lady being bullied by big, burly guys with trucks and chainsaws makes a change from water-soaked and stinky. And as someone commented about price gouging during the aftermath of a previous storm, "you will still need to do business after things return to normal around here, and we will remember."

 

[CapricornFarm]

I know ya'll are smart folks, but for anyone in the market for a used vehicle any time soon, two words - flood cars. They'll be around; maybe a long ways away from here.

While on the subject of despicable people . . . .

Situation: 90-some-year-old lady that my husband knows and her son evacuated for Florence (not sure to where, it's not important). They just got back, hadn't even had time to unload the car, and these guys from a tree company are in their faces, demanding money. She'd had a tree go down on her property, and apparently the HOA had gotten these guys to remove it. They insisted that they had to be paid now, but finally left when the son informed them he didn't even have any checks at the house; they could just send a bill, and get paid in due course. This morning, the old lady woke up to find that someone had dumped a large truckful of pine tree debris across her driveway. I know they always warn about the fly-by-night shysters that descend after any disaster, but these guys are supposed to be a local company!

What jerks!

 

[microchick]

We get the daily 'space weather' forecast which deals with solar flare propagation in regards to how the sun is affecting radio signals. The lower the sun spot activity, the crappier radio signals are.

We got this report today which has to do with how solar activity is set to affect the upcoming winter.

http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=28&month=09&year=2018

This corresponds with the forecast that The Farmer's Almanac is predicting but being based on the Saber Instrument Package aboard a NASA TIMED satellite.

Bundle up every one and stock up on firewood!

 

[CapricornFarm]

We get the daily 'space weather' forecast which deals with solar flare propagation in regards to how the sun is affecting radio signals. The lower the sun spot activity, the crappier radio signals are.

We got this report today which has to do with how solar activity is set to affect the upcoming winter.

http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=28&month=09&year=2018

This corresponds with the forecast that The Farmer's Almanac is predicting but being based on the Saber Instrument Package aboard a NASA TIMED satellite.

Bundle up every one and stock up on firewood!

Thanks for the heads up! I always find that stuff interesting.

 

[CapricornFarm]

On the banks of the river today.

The paw paws are ripe, i picked some while driving on the mule today. No need to even get out.

 

[sourland]

@Bunnylady, I agree a letter to the editor of the local paper with a picture of the lady (looking particularly vulnerable) crying over the pile of debris.

 

[1muttsfan]

Yep.

I have been fortunate that way loosing my folks my step Dad Wayne had a few weeks of only talking to me as Ma was out to get him Ma her dementia was due to septic blood according to the Dr
she passed 4 months later

After my mom had her first surgery, they gave her Dilaudid at the hospital and it made her act nuts just like that. I had to go into the hospital several times during the night because she thought the nurses were trying to kill her. She also said that we were not in a real hospital, that it was a fake hospital room. When I tried to reassure her, she looked at me and said "I don't know how they got to you".
My far distant and not very helpful sister said she usually just agreed with mom when she said weird stuff. So I asked her if when Mom said the nurses were trying to kill her I should just agree with her? Duh.
Fortunately after 3 or 4 days the effects wore off. It was really horrible though.

One time they .... Pulled a mummified rat out of mine.... must have died stayed put till mummified then fell into the fan one day.... Mummified rat smells quite a bit like burned wiring....

deb

 

[pennyJo1960]

Her pain had to be horrible to use Dilaudid right up there with Morphine

 

[Bunnylady]

@Bunnylady, I agree a letter to the editor of the local paper with a picture of the lady (looking particularly vulnerable) crying over the pile of debris.

Or just standing there, looking helpless, dwarfed by it. This pile is HUGE; it goes from the grass on one side of her driveway onto the grass on the other. If there are any cars in the garage, they are stuck there until the pile is moved. I daresay it is a good bit taller than she is, too.

The tree she lost was an oak; it's possible that mass-wise, the load that was dumped may be about equivalent to what they hauled off. I don't think anyone is disputing that they are owed something for their work, but this sort of behavior is unconscionable!

 

[microchick]

I agree. Call the local news stations, if you have to call the nationals. Make em squeal like the dirty pigs they are. Sorry but I am rabidly protective of the elderly!