[TheForge] Is anyone on-line ? OT: Washed away?

[Dave Mudge]

Watch your language please.
dave m
list mom for The Forge

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer
<artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:
>
> My last place fell into the Pacific and i still morn it. Living there was
> wonderful for the likes of me, as long as it lasted.
> If i'd owned it, i would have built a structure that might  well have
> outlived me.
> This place will fall to the ocean as well..I'm betting geological time
> against grey hairs.
> The enhanced quality of life i enjoy  by the ocean, makes that decision
> for me.
> Andy can live wherever the fuck he wants (and will tolerate him)..free
> country ( sorta).
> To me, the mistake is failing to build a structure that will weather the
> weather.
>
> On Nov 5, 2012, at 4:00 PM, Craig Schaefer wrote:
>
> How long have you lived down a dirt road in Appalachia?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Vida" <osan at netlabs.net>
> To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 3:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Is anyone on-line ? OT:
>
>
> > I would say the better solution is to remove one's head from the anus
> > and not live in such places.  The Passaic River used to flood every year
> > and thousands of homes would be seriously damaged, over and over again.
> > One would think that a light would go on after about the fifth time
> > one's house was destroyed and the flood premiums rose into hefty five
> > figures.  But no.  "We'll rebuild and next time our house is destroyed
> > we will whine about it yet again."
> >
> > What a world. :)
> >
> > On 11/5/2012 1:33 PM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:
> >> Confess to designing inundation resistant buildings in my mind..triple
> >> O
> >> ring seals on every door, built in back up generators and H2o storage,
> >> very heavy tempered glass..etc.
> >>
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