Andy, tried to vote today, and couldn't does that mean the competition is finished? There was no button for vote now anymore!

Yeah

Thanks, Rick. Not really, it's kind of for me. Selfish reasons, to bring me some sort of peace. Watching this stuff is just heart wrenching for me and to not be able to do anything is worse.
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By the way, Glen, your fountain area is beautiful. I love it. Can't wait to see it when the plants are grown in. What a lucky woman your wife is to have a husband to do that for her.

They rescued lots of people from storm shelters and safe rooms. The fire department has the shelters registered. They know to go dig a collapsed house off of the shelter.

Chilling video of one of the teachers trapped....

Injured third-grade teacher tells of trying to protect students - CBS News

I got some new power tools tonight. Rick, are little electric impacts useful for working on a car, or do you stick with doing it with manual tools? I prefer to tighten stuff down by hand, but that can take a long time. The 1/2" air powered impact I have I prefer to not even use to loosen stuff unless I have no other option. The screw gun is gonna be usefull on cheap stuff made from soft metal, but I don't encounter that on the '944. The 1/4" electric impact might be useful in places it fits. Just get an adapter for bigger stuff, and because of its low torque, I can run bolts/nuts in without smashing stuff.

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Morning Y'all.
As with all tools they have a place, and weather or not that place is in your hands depends mostly on you.
I have some cordless impact stuff that I keep here at the house, but they just don't hold up well enough to use at work.

Got in a drug testing program for my eyes thru my eye doc. They are testng some drugs to see if the drugs keep diabetics from eventually going blind. Free drugs (injection in the eye) AND I get paid $50 a month to be in the program. Won't know about the preventative effectiveness for some time, but the first injection in each eye improved my eyesight from 20/75 to 20/25!

Also foot doc says only one more week of keeping the foot elevated !!!

Kimray, the company I work for, sent 30 people to help the victims. Several backhoes and front end loaders to help move debris to dig people out of their shelters and some truck and trailers to haul the dead animals away. Not just pets, a horse ranch got hit also. They are also providing and collecting funds to help the 17 employees that lived in the area to relocate and/or rebuild.

Don't worry about not being able to volunteer. They say they have plenty and what they need is donations for food/water/clothes etc. A local Thunder basketball team star donated one million.

Friend lives about a mile north of the area lost water and power. Electricity came back on late yesterday evening, but still no water.

Morning Everyone.

Azz, voting part is now over and we were in first. There is now a judging round for the top 20 and I will know June 10th of the final results. Fingers crossed and thanks for the votes.

Our pilot's son lives on the very edge of the destruction. They were in the shelter and heard the tornado come and go. When they came up they only damage was to the stockade fence. Their neighbors house had some shingle damage. The next house closer had the roof blown off. The next house had more damage and the next few houses were just a concrete slab with debris the remains of the house in the back yard. He is a trained EMT so he went back home and got his gear and uniform and went into the devastation. He had no official reason to be there but he was just there to help. He said it was strange to have cops and other rescue workers come to him and ask questions.

He said it was about an hour before someone arrived and took charge. He was happy to help all he could but they sent him home after the main forces showed up. When he got back to his house they drove to his mother's house just a few miles away. It is normally a 5 minute trip. It took them 2.5 hours to get to her house.

They are very lucky to have almost no damage and still have a car.

Just yesterday I needed to run home to get something. I can't even imagine what it would feel like to remember that not only is you car destroyed you don't have a house to run home to, and everything you owned is destroyed.

Some of the folks are in that situation and injured or in the hospital to boot.

Good hump day folks.

Oh, and thanks Aussies for letting Marcos Ambrose come race NASCAR in America. Had a blast with him and his team last night. ^^

This used to bother me a lot more in my teens. There is only a handful of stuff I really care about these days. I've lost soo much data from multiple computer/hardrive failure that I've gotten used to seeing my stuff just vanish. Doesn't matter if I had it backed up at multiple locations, all down at once... :confused:

I also grew up poor on the road, so home for me doesn't have to be much. Its the people that matter.

Even today, I often keep a blanket in the car as I may not come home at all.

Morning all.

You need a better data archive system ;)

I have had a few hard drive failures. Just one many years ago took data. One of the many things that is sad about today's technology is photos. I have hundreds and hundreds of OLD family photos. Some are over 100 years old. How many of the photos you have now will ever be seen by your descendants? And don't think printing a digital image on you home inject printer will help. Those will fade away in a decade.

Oh my gosh, the thread was on page TWO!

I just got a call from a frantic customer. They were wanting know if we had a job finished for them. I looked it up. It was done and mailed and paid for over a month ago. Now they can't find it and it is our problem?

I have lost things in the past that can not be replaced, and I find that it easiest to let people go than things I have struggled to get.
I am rapidly becoming not a fan of the human race. There is only one person in this entire world who has not stomped me in some shape or form and she passed about five years ago. That was my step mom, every other person on this planet I can walk away from and never look back.
There are too many deep wounds.

I just received the parts I ordered to execute 2nd bathroom tub/shower plumbing repair Plan C. They look like they will work (knock on wood). Builder grade fixtures from manufacturers that like to obsolete parts with no suitable substitute parts sucks. IMO, Price Pfister is a brand to avoid.

Off Friday - Monday. So, one more w*** day to go! :)

My contractor I hired to finish the structural part of my bathroom just put me back another week,