when you figure that out let us know so we can get onboard to.

And you married for love, not some rich old lady. You could marry more money than you can earn in a lifetime. Of course I screwed up and married for love as well.

She got me pregnant

It was the dress wasn't it?

Likely. We have all seen that purty dress.

Y'all just jealous........

Howdy all.

Hump day again. We did get some rain last night, just over two inches, whoo hooo. Maybe more today.

Talking to a client that is a consultant for cities with flood control was interesting. Evey city has old paper maps that are inherently limited in accuracy. They are old so don't show new development and they were done at a low accuracy to save money. Some cities that had flooding in areas hired accurate serial surveys and the residents were up in arms because their houses were suddenly in the flood plain and their insurance rates went way up. The meant the city needed to spend millions to improve drainage and they don't have the money to pay for that so they just kill the high resolution accurate surveys and go beck to sticking their heads in the sand waiting for the floods that will come. Then they get FEMA to come pay for the damage and get some federal grant money. That is the definition of politics. Kick the problem down the road and let the feds thrown money at it, even if it will cost orders of magnitude more to recover from a disaster, the politicians just call it an act of god.

When I moved into this house the lowest place in my front yard was against a bedroom on the NE corner. The area's topo was such that water runoff from 3 houses west of me would drain to that low spot. If it rained very much the vents in that bedroom would start filling with water. Was told I needed to move all my under slab ducts to the ceiling.

Instead I got my trusty roto-tiller out using it an a wheelbarrow and shovel to regrade the front yard. Made it so the ground sloped away from in front of the house sloping across the yard and out to the street. It was a LOT of dirt as my front yard sloped from my neighbors drive to the west down to the front of my house. My back patio was about 8 inches above grade so I used the dirt to raise the grade all across the back of my house to make the grade flush with the patio.

It took me all summer but rainwater does not pool at the front of my house anymore and the vents stay dry as a bone. The only adverse effect is that if it rains very much my water meter cover gets floated off and the meter itself gets covered with mud.

My property still slopes around the house and down from the back of my house to the stockade fence line. I need to re-grade my back yard because the dirt has migrated enough to cover up to the bottom rail of that stockade fence. A new fence was put in with the bottom at ground level about 10 years ago. Figure if it slopes down from the fence towards the back of the house for about 5 or 6 feet, then starts sloping up it will slow the dirt migration enough that the fence will stay above dirt for quite some time.

That is one thing they did correct at our house. All the yard slopes away for 10' or so in all directions before it levels out. One year we did get water in the basement. It had been a very dry summer and then it rained and rained and all the shrunken, dry soil let water get below the foundation.

We had strange weather yesterday. The sky wasn't all mottled shades of grey and the big yellow orb in the sky would warm you up if you let its light shine on you. Even got the Cobra started in preparation for better days ahead.

The biggest issue most cities face with flooding is large housing editions and shopping centers cover up the ground and cause run-off instead of soaking into the ground. Imagine the difference of open undeveloped ground compared to putting in a big box store and huge parking lot. All that water runs off into the storm drains and they get overwhelmed easily. Every city wants that new big box store but they don't want to pay the money to drain the storm run off to the nearest river. And when the river or creeks gets full of sediment it is expensive to keep it open enough to prevent flooding other areas.

Plan b. No trip to San Fran. Dislocated my knee this morning. Right now I feel no pain. The drugs are good.

Dislocated your knee? Ain't it located right there in the middle of your leg? Likely swelling up to be extra visible?

Ouch, sorry to hear about that. Did you get in a fight with Paul and break his ribs?

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/951160-two-broken-ribs.html

Nope. It stood up the knee cap went one way and fell over.

That sucks. Must be some of the really good stuff they gave you.

Ya gotta come up with a better story. Maybe while carrying the pregnant woman from the burning building. Just standing up and falling over is not a great story.

Depends what was in his system when he stood up.

Maybe the National Anthem suddenly came on and he didn't want to be associated with Kaepernick so he bolted upright and threw the knee out.

Yeah sober attempting to show respect I get screwed. Hydrocodone on an empty stomach.

What you were supposed to do back in the old days when you are watching TV from bed and the TV station went off the air playing the National Anthem and showing a picture of Old Glory waving in the breeze. Were you supposed to stand up or come to attention? And is that the reason why there were so many baby boomers?

Back when we lived in Alabama they had three TV stations and they went off the air at night. One of the couples that lived behind our house were from NYC and the wife worked the 2nd shift at the hospital. She would get off in the middle of the night and turn on TV in NYC and there were lots of stations broadcasting. She was astonished that there was honestly nothing at all on TV. Of course she was used to grocery stopping at 2:00 AM and that was was not gonna happen back then. Heck wit the blue laws no grocery stores and few businesses were open on Sunday.