Here, have a distraction: 1992 or 1993. My hair was enormous.
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1992 or 1993. My hair was enormous.
Um... wow!
And for extra dork points: that was taken after the evening's live-action vampire role-playing game.
Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiig hair! BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG!
Paul wants to look at Outbacks. Man, that's a pricy car.
I don't know how much cheaper the Foresters are, Plei, but I am among several happy Forester owners on the board.
Wow, lookit that hair, Jilli!
I love my Outback Sport, but it doesn't get great mileage.
Magnificent, Jilli.
Maria, I'd like to echo what Erin (I think it was Erin) said about PPE when doing flood cleanup. Make sure you wear a mask that can handle mold.
That's all I got. ~ma to them as needs it, how they needs it. Office is a ghost town and I'm barely awake.
To be fair, at Brown's Ferry they were checking for air leaks using smoke from a candle, which was an accepted technique. They screwed up badly, but the candle was only part of the problem.
The 2003 blackout, which affected some 50 million people, was the result of one failed transmission line and both human and computer error in monitoring the grid in FirstEnergy's control room.
The electricity grid is a patchwork of lines built by hundreds of companies over a century, carrying more power longer distances than it was ever intended to. There's a lot of work being done on a smart grid, but to be really effective, the whole damn country needs rewired.
I just find it ... ironic ... that a high-tech nuclear power plant should be set on fire by a workman with a candle. (If Homer Simpson were responsible, there would have been donuts involved.)
The water system has similar issues. Lots of cities are past 100 years old on large sections of the water and sewer lines, and even cast iron doesn't last forever.