In the midst of the cleanup, I guess there might be opportunities for some wood from downed trees.
How's your weather treating you?
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Yeah, but I won't bother looking. I've got all the trees I need right here in my own property. Most of the downed trees will probably end up as firewood sold by the contractors doing the work.
I am leary of storm downed trees if broken off. They tend to have cracks that show up after you start the drying process.
What amazes me is the sheer luck those train cars got derailed right at the section of track where those cranes were stationed
When it comes to derailed trains, and more importantly, stopping Amtrak, BNSF spares no expense. Massive fines for even small delays to Amtrak, and that track is a busy one out of the Galesburg yard. Probably 10 trains or more a day travelling that track in each direction. Couldn't guess how many hundreds (thousands?) of tons of cargo is going to be delayed.
The company with the cranes and track repair is on call 24/7/365 to immediately respond to any disturbance to rail traffic. They probably had trucks with equipment on the way within an hour of the derailment. They will be working 24 hours a day until it's open again.
The company with the cranes and track repair is on call 24/7/365 to immediately respond to any disturbance to rail traffic. They probably had trucks with equipment on the way within an hour of the derailment. They will be working 24 hours a day until it's open again.
Just saw a FB post that one main line of the Railroad is now open with the first train going through 17 hours after the derailment. The other line still has the derailed train sitting on it with lots of debris to clean up and track repair ongoing.
Amazing what they can do with enough $$$$$
Amazing what they can do with enough $$$$$
Rain rain go away......
2.75" today, that puts our total at 13.25" in the last 14 days. I think our "abnormally dry" period is over.
Just got back from town and every creek we passed was at its banks or over, every ditch full of water, and water flowing over the road in a couple of places.
2.75" today, that puts our total at 13.25" in the last 14 days. I think our "abnormally dry" period is over.
Just got back from town and every creek we passed was at its banks or over, every ditch full of water, and water flowing over the road in a couple of places.
6.12" of rain overnight. To say our drainages are being taxed is an understatement. We've had an exceptionally wet June
...and we need water so badly!!
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It's been really nice here in Michigan, low to mid 70s, very pleasant. But the heat wave is coming next week, mid to upper 90s, I dont like it that hot.
Red flag warnings every day up here.
Yeah, we've got hell week coming too. Starts Sunday with the 90's and heat indexes 110+.
110 huh? and they say Arizona is hot. We're not that high yet (Tucson), But we will pretty soon. The good side of our high temps is our humidity is pretty low even when we're in the Monsoon season. Yesterday was 104 and today is 102 at 2pm. It's gonna be a nice day. ............ Nubs
It’s hotter than nickel night at a brothel.
We've got lots of moisture in the ground and crops. Will have relative humidities in the 70%+ during the day coupled with 90°+ temps. Brutal to do much outdoors in those conditions, but not unusual for the Midwest. Highest heat index I remember having was in the mid to upper 120's. Spent half an hour working, and the next half hour in air conditioning sucking fluids, then repeat.
As brutal as that is, I'll take that over the hot, dry with high winds that half the country is going to endure. Won't be a question of if wildfires start, but how many and how severe they get.
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Those winds were a lot higher than predicted. It shook the house for four days straight, we're used to that in the spring. Praying for those affected by the fires, and those who are fighting them. Ps, log some ponderosa there's no spotted owls here anyway.
The one close to Rye blew up……I think they have the one closest to us in hand, I hope. Not close as in impacted, just the one close by miles. The 11 fire.
The smoke plume from that fire was insane, I can't believe it burned 20,000 acres in less than a day.