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RE: USS Baffins Bridge - 3/10/2014 4:48:09 PM   
Cap Mandrake


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Man in fine linen slacks: Yes, sir! I can have 25 low mileage SBD-5's here within 2 weeks if you purchase the "urgent option"


CO: How much more for the "urgent option"?


Man in fine linen slacks: 25%...but I'll throw in a free repaint of roundels and we have a fine selection of pinstripe options.



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RE: USS Baffins Bridge - 3/10/2014 5:16:40 PM   
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RE: USS Baffins Bridge - 3/10/2014 5:22:27 PM   
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RE: USS Baffins Bridge - 3/10/2014 5:46:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		Actually insurance companies do that if they have a chance (pay is great, better than $3500 a day for an engine and crew of 3 and no other responsibility - plus homeowners tend to cook when the get nervous so you eat well...) trouble is they need a day or two to make arrangements to get trucks in, equipment and personnel have to be available (nothing else burning in the Western US), and it still has to be safe to put a truck there. Some of those houses you could build into a 1,000,000 gallon water tank and that's the only way you could keep them from burning.

The fires in that fuel type (SoCal , Australia, Greece) aren't fight-able when they get running, you end up just trying to manage them until conditions change. Fire back in 2003 in SoCal and the IC tried to use an 8 lane Interstate and better than 1000 pieces of apparatus as a holding line. Didn't even slow it down, ended up 1/2 mile past into the housing developments. Some of the film we see from SoCal in training is unbelievable but does a great job of emphasizing that sometimes you have to just try to get everybody out of the way.

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RE: USS Baffins Bridge - 3/10/2014 6:18:17 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Argos

Actually insurance companies do that if they have a chance (pay is great, better than $3500 a day for an engine and crew of 3 and no other responsibility - plus homeowners tend to cook when the get nervous so you eat well...) trouble is they need a day or two to make arrangements to get trucks in, equipment and personnel have to be available (nothing else burning in the Western US), and it still has to be safe to put a truck there. Some of those houses you could build into a 1,000,000 gallon water tank and that's the only way you could keep them from burning.

The fires in that fuel type (SoCal , Australia, Greece) aren't fight-able when they get running, you end up just trying to manage them until conditions change. Fire back in 2003 in SoCal and the IC tried to use an 8 lane Interstate and better than 1000 pieces of apparatus as a holding line. Didn't even slow it down, ended up 1/2 mile past into the housing developments. Some of the film we see from SoCal in training is unbelievable but does a great job of emphasizing that sometimes you have to just try to get everybody out of the way.

Lived in SoCal for 9 years, not too far from our fearless author. The back fence was about 20 ft behind the deck, with a tree in between. The small slope behind the fence was ours, probably 30 to 40 ft before a drop off. I had that slope planted with some native fire resistant stuff in an effort to hold the slope (landslides!) while not providing fuel.

We moved less than 48 hours before that fire started in November 2008. Basically a car broke down and caught fire a few miles to the east on the 91 Freeway. The Santa Ana winds had started coming up the day we left and were very strong plus gusting above 70 mph by then - it's the Santa Ana Canyon and winds from that direction are funneled down, which speeds them up and heats them up. Some grass or brush near the burning car caught fire, and the whole thing sort of ran down the canyon like a blowtorch. Several hundred homes and a couple of apartment complexes were lost, including a home a few doors down from where we had lived. I was later told that the fire burned right up to the back deck of our old house and they stopped it there.

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RE: USS Baffins Bridge - 3/10/2014 7:43:47 PM   
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RE: USS Baffins Bridge - 3/10/2014 7:44:55 PM   
Cap Mandrake


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Status: offline 		We actually have to pay a "Wildfire Management Fee" (or something of the sort..about $150 2 x/year). It's actually a tax but the lads in Sacramento imagine we won't figure it out if they call it a "fee".

This is in addition to an ungodly real estate tax and a spectacular amount of money the HOA pays the county every year to staff a station right in the development.

Generally, these kind of things make me angry but one time about 10 years ago a fire burned right up to the ridgeline aboout 400 yds away. I was out loading stuff into my truck and an absolutely massive 4 engine seaplane flew 200 ft over my house and scored a direct hit on the ridgeline with retardant. You could feel the engines and props in your chest. I was seriously impressed.

I thought to myself, "Well there went my property taxes for last year"

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RE: USS Baffins Bridge - 3/10/2014 7:48:03 PM   
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ORIGINAL: sprior

This isn't your place is it Cap?







Nope. Stupid waste of manpower to have one guy holding the ladder.

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RE: USS Baffins Bridge - 3/10/2014 7:57:05 PM   
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HORY CRAP! ROOK AT-AH GODDAMNED SHIPS! EXECUTE PRAN RONGBOW! SHETAH IN PRACE-AH!

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RE: USS Baffins Bridge - 3/10/2014 8:08:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		OK, I just bought a pound of what I think is coffee from some cheerleader types on a fund raiser.  Reciept is from M & M Enterprises.  I think Cap here is starting to go all commercial on us


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RE: USS Baffins Bridge - 3/10/2014 10:04:11 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

quote:

ORIGINAL: sprior

This isn't your place is it Cap?







Nope. Stupid waste of manpower to have one guy holding the ladder.


I suppose using two lengths of rope, one to tie off the ladder to each of the two balconies, would make too much sense because it would allow the second guy to do something productive and be safer for the guy on the ladder.

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RE: USS Baffins Bridge - 3/10/2014 11:17:41 PM   
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ORIGINAL: witpqs

We moved less than 48 hours before that fire started in November 2008. Basically a car broke down and caught fire a few miles to the east on the 91 Freeway. The Santa Ana winds had started coming up the day we left and were very strong plus gusting above 70 mph by then - it's the Santa Ana Canyon and winds from that direction are funneled down, which speeds them up and heats them up. Some grass or brush near the burning car caught fire, and the whole thing sort of ran down the canyon like a blowtorch. Several hundred homes and a couple of apartment complexes were lost, including a home a few doors down from where we had lived. I was later told that the fire burned right up to the back deck of our old house and they stopped it there.


Did you get your car repaired in a timely fashion, my Argletonian colleague?

Scorched Earth policy indeed! Why couldn't you just shake the dust from your sandals or something like that next time?

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RE: USS Baffins Bridge - 3/10/2014 11:21:49 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Lecivius

OK, I just bought a pound of what I think is coffee from some cheerleader types on a fund raiser.  Reciept is from M & M Enterprises.  I think Cap here is starting to go all commercial on us


1. Was it a pound, or a reduced size package (ala Starbucks)-in reality 10-12 oz.?
2. Was it, in fact, coffee?
3. Did the per unit cost work out to $70/pound?
4. Were the cheerleader types sporting distractingly large breatesses so that you wouldn't hector them with these questions?

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RE: USS Baffins Bridge - 3/11/2014 3:49:29 PM   
Argos

 

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Status: offline 		Its quite an experience to be in the drop zone, with the added thrill of ending up with the world's worst fake tan color that doesn't wash out easily, it kind of wears off once it drys. Going rate on those retardant drops is something like $5k a load depending on plane/volume. Used correctly, with good pilots, air assets are exceedingly effective in the correct fuels.


quote:

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

We actually have to pay a "Wildfire Management Fee" (or something of the sort..about $150 2 x/year). It's actually a tax but the lads in Sacramento imagine we won't figure it out if they call it a "fee".

This is in addition to an ungodly real estate tax and a spectacular amount of money the HOA pays the county every year to staff a station right in the development.

Generally, these kind of things make me angry but one time about 10 years ago a fire burned right up to the ridgeline aboout 400 yds away. I was out loading stuff into my truck and an absolutely massive 4 engine seaplane flew 200 ft over my house and scored a direct hit on the ridgeline with retardant. You could feel the engines and props in your chest. I was seriously impressed.

I thought to myself, "Well there went my property taxes for last year"

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RE: USS Baffins Bridge - 3/11/2014 9:54:14 PM   
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Radar guy named "Sparks" in Malay: Sir, the unidentified aircraft over the Gulf of Thailand has just turned around and is headed SW.

OOD: <he sports a quizical look for a number of seconds and then his eyes grow wide> Oh my God! It's the Mersing Gambit!

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RE: USS Baffins Bridge - 3/11/2014 10:18:23 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

***************Malaysian Air Force Station, Johore Bahru, May 7, 2014(a)*************


Radar guy named "Sparks" in Malay: Sir, the unidentified aircraft over the Gulf of Thailand has just turned around and is headed SW.

OOD: <he sports a quizical look for a number of seconds and then his eyes grow wide> Oh my God! It's the Mersing Gambit!
You should be able to get defenders there in time to resist the invasion. Almost two months, but that may not be enough time to build very effective fortifications.


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RE: USS Baffins Bridge - 3/12/2014 3:29:25 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

***************Malaysian Air Force Station, Johore Bahru, May 7, 2014(a)*************


Radar guy named "Sparks" in Malay: Sir, the unidentified aircraft over the Gulf of Thailand has just turned around and is headed SW.

OOD: <he sports a quizical look for a number of seconds and then his eyes grow wide> Oh my God! It's the Mersing Gambit!



Noting the May 7th 2014 date;
I could only think of the movie scene in "Search for Red October" at the end of the movie where the Sec. of State is sitting behind his desk, takes off his glasses and looks at the Russkie and says "You mean to tell me you lost another submarine?"

Since we know that M & M Enterprises is alive and well in this day and age, what is a slightly used 777-200 going for? $50 million?



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RE: USS Baffins Bridge - 3/12/2014 6:03:28 PM   
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RE: USS Baffins Bridge - 3/12/2014 6:17:33 PM   
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Crack Kills!

Good news is in the case of a plumbing emergency at the tournament they had it covered.


I think Admirar Rord Nerson is attending the Havasupai Spring Fertility and ****ly Pear Festival....or maybe South by Southwest.

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RE: USS Baffins Bridge - 3/12/2014 6:18:24 PM   
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Magic, the Butt-crack http://www.buzzfeed.com/mrloganrhoades/man-goes-to-magic-the-gathering-tournament-poses-next-to-but

"expertly"

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RE: USS Baffins Bridge - 3/12/2014 6:50:35 PM   
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RE: USS Baffins Bridge - 3/12/2014 7:23:24 PM   
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RE: USS Baffins Bridge - 3/12/2014 7:59:15 PM   
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RE: USS Baffins Bridge - 3/12/2014 9:17:09 PM   
sprior


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"Well it got me to the 'International Sarcasm' finals in Santiago, Chile in 2009." I informed him.

"Really?" he asked.

"No." I said.

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RE: USS Baffins Bridge - 3/13/2014 12:03:40 AM   
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RE: USS Baffins Bridge - 3/13/2014 4:10:38 PM   
Cap Mandrake


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RE: USS Baffins Bridge - 3/13/2014 4:12:06 PM   
Cap Mandrake


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RE: USS Baffins Bridge - 3/13/2014 4:14:08 PM   
Cap Mandrake


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Status: offline 		I think Baffins Bridge arrives in Panama today. I can hardly wait to see her. I'll post a pic as soon as I get home.

Wait...that doesn't sound right. I'll post a pic of the Baffins Bridge in Panama when I get home.

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RE: USS Baffins Bridge - 3/13/2014 6:01:42 PM   
Argos

 

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RE: USS Baffins Bridge - 3/13/2014 6:39:04 PM   
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