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RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 2:36 pm
by Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: witpqs
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: sprior
THE laptop? I thought you scab lifters were rich?
I think you are confusing me with old widda' Smith or perhaps Pocahontas girl or perhaps the new guy with a $10,000 mailbox or perhaps Mr. Chang or perhaps Mr. Chopra with the Bentley that he drives 100 yards to the mailbox.
This window repair and balcony repair and painting thing is costing $4000 a week plus materials so we are living on Kraft macaroni and cheese and martinis at this point.
Four Grand a week? So you adopted them.
Please see above,
Well it's usually four guys not including the contractor and two of them are pretty High skill.
It starts to add up after a while.
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 2:46 pm
by witpqs
OK. So it's a good thing you made us all promise not to tell anyone. You might want to check with the Post Office. If SG Jr gave the ex-boyfriend's forwarding address as "Shallow Grave" or something, then you might have the talk with her about breaking up nicely. And about lawyering-up.
When the historic-site architectural restoration is done, try converting to Zoroastrianism and becoming a fanatic evangelist. They'll clear out pretty fast.
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 2:54 pm
by sprior
July 6th 43
Moulmein!
Ground combat at Moulmein (55,55)
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 136 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 90
Defending force 7832 troops, 138 guns, 84 vehicles, Assault Value = 430
Assaulting units:
2nd RTA/A Division
41st Guard Bn /1
85th JAAF AF Coy
Defending units:
5th Indian Division
11th (East African) Div /1
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 5:59 pm
by Chickenboy
Thank God the Americans took care of the whole thing in the end! [:D]
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 6:44 pm
by Cap Mandrake
One regiment of the Royal Thai army doesn't have a chance of holding Moulmein even if Yul Brenner comes down to take command personally. We can probably attack tomorrow and wreck the entire position near Rangoon.
Et cetera, et cetera
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 1:04 am
by Cap Mandrake
The $10K mailbox.
The first guy with the crazy vietnamese wife chopped down my lantana and planted a few roses...then the real estate company threw the olive branches over the fence and sprayed herbicide on the roses...then the new guy put in an ugly statue [:D]
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 4:20 am
by sprior
Is there a house in there or is just a wood with its own mailbox?
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 11:48 am
by Argos
That's not a wood - its just fuel!
Have a plan and some contingencies and stick to them if the Santa Ana's are going and it starts to get smokey nearby. Don't try and read the manual at the last minute...
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 1:32 pm
by Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: Argos
That's not a wood - its just fuel!
Have a plan and some contingencies and stick to them if the Santa Ana's are going and it starts to get smokey nearby. Don't try and read the manual at the last minute...
Well, that is neighbor's house behind the gates, guard dogs, laser beams and olive trees and cypress. Then my hill is covered in sycamore and Calif. peppers and leaf litter. The house is like a container of Tritium sitting inside something built by Edward Teller. [:D]
My house isn't much better with big oaks and even some 50-60 foot Canary Island Pines reaching over the roof in places.....which is....wait for it.....wood shake. I am sure those pines are like Roman Candles. Just filled up a whole dumpster with branches from the pines and oaks. Thing is I was hoping it would burn down before the balcony was repaired but now I would be ticked off.
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 1:33 pm
by Cap Mandrake
27 SBD's lost on the 5th....uggh. The cupboard is bare.
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 1:48 pm
by Cap Mandrake
*************HQ Thirteenth Air Force, Karenko, Formosa, July 6, 1943(c)***********
CO: ECUADOR!???
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.
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 2:16 pm
by Argos
Okay the plan is 'do not shelter in place and carry lots of good insurance' then...
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 2:22 pm
by witpqs
Bah! In those neighborhoods they pay to have a fire engine and full crew for each house. [:D]
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 2:46 pm
by 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.
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 3:18 pm
by witpqs
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.
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 4:43 pm
by sprior
This isn't your place is it Cap?
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 4:44 pm
by 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" [:)]
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 4:48 pm
by Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: sprior
This isn't your place is it Cap?
Nope. Stupid waste of manpower to have one guy holding the ladder. [:)]
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 4:57 pm
by Cap Mandrake
************With the 41st Guards Bn, Moulmein, Daybreak, July 6, 1943(c)*************
Maj Okigawa: <looks out from his bunker in the early morning light. He sees at least 30 large transports and the massive sihouettes of 3 battleships. Hundreds of enemy infantry are already shore. A single Japan-mens mortar battery engages the landing vessels. Seconds later, half a dozen destroyers begin firing accurately at the battery>
HORY CRAP! ROOK AT-AH GODDAMNED SHIPS! EXECUTE PRAN RONGBOW! SHETAH IN PRACE-AH!
RE: USS Baffins Bridge
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 5:08 pm
by 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 [:-]