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A sink hole opened up in our main parking lot today. It started as a baseball sized hole to about 24 inches wide by 3 pm, with about 5 ft? Of water rushing underneath. Maintenance called the city to come out. They came and stood around looking at it, along with Maintence and nothing until tomorrow. I suggested to close down parking lot until resolved. Fell on deaf ears. Idiots.

edit: I’ll take a picture tomorrow
 
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Orangeredblooded said:
A sink hole opened up in our main parking lot today. It started as a baseball sized hole to about 24 inches wide by 3 pm, with about 5 ft? Of water rushing underneath. Maintenance called the city to come out. They came and stood around looking at it, along with Maintence and nothing until tomorrow. I suggested to close down parking lot until resolved. Fell on deaf ears. Idiots.
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When they do come to fix it there will be five people watching and one working.
 
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If it takes 3 hours for 3 men to dig a hole, how long would it take for 1 man to dig a half a hole?
 
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Orangeredblooded said:
@VolNExile, I see you somewhat out and about, how are you feeling?
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Hey ORB, still good, although still have the sore throat and swollen lymph nodes in my neck.

It's been 8+ days now. I don't know what this is, but it doesn't seem to be CV. If it is, I'm dealing with it awfully well, and someone needs to drain all my convalescent serum to give to real patients in the hospital.

FWIW (probably not much), I rarely get sick from Things Going Around. I have no idea why this is, but apparently I have a pretty decent immune system, and I'm eternally grateful that this is so.

Anyway, completely happy, except why is it so fawkin' cold? I have gardening to do, but every other night is a frost warning!

And I just got some seriously legit cloth masks with N95 insertable filters. The masks actually cover our faces, including (ahem) DH's nose. (This requirement is not a gimme by any means.) We trialed them at the West Asheville Farmer's Market this afternoon, and they work like a champ. Don't need to keep tugging and twitching and fiddling to keep them from making us crazy.

--it's pretty sad when the most exciting part of your day is trying out new face masks...
 
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VolNExile said:
Hey ORB, still good, although still have the sore throat and swollen lymph nodes in my neck.

It's been 8+ days now. I don't know what this is, but it doesn't seem to be CV. If it is, I'm dealing with it awfully well, and someone needs to drain all my convalescent serum to give to real patients in the hospital.

FWIW (probably not much), I rarely get sick from Things Going Around. I have no idea why this is, but apparently I have a pretty decent immune system, and I'm eternally grateful that this is so.

Anyway, completely happy, except why is it so fawkin' cold? I have gardening to do, but every other night is a frost warning!

And I just got some seriously legit cloth masks with N95 insertable filters. The masks actually cover our faces, including (ahem) DH's nose. (This requirement is not a gimme by any means.) We trialed them at the West Asheville Farmer's Market this afternoon, and they work like a champ. Don't need to keep tugging and twitching and fiddling to keep them from making us crazy.

--it's pretty sad when the most exciting part of your day is trying out new face masks...
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One at a time, not seasonal allergies?
I’m dying to get out and dig in the dirt. I finally got the green light to put in a garden at the BF. Keep an eye on the walnut trees (if you have one close), they will tell you.
And don’t even go There with our (ahem) better halve’s noses, can’t get this one over here to even take one out for a spin.
 
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Orangeredblooded said:
A sink hole opened up in our main parking lot today. It started as a baseball sized hole to about 24 inches wide by 3 pm, with about 5 ft? Of water rushing underneath. Maintenance called the city to come out. They came and stood around looking at it, along with Maintence and nothing until tomorrow. I suggested to close down parking lot until resolved. Fell on deaf ears. Idiots.

edit: I’ll take a picture tomorrow
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Joe will be fishing that hole for sure.
 
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VolNExile said:
Have you ridden along with The Offspring on Poplar Ave at 5:15 or so?

I'm pretty sure that if I had been living in Mempho when I turned 16, I would have never gotten a driver's license.

Honolulu was bad enough. (at 15)
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I used to bike on Poplar in the late 80s and early 90s when there were probably about 18 bicyclists in all of Memphis. Talk about scary. I would ride Walnut Grove out to Shelby Farms as well, also not very smart.
 
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NorCalVol67 said:
I used to bike on Poplar in the late 80s and early 90s when there were probably about 18 bicyclists in all of Memphis. Talk about scary. I would ride Walnut Grove out to Shelby Farms as well, also not very smart.
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You should've ridden Shady Grove. :cool: Pretty calm compared to the real streets.

I found out last week that the buyers had to tear down her house. They tried, but they couldn't get it to meet earthquake code, etc. Another mid-century modern landmark gone. Built by a contractor who had originally built another home on Cherry Road by this plan and liked it enough to copy it. :( RIP 4837 Shady Grove Road.

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VolNExile said:
You should've ridden Shady Grove. :cool: Pretty calm compared to the real streets.

I found out last week that the buyers had to tear down her house. They tried, but they couldn't get it to meet earthquake code, etc. Another mid-century modern landmark gone. Built by a contractor who had originally built another home on Cherry Road by this plan and liked it enough to copy it. :( RIP 4837 Shady Grove Road.

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I would bike on Shady Grove as well. Drove that street many times, it was a great area.

You know Charlie Rich lived on Cherry Road.
 
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NorCalVol67 said:
I used to bike on Poplar in the late 80s and early 90s when there were probably about 18 bicyclists in all of Memphis. Talk about scary. I would ride Walnut Grove out to Shelby Farms as well, also not very smart.
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by "bike" u mean your servants pulled u around in a rickshaw?
 
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It was a music-rich area! Charlie Rich, Isaac Hayes, Sam Phillips.

I don't ever expect to live in Memphis again (too many ties here), but original East Memphis (between Walnut Grove to the north, Poplar to the south, Perkins to the west, and Mendenhall to the east) is pretty hard to beat in terms in (1) living in a real neighborhood, not some fussy HOA-ridden McMansion Land and (2) close to stuff that you actually might want to go to.
 
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