That 28-105 was one of my favourite lens, until I dropped it in China!
John in Brisbane -----Original Message----- From: PDML <pdml-boun...@pdml.net> On Behalf Of Stan Halpin Sent: Thursday, 28 May 2020 10:11 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> Subject: Re: A River Runs Through And BTW, does anybody need a freshly washed FA PZ 28-105? Maybe a few M series Leica lenses? Sent from my iPad > On May 27, 2020, at 8:08 PM, Stan Halpin <s...@stans-photography.info> wrote: > > Thanks all got your supportive And helpful comments. > A bit of the back story and a brief update. > We live on a river, the Chippewa about .5 miles downriver from the > confluence with the Pine River, about two miles upriver from the confluence > with the Tittibawasee which then joins the Saginaw river and flows into > Saginaw Bay which is an appendage of Lake Huron. Between them, the Pine, > Chippewa, and Tittibawasee drain a very large watershed. Basically flat > country, meandering rivers. We look south over a large bend in the Chippewa, > and about a mile to our north the Tittibawasee roughly parallels the Chippewa > the two getting closer and eventually merging at downtown Midland. > 10-12 days ago ( I am loosing track!) a low pressure system parked over > the region and dumped many inches of rain. The hydro section of our National > Weather Service predicted a rise of the Tittibawasee up to X feet at their > river gauge. From past experience I knew that X height would mean > approximately 26-28 inches of water in our garage, but said garage is 30” > below the level of our single level home, so no big deal. We moved the car > etc from the garage to higher levels according to a long developed and tested > plan. > Then Tuesday a week ago came the big oopsie. The Tittibawasee has several > small dams not too far upriver from town. They hold back enough water to > create recreational lakes but also allow the owner to generate/sell hydro > power. One failed, (predictably given the owners record), the next one > downstream was failing, the predicted crest was now about five feet higher. > Of the roughly 40,000 persons in our town, 10,000 (including us) were issued > immediate evacuation notices. We grabbed a few things and headed for higher > ground 20 miles west. Not too long after that the East-west road behind us > closer to town was closed due to water over the road. Two days later we came > back to our home. The good news was that the second dam partially held, > enough to slow the flow somewhat, and the eventual crest was only a bit over > the historic high, which for us meant only 27 3/8 inches of water in the > house. “ONLY” that much as worst case would have been another 2 feet higher, > or more. > > Enough for today, I’ll continue with update tomorrow... Slowly recovering, it > will be weeks or months. > > Stan > > Sent from my iPad > >> On May 27, 2020, at 10:49 AM, Paul Sorenson <pentax1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> So sorry to hear this, Stan. Hopefully your insurance will come through >> and soon life can return to some normalcy. >> >> With regard to your photos/images in whatever form you can recover them - >> over the years I've lost possession of a multitude of images. The flowers, >> landscapes, etc all invoke memories of good times but they are all pretty >> esoteric and can be replaced with other pretty pictures. Those I regret >> losing the most, and would be the first to be saved during a culling, are >> the people pictures - the ones that would show future generations who we >> were and how we lived. >> >> -p >> >>>> On 5/26/2020 9:33 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: >>> As some of you know, our home was flooded last week, high water at 27 3/8 >>> inches inside. >>> So we have been hauling stuff out, a lot to the curb for trash pickup, much >>> still to be sorted, decisions about what to try to preserve/restore... >>> [Side note. Most of my camera gear was high and dry, my computer also, my >>> five backup external drive all had water inside which I poured out. We’ll >>> find their fate sometime but not now.] >>> >>> So, sitting tonight going over tomorrow’s schedule and priorities. I >>> mention that I want to tackle the 15-20 binders that hold my sleeved >>> negatives and contact prints and selected proof prints. Meg says: “why? Why >>> keep those? Will you ever use them?” Hmm, well Meg, you have been after me >>> to print a few flower macros and most of my favorites were with the 645. I >>> suppose I could go back to using a 645Z and go off looking for flowers. Meg >>> says: “That would make more sense than trying to recover those thousands of >>> negatives just to find and produce 5 prints.” >>> I think she has a point. Particularly if it turns out that my digital >>> archives are also toast. >>> >>> Starting next Monday a professional cleaning crew of 5-6 persons will >>> spend 3-4 days mitigating the flood damage, sanitizing, and cleaning. >>> Another 2 weeks after that of high powered fans for drying. Meanwhile we’ll >>> be looking for new stove, refrigerator, furnace/boiler, hot water heaters, >>> washer and dryer, bedroom furniture, living room furniture... Assuming that >>> our insurance coverage comes through, by July this will mostly be behind us >>> and I can revisit that thought about a 645Z... >>> Thought for the day: avoid floods. >>> >>> Stan >>> >>> Sent from my >>> >>> >>> >> -- >> Paul Sorenson >> Studio1941 >> >> Sooner or later "different" scares people. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.