I like Biden, but I make it a policy to stay as far away from Presidential
visits as I can.
Clinton visited us after Hurricane Fran, while we (National Guard) were on State
Duty for the clean-up, trying to get the schools ready to re-open. [1]
Cost us half a day because the security perimeter closed off the only road we
could use to get out of the motor pool area, so we couldn't leave to go to work.
Before Clinton, George HW Bush visited Raleigh ... I don't know what for, but
the route his motorcade took blocked off the cul-de-sac where my "office" was
located, and I was stuck for a couple of hours before I could get out to run
service calls.
This was while I worked for the Burglar Alarm company and I only needed to go to
the office to pick up materials. If I'd known about the visit and the schedule
for the motorcade I could have planned my trip to the office accordingly and got
some work done somewhere else so he'd been & gone before I went over to the office.
By the time Obama & Trump visited Raleigh I was retired and could just stay
home.
On 9/5/2021 11:47:53, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
On Tuesday, President Biden will visit Manville, NJ, the town where I grew
up. It has been hit the hardest of any locality in the Northeast by
hurricane Ida.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9M5mz5wQZo&t=36s
There was a lot more rain here this week than we had during Superstorm
Sandy, and the Delaware, Raritan, Passaic, and Millstone Rivers crested a
couple of feet higher than in Sandy or any previous tropical storm. The
flooding inland was much worse, although the lack of high winds meant there
were lower and fewer storm tides, largely sparing the Jersey Shore areas.
Sandy was worse for us because we lost power for 8 days, whereas the lack
of high winds with Ida spared us that (although other areas did lose
power). There were 3 explosions of homes and a restaurant in our area, and
the resulting fires were uncontrolled because the flood waters denied
access to emergency vehicles. There are a number of homeless families in
the three towns surrounding us.
Our home was unscathed, but our next door neighbors had three feet of water
in their basement and suffered thousands of dollars in damages which
insurance will not cover. They are now in a hotel because of the mold and
odor from the basement that permeates the entire building.
Earlier in the week, I was drafting a contract for the sale of a commercial
building in Manville owned by my cousins. Thursday there was three feet of
water in the building, and it was isolated by flood waters for 36 hours.
Yesterday, I helped my cousin and his grandkids tear up the wet carpeting
before it could get moldy, and we turned off the gas and electric to the
HVAC. There is a lot of drywall that is no longer dry and must be
replaced. The transaction is up in the air at this point, in part because
the buyer had a retail store up the street and also suffered substantial
damage.
Our family was extremely lucky, but there is devastation all around us.
Dan Matyola
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[1] The chain-saw massacre. The State of North Carolina bought two tractor
trailer loads of Stihl chain-saws with 24" cutting bars. Passed them out like
parting gifts from the Oprah show ...
"You get a chain-saw, you get a chain-saw too ... and YOU get a chain-saw ...
EVERYBODY gets a chain-saw!"
Those of us with prior experience USING a chain-saw got to "train" the rest of
the soldiers in basic chain-saw SAFETY.
In my battalion, that was the Colonel and me. Fortunately there were no serious
injuries.
That was 25 years ago and I *STILL* (or maybe Stihl) have nightmares.
The state did NOT get all of those chain-saws back. I ran across two of them
investigating a shipping container fire while I was in Iraq in 2004.
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