Re: [MBZ] Global cooling

2015-10-05 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Cc: Andrew Strasfogel <astrasfo...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, October 5, 2015 1:35 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Global cooling If you DID have a basement that stayed dry, I would be madly envious. On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Rich T

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2015-10-05 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
.@yahoo.com> Sent: Monday, October 05, 2015 1:39 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Global cooling Best way to do a basement there would be to get a pre-cast septic tank (new obviously) with a big door in the top. Coat it with something, like a rubberized something, then wrap it in sheet plastic gluin

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2015-10-05 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
. Pretty sure I never want that to happen to anything I own... > -Curt > > > From: WILTON <wilt...@nc.rr.com> > To: Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com>; Mercedes Discussion List > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Sent: Monday, October 5, 2015 3:00 PM > Su

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2015-10-05 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
om> >> To: Rich Thomas <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> >> Cc: Andrew Strasfogel <astrasfo...@gmail.com>; Mercedes Discussion List < >> mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> Sent: Monday, October 5, 2015 10:51 AM >> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Global cool

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2015-10-05 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
gt; Sent: Monday, October 5, 2015 3:00 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Global cooling Yep, 'was about to comment 'bout the house popping outa the ground. Wilton - Original Message - From: "Curt Raymond via Mercedes" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> To: "Mercedes Discussion

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2015-10-05 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
I heard from a colleague about a contractor who built a house with a basement here in the low country, it is his personal residence. He poured the concrete basement (one layer of concrete), then built a suspended form inside that basement to pour another basement; so he had a double layer

Re: [MBZ] Global cooling

2015-10-05 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
It is claimed that one could have a basement here in FL, but I would be darned sure I had a very reliable power and pump source for the sump. Dan Sent from my iPad > On Oct 5, 2015, at 2:54 PM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes > wrote: > > I heard from a colleague about a

Re: [MBZ] Global cooling

2015-10-05 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Just out of curiosity - how did you keep your basement dry? On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 10:54 PM, Rich Thomas < richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wrote: > No damage here just 16-20" rain at our coordinates. Crazy. Roads closed > and flooded everywhere though, not sure if we can even get off the

Re: [MBZ] Global cooling

2015-10-05 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
October 5, 2015 10:51 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Global cooling Just out of curiosity - how did you keep your basement dry? On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 10:54 PM, Rich Thomas < richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wrote: > No damage here just 16-20" rain at our coordinates. Crazy. Roads

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2015-10-05 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Strasfogel via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> To: Rich Thomas <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> Cc: Andrew Strasfogel <astrasfo...@gmail.com>; Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Monday, October 5, 2015 10:51 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Glob

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2015-10-04 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Did you sustain any damage, Rich? On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > No wind to speak of just rain. Trees falling have knocked out power in > various places, ground is so saturated they just pull up roots and fall > over. > > --R > > > >

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2015-10-04 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
No damage here just 16-20" rain at our coordinates. Crazy. Roads closed and flooded everywhere though, not sure if we can even get off the island right now. Not sure where we would go if we could. It's getting bad midstate now too, flooding very bad up there. --R (sent from my miniPad) On

Re: [MBZ] Global cooling

2015-10-04 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
> On October 4, 2015 at 12:01 AM Curly McLain via Mercedes > wrote: > > > >Only 1.5" through today. Bulk of the rain stayed south of D.C. > > Obviously enough to shut down goobermnt computers. I thought it was 1.5" of snow shut down goobermint commuters. Mitch

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2015-10-04 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
edes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Cc: "Curly McLain" <126die...@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2015 12:03 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Global cooling Glad to hear y'all are hale and hearty! Those gators make good eatin and nice boots fer ya and purses fer SWMBO.

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2015-10-04 Thread Curly McLain via Mercedes
Glad to hear y'all are hale and hearty! Those gators make good eatin and nice boots fer ya and purses fer SWMBO. 18.25" rain recorded down the road at the exclusive gated resort community of Kiawah, their road was under water last night and their gate was under water too, I guess the moat

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2015-10-04 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
18.25" rain recorded down the road at the exclusive gated resort community of Kiawah, their road was under water last night and their gate was under water too, I guess the moat got a little too full. Our manse remains above water but yesterday's high tide had the marsh flooded higher than I

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2015-10-04 Thread archer75--- via Mercedes
On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 11:32:26 -0400 Rich Thomas via Mercedes wrote: > 18.25" rain recorded down the road at the exclusive gated resort > community of Kiawah, their road was under water last night and their > gate was under water too, I guess the moat got a little too full.

Re: [MBZ] Global cooling

2015-10-04 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Boone Hall recorded 24" rainfall as of this morning since Friday, looks like it has been raining in your (and that) area most of the day. Just started here again, hard, and the tide is the highest I have seen it on the estancia, even higher than yesterday. I just got back from the store, the

Re: [MBZ] Global cooling

2015-10-04 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
> On October 4, 2015 at 1:48 PM WILTON via Mercedes > wrote: > > > Anybody know good leather repair shop for such repairs, in case Coach can't, > or won't, handle it? The local shoe repair guy does everything from resoling shoes to replacing zippers in coats, I bet he

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2015-10-04 Thread Max Dillon via Mercedes
Glad to hear you survived. We did have just a couple flickers of the lights, but SWMBO didn't notice, nothing that would make the news. Drove around Mt Pleasant a bit this p.m., saw a few houses in low areas that had water at the foundation but nothing inside the first floor. Big local

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2015-10-04 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
No wind to speak of just rain. Trees falling have knocked out power in various places, ground is so saturated they just pull up roots and fall over. --R On 10/4/15 11:51 AM, archer75--- via Mercedes wrote: That would have really been bad if the hurricane had come up the coast. Surprising

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2015-10-04 Thread Max Dillon via Mercedes
Aye, if Coach can't handle it, look for a shoe repair shop, they've got the heavy duty sewing machines to handle leather. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300 On October 4, 2015 1:54:32 PM EDT, Mitch Haley via Mercedes wrote: > > >> On October 4, 2015 at 1:48

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2015-10-04 Thread wiltonw--- via Mercedes
Yep, we discussed that yesterday. Wilton Mitch Haley via Mercedes wrote: > > > > On October 4, 2015 at 1:48 PM WILTON via Mercedes > > wrote: > > > > > > Anybody know good leather repair shop for such repairs, in case Coach > > can't, >

Re: [MBZ] Global cooling

2015-10-03 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Well we have had about 8" of global cooling here in the last day or so, the HEAVIEST rain is expected tonight! Charleston is closed off to the outside world, people are kayaking in the streets. I'm not even sure we could get off this island now as the roads seem to be flooded everywhere. We

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2015-10-03 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
Max wrote: > ...Hooray, I'm not a nut case!!! You are too wishfull / ambitious. "Science" will still call you a nut case - just wait and see. mao ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change

Re: [MBZ] Global cooling

2015-10-03 Thread Max Dillon via Mercedes
Interesting. Perhaps the science isn't settled after all, and all the so-called "deniers" have good reason to be sceptical. Hooray, I'm not a nut case!!! -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300 On October 3, 2015 11:14:22 AM EDT, archer75--- via Mercedes

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2015-10-03 Thread Max Dillon via Mercedes
Let me know if I needed to come get you with my sail boat. Hope the water doesn't get too much higher for you, I think your proximity to the ocean means the water can drain off quickly. We've got a couple inches in the low parts of our backyard, which is a drainage easement to the pond about

Re: [MBZ] Global cooling

2015-10-03 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Only 1.5" through today. Bulk of the rain stayed south of D.C. On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Mountain Man via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Max wrote: > > ...Hooray, I'm not a nut case!!! > > You are too wishfull / ambitious. > "Science" will still call you a nut case - just wait

Re: [MBZ] Global cooling

2015-10-03 Thread Curly McLain via Mercedes
Only 1.5" through today. Bulk of the rain stayed south of D.C. Obviously enough to shut down goobermnt computers. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: