ExiledInIllinois

Same day... Same year... 100s of miles apart. Maybe it was the climate that sparked 2 huge fires back in 1871. Back then we blamed the humans and learned to build better. Today we still blame us humans but more so the power companies and ClimateChange and dodge the way we engineer and build. Maybe we should definitely start rebuilding for ClimateChange. That means better engineered structures for the set location AND less people in the ClimateChange "danger zones."

Take a look at the picture above. No combustibles around the house. The river rock and 5 foot clear zone WASN'T BUILT for fire protection, but the steel roof and that 5 foot clear served that purpose... It was still designed that way for local geographical reasons. Which begs the question, why aren't we building according to the land, location, and ClimateChange? Agree on some of this, but disagree on other parts. Need to start building according to the location! It's modern times! "The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned in the American city of Chicago during October 8–10, 1871. The fire killed approximately 300 people, destroyed roughly 3.3 square miles (9 km2) of the city including over 17,000 structures, and left more than 100,000 residents homeless." Peshtigo, Wisconsin was worse! Happened on same day as Great Chicago Fire! Maui fires aren't even close to the death toll and destruction! "The Peshtigo fire was a large forest fire on October 8, 1871, in northeastern Wisconsin, United States, including much of the southern half of the Door Peninsula and adjacent parts of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The largest community in the affected area was Peshtigo, Wisconsin, which had a population of approximately 1,700 residents. The fire burned about 1.2 million acres and is the deadliest wildfire in RECORDED HISTORY, with the number of DEATHS estimated between 1,500 and 2,500. Although the exact number of deaths is debated, mass graves, both those already exhumed and those still being discovered, in Peshtigo and the surrounding areas show that the death toll of the blaze was most likely greater than the 1889 Johnstown flood death toll of 2,200 people or more."

Check out all the combustibles around that house! They didn't do what this house did and the reason why this house survived: Who's fault is it why the other houses burned? Some will view this being the hand of Providence... It's the proper hand of humans. Serendipity at best, maybe the structural elements weren't added for fire protection, but they served as fire protection features. Can they learn from it?

Does it change my retirement age from 57?

Look to the universe, it's already been created.

What would a whiny conservative thread be without a whiny conservative post! 😆 Keep up the good work! You can checkout anytime, but you can't leave until your IQ drops at least 50 points!😏

Fascism is on right. I thought we were communists... I see you're still on the dark side.

You got cheese to go with that whine? What came first? The criminal or political opposition. The criminal of course, he's running for office to shield himself from legal peril. Ain't getting very far. My grandfather who was born in 1910: "Republicans fight with money, Democrats guns."

Good! Less people to contend with... Don't worry, we'll welcome back the ClimateChange refugees... For a price!

Check this out... Two conservatives drop from the sky. A poor liberal mowing her lawn suffers! https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/09/us/texas-woman-snake-hawk-attack/index.html I just started that... See headline above!

He's NOT her type: I am always aggressive. 😉

Mods... Please merge this with the "Whiny Little Conservative B-Word Thread." Danke! 😆

I'll start: https://nypost.com/2023/08/18/jail-where-trump-to-turn-himself-in-known-for-bad-conditions/ What a whiny little conservative B word. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime! Suck it up snowflakes. That's a hell of a head there TrumpyBaby! 😆

...Oh, tempted by the fruit of another Tempted but the truth is discovered Tempted by the fruit of another Tempted but the truth is discovered...

Did you ever learn how to pass through the electric beam and get to the credit screen? Collect all the items and drag it down to the one lower room... Including the bat. EDIT: NOT the bat... Watch OUT for the bat, he steals sh...t... 😆 You can then pass through the beam immediately from castle to right... It will give you the credit screen. This is the first known Easter Egg in a video game. https://eeggs.com/items/453.html I can't remember who I got this info from back in day... Word of mouth. Full instructions: "Adventure Easter Egg - Atari Adventure Easter Egg - the First Known Egg! 1. Get the bridge 2. Take it inside the black castle 3. Find the central room that causes the screen to flicker. You must have an object with you to see the flicker, as it takes 3 game sprites to cause flicker (you, the "dot" and the 3rd object, in this case the bridge) 4. Use the bridge to get into the secret chamber in the middle of that room 5. Inside that the secret chamber there is a "dot" -- pick it up by pressing into the lower right corner of the chamber. 6. Take the dot to the main hallway (below the golden castle) 7. Once there the dot will cause one of the hallway barriers to disappear. Note that you need to have another object in the room (key, sword, duck, etc.) to make the barrier disappear. You also usually have to have the "dot" in front of you to go through. 8. You can then enter a hidden chamber that lists a message from the programmers 9. (This game is from the 1985 era but it still contains an Easter egg) 10. There is also a secret room in the white castle that requires the use of the bridge 11. Bonus egg, you can change the "Winning music" by hitting the select lever after your drag the chalise through the yellow castle door."

When law enforcement was effective, basically self-serve. 😆 ...Just don't tell JimmySpags about the goat, he'll wanna ***** it! 😕😕 Back when there was law and order.

Are you kidding me... Over my dead body will I pay... $10 a month? 😆 Just find what you're looking for somewhere else. Why don't they just make news free and take a cut from the ISPs? Like tack on some kinda nominal news fee. A few pennies from everyone. 😆... This would go over well. Keep your dirty fingers outta the pie! Or card that is about to expire. Will prepaid cards work?

Check out what this kid had to do: https://weather.com/news/weather/video/teen-evades-approaching-maui-fire-hours-pass-in-ocean?pl=pl-latest-forecasts-Topic

Yeah! Maybe I should have used the term: "Old Time Hockey" ...Goonism doesn't really do physical play justice.

A BILLION? 😮‍💨 ADD a few more zeros please. 😉 Hey Phil:

You ROCK! A lover not a hater! 😃😊

Eagles Giants Lions Texans Seem to be missing? Did I muss any team?

Cheatriots are tied with Bills in arrests. No correlation to winning.

Not so fast about "unstoppable." I never played that but there's a guy at work, about your age, 10 years younger than me... He's a Chicago Homer, Blackhawks, Bears, Bulls, & Sox total insufferable... So we get to talking about video games in 1990s and he brings up the NHL game. He couldn't remember the Sabres defenseman that he used to "tune-up" the star players while his friend would hit the roof in anger, rage-quit... So I started rattling off Sabres players. It was, none other than: Richard Šmehlík. LoL... He said the way the game was set up, he'd use him to thwart his friend's player... AND boy would his friend get mad. 😆 When goon hockey ruled and the game was real! 😏 None of this pansy stuff today! From Wiki: "During the 1999 Stanley Cup finals he was described as "like a human hovercraft... hard to get around!" I guess the game got it right and my friend sure exploited it to his other friend's chagrin! 😆