Subj : Miss.RvrDamBreach-Davenpt To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Sat Jun 22 2019 11:37:00 Hi Nancy! NB> We had similar... and then a couple of days with highs in the low NB> 80s... and now a monster rain storm... but no thunder or NB> lightning... One of the other property owners was out on the Pond NB> in her kayak during the storm... Hmm: around here we sometimes just boat in the flooded streets! BM>>> Yup: was a little soggy here in May: the longest dry spell was two BM>>> consecutive days, otherwise it rained. NB>>> Hmmmm.... April showers bring May flowers... Do May showers bring NB>>> June flowers....? Or just June bugs.... BM>> Around here June brings May Flies - seriously! Little nuisances always BM>> show up a month later than thair name implies -- just another thing BM>> to cite in my theory the calendar is off a month! NB>> They'd be larvae in May....? BM> Well, that would work..... :) NB> True.... that's what I figured.... My son says that May showers NB> bring June flooding.... but I'd guess that it's more June showers NB> bringing the flooding.... We just flood! Good news is we're probably done with being flooded unless there is a big rainstorm and nothing predicted. NB>>> Yup. :) And I'll be heading back up there again, the end of next NB>>> week, by way of the Montreal Airport to pick up my son... Not sure how NB>>> long exactly I'll be away this time... he needs to get his Jeep (that NB>>> he stored up there) up and running before I can really leave him to NB>>> his own devices... Won't have internet access there, either... but NB>>> will bring the laptop with me and do some catching up on messages to NB>>> upload when I get home.... :) BM>> So we may experience a drought of messages and than a flood of them!! NB>> Possibly... :) And then another drought as I try to get caught NB>> up with the packets after my return.... BM> We'll make it! NB> Probably... :) I'm currently on the last packet I brought with NB> me, downloaded the night before I left to come up here... :) Here comes the flood of replies! ...Between finishing my replies and startign a new one have checked to see if anything from my helper in New Zealand on the copying of not-yet-watched TV shows from the old Backend system to the new one. Combination of him helping me and me helping him as he had previously written the programme just more or less needed someone to check a few details: things can work fine on a local system but don't realize I don't have a utility file he does, or a variable isn't populating quite right, etc. NB>>> At least it wasn't moving water, that might have been a bigger issue... NB>>> And probably not slowing down is how it managed to not be stopped... BM>> If that car had gone through moving water (like a flooded bridge) may BM>> have been in a LOT of trouble, especially if up to the hood! Water BM>> would have been flowing perpendicular to the car's travel, more than BM>> like pushed the car against the guard rail and possibly flipping BM>> over.... No, not a good scenario. :( NB>> It doesn't take much.... especially when the water is pushing.... BM> True. And then add the push of any wind to make the situation worse. NB> Yup, that would make things even worse.... So the key is just stay out of potential problem areas! Though not always possible like with my little incident of having to drive through that big puddle. BM>> As for not slowing down in the scenario that did occur, the momentum BM>> probably did help the car get through. ...I'm just still surprised BM>> the electrical system didn't short out. NB>> They were just lucky.... BM> In a word, yes. Still don't know how they got through, especially BM> after that incident years ago I went through that overgrown puddle and BM> my engine immediately started knocking, etc. (Storm drain blocked, BM> cars to my left, cars immediately behind, curb on the right - car BM> wash!) NB> You didn't have much choice there.... Nope. Just firmly grasp the steering wheel as the car will pull and hope! NB>>> Still might have been somebody's reasoning for where it was.... NB>>> but probably just a lack of really thinking things through.... :) BM>> I'm thinking closer to (b). To my way of thinking the semi-logical BM>> scenario is the instructions were "put the port in the middle of the BM>> wall". If one adds 'with the cluster where the computer stand would BM>> go' and 'middle' as vertical distance then would be where the port BM>> should have been installed. Otherwise "middle of the wall" considered BM>> horizontally is roughly where the ports were installed (in various BM>> exam rooms). At least the ports were installed on the same wall as the BM>> computer and not on the opposite one!! NB>> It could have been worse.... :) I'd guess another factor might NB>> have been that it was two different people/teams installing the NB>> electrical systems and the Ethernet.... BM> Quite probably two different contractors. ...I'll have to 'snoop' on BM> the telephone location: wall phone, but to me in an inconvenient BM> location as no where near the computer stand. LIS, the phone is in an BM> odd location; now I'm wondering if it is located on the wall exactly BM> across from the Ethernet wall plate. ...More things that make me go BM> hmmmm. NB> Someday your curiosity will get you in trouble... But this NB> could be an interesting excursion.... ;) Did check: the phones are in a not-too-convenient position but don't seem to correlate with the Ethernet jack positioning. ...So far avoided getting in too much trouble! ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... 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