Good luck South Texas with IKE.

[patrick_777]

...unless the house collapses into the basement.

Trust me on this.

[alanmcorcoran]

Originally Posted by Sarris

I don't know if you're allowed to be both Biker Trash and Trailer Trash at the same time.
Also, what the hell is a basement??

Sarris,

My CFO is both, but she prefers the term Mobile Home, thank you very much. Of course, the only time the things are ever mobile is when a tornado comes through.

Seriously, though, I've come close to getting my ass beat for using the term. And I didn't even add trash to it.

Re the basement. Had a huge one in New Jersey. Don't have em in California. Where the hell are you supposed to put your unused exercise and camping equipment? My garage looks like some kind of mutant Tetris game. Effing water heater's in there too!

[Sarris]

Alan, Floriduh is the home of hundreds of thousands of "mobile homes" and "trailer parks" It's one of the top old far....., I mean retirement area of the country.

We don't have basements either, and most of our houses are the slab on grade, concrete block, single floor variety.

:yawn: :yawn:

[Easy Rider]

Originally Posted by Jer

The nice thing is we're moving on Friday. House with a basement.

Hope that basement is not a swimming pool by tomorrow.
We are getting the monsoon rains now. My rain gauge tops out at 5 inches; I expect it to overflow before the day is over.
Just hope the power stays on and the sump pump keeps running !!
Sure glad I got it connected to a field tile last week.

[Jer]

Nope. We had our share of water this year.

Hurricanes dont make it this far.

[Easy Rider]

Originally Posted by Jer

Hurricanes dont make it this far.

Yea, that's what I thought over here in Illinois.....not that far from you.
Ike, however, dropped about 5 inches on us in 24 hours.
You are not immune!!

[Sarris]

Chicago got a record rainfall today and there is street flooding all over. Who said hurricanes don't get that far north. Are you a global warming believer yet??

[patrick_777]

Katrina was still a Tropical Depression all the way into southern Indiana. The storm system itself actually dropped over 5" of rain in upstate NY and was tracked all the way into Maine.

[Jer]

Oh we're getting rain from it of course. But nothing to accumulate in the basement.

[Easy Rider]

Originally Posted by Sarris

Are you a global warming believer yet??

No but I AM a "believer" in man-made, global climate change.

Or to put that a little more precisely, I have a LOT more faith in those who say it IS happening than I do in those who say it is not.