I've got 113 acres in northern Greenbrier County in West Virginia, but it's 30 minutes to get to the main highway and another 30+ minutes to the hospital after that. My Wife and I both decided when we retired that we wanted to be much closer to health facilities. The last 4-5 miles to the property wasn't even paved until a few years ago. We like being much closer to conveniences now. It used to be there was little in the way of what was required when building on your land, but now you can't even have an outhouse, not to mention that electricity would still need to be run onto the property. I guess we've gotten way too used to suburban conveniences.
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I've got 113 acres in northern Greenbrier County in West Virginia, but it's 30 minutes to get to the main highway and another 30+ minutes to the hospital after that. My Wife and I both decided when we retired that we wanted to be much closer to health facilities. The last 4-5 miles to the property wasn't even paved until a few years ago. We like being much closer to conveniences now. It used to be there was little in the way of what was required when building on your land, but now you can't even have an outhouse, not to mention that electricity would still need to be run onto the property. I guess we've gotten way too used to suburban conveniences.
I’m with ya buddy - there is a WalMart 10 miles away - a coonass can survive forever with Walmart and Amazon - just hope there is no snow until we leave - I be screwed then - I’m sure when the lease term is up SOMEBODY will help get me out
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This is a repost of a post I made earlier today in the Politics Sucks thread. I know a lot of you guys don’t follow that thread so I put it over here. If you can help these folks in any way please do so...it is truly pitiful!!
As I sit on Bubblehead s porch this morning having coffee I pondered the state of America right now. Riots and protests in the streets, defunding police, politicians fighting for power at the expense of the people, and a virus rocking our country are all horrible things. While I don’t want to discount any of the above I would like to focus on what is really important. I have friends that I am gradually getting to talk to that were at ground zero for Hurricane Laura. Imagine to wake up one morning and everything that you have worked your ass off is suddenly just gone. Your neighbors houses are gone. The market you shopped for food is gone. Power and water for maybe 2 months is gone. Where you once sat watching your big screen tv and sipped a toddy reduced to a tent with a Coleman lantern and hopefully a bottle of water. All this brings me to my point. America is GOOD at its heart. Literally thousands upon thousands of Americans have flocked to the area to help their fellow man in this time of need. The storm has already been forgotten by the media and all the kindness and compassion will never be on the national news because that shows how good people really are in this country. Doesn’t make any difference if your black, white or polka dot people are there to help. I know how fortunate I am to be able to just leave and not have to go back until some resemblance of civilization returns. If all these protestors, rioters, etc could see law enforcement there workin double, even triple shifts to keep people safe and protect what property they have left. How could they not feel anything but pride that these folks would break their backs to protect us!! Anything you can do to help these folks if it’s not but $10 could help these poor, hardworking, now homeless people and make a positive difference in someone’s life during this trying time. At this point Trump has enough campaign money - my donations will be to my hometown now.
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Looks like summer is going to go out kicking and screaming
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You guys think this is where the saying “I may bend but never break” cane from 😂
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You guys think this is where the saying “I may bend but never break” cane from 😂
Amazing that the mobile home is still there
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its 12:20 Pm and we have already made it to 117 degrees - - the historic record for Sept 5th in Palm Springs was 116
I think its safe to say we will be setting a new record today - my weather / radar app on my phone says we will make it to 122
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Thank God climate change is a hoax. Think how hot it would be if it were real.
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Edward Neal we are not too far behind you with 109 and a possibility of 112. I have all my floaty’s ready for today and my kids are going to come home so I couldn’t be happier!
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Time to go back to science class and learn the difference between climate and weather.
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Being in California and living with all the wizards of smart when it comes to climate change I’m starting to wonder if we should trust them when the fifth largest economy in the world has trouble keeping the lights on on a hot summer day. Just saying.
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Being in California and living with all the wizards of smart when it comes to climate change I’m starting to wonder if we should trust them when the fifth largest economy in the world has trouble keeping the lights on on a hot summer day. Just saying.
I believe that a big part of California's problem is that in the attempt to go green and to also restore the environment they have reduced power sources that can work 24/7 like nuclear and hydroelectric and gas fired plants and replaced them with things like solar and wind that require storage because they dont work 24/7 - - and they did so without building the storage on the assumption that out of state sources could fill the holes - - as we are now discovering this does not work so well when we have heat waves that also hit those other states at the same time they hit CA
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I believe that a big part of California's problem is that in the attempt to go green and to also restore the environment they have reduced power sources that can work 24/7 like nuclear and hydroelectric and gas fired plants and replaced them with things like solar and wind that require storage because they dont work 24/7 - - and they did so without building the storage on the assumption that out of state sources could fill the holes - - as we are now discovering this does not work so well when we have heat waves that also hit those other states at the same time they hit CA
Totally agree! Add in confiscatory taxation and over regulation and Wala! California!
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MAN! This is getting a little crazy!
But I do like the 35° drop tonight -
MAN! This is getting a little crazy!
But I do like the 35° drop tonightwe are still going up and even with the drop looks like we will still be above 90
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found a neat link directly to the NOAA weather station just down the road at the Palm Springs Airport - shows complete hourly weather information - here is a screen grab starting at 11:53 pm last night up until now - - as you can see our lowest temperature was 90 degrees at about 2:53 am and we have been moving between 120 & 121 with 7 to 8% humidity for the last 5 hours
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Thank God climate change is a hoax. Think how hot it would be if it were real.
Frying egg on a sidewalk in June 1953. Guess the climate hasn’t changed much yet.
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Thus is how smart Vice Presidents are...
What was Joe Biden’s old job??
