I've got a burn pit so I made a bonfire

Post #440,109 by crazy 10/6/21 9:06:35 PM 10/6/21 9:06:35 PM Reply	I've got a burn pit so I made a bonfire I have about a month's worth of Amazon box deliveries and a whole bunch of wooden s* that the previous owner left behind that I'd rather not pay to dispose of. Time to burn s*. I've never owned a property that you could simply start a fire in your backyard. We had a burn ban until October 1st. It's over, I get to burn stuff. I have a incredible fire pit that is about 10 to 15 ft wide, depending on if you include the 3 ft high cinder blocks surrounding it. Amazon boxes burn really well and they are excellent kindling for wet cabinets that he pulled out of this house and decided he didn't want to move so he tossed in the burn pit. Except he tossed all kinds of plastic too. I'm pretty sure I'm not supposed to be burning plastic. So I had to empty the entire burn pit onto a tarp, it was a lot, and then start a fire with Amazon boxes and start throwing things in. It took about an hour and I had to use very thick gloves to make sure various items weren't going to kill me. When I was done I had a pound or 2 of plastic that I was happy to not burn. I'm going to dig out that burn pit and take it away. I can't trust anything inside there not to kill me if I ever decide to cook on it, and I want to cook on it. Hefty track contractor bags are incredible. I will dig until I hit dirt and then get another few feet in. I ordered a shovel just for this. It took about 4 hours to burn what I needed to get rid of at that moment and I still have many piles of stuff to go. But it's much more fun and much more cheaper than hiring someone to haul it away.
Post #440,116 by lincoln 10/7/21 2:45:34 PM 10/7/21 2:45:34 PM Reply	considering all of the wildfires the past few years I'd be surprised if area municipalities and counties do not have burn bans. Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous. - - - Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" 1897
Post #440,117 by crazy 10/7/21 5:50:14 PM 10/7/21 5:50:14 PM Reply	Must suck to live in a dry area Which is pretty much the entire country except for right here. I found my sliver. Welcome to the great Pacific Northwest. Right on the edge by the ocean. It's wet here. Seriously. I love the wet for the ability to breathe. I moved from Colorado where this fire would be insane. But here, the embers fall off the fire pit into the wet yard. And go out.
Post #440,119 by pwhysall 10/8/21 1:47:50 AM 10/8/21 1:53:19 AM Reply	You're in basically the same climate as me And yeah, it rains a lot. We're just now heading into The Long Dark. I'm at an even higher latitude than you (I think of all the IWTers, only CRC and Jack have a chance of being further north) by about 6°, and so I'm eagerly looking forward to about six hours of daylight, just around Xmas. Edited by pwhysall Oct. 8, 2021, 01:53:19 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #440,120 by CRConrad 10/8/21 5:29:15 AM 10/8/21 5:29:15 AM Reply	Cheer up, you've got over an hour more than that. Six hours of daylight down your way sounded a little pessimistic -- that's about what we get here. Mattrafack, seems this year you'll be just under 7:16 from December 20th to the 22nd: https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/@2647785?month=12&year=2021 Here in Helsinki, OTOH, we get under 5:50 from the 18th to the 24th: https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/finland/helsinki?month=12&year=2021 -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi
Post #440,121 by pwhysall 10/8/21 8:41:12 AM 10/8/21 8:41:12 AM Reply	Re: Cheer up, you've got over an hour more than that. Yeah, but the first hour and last hour are daylight in name only.
Post #440,128 by CRConrad 10/8/21 5:15:29 PM 10/8/21 5:15:29 PM Reply	Hour? The first and last frigging MONTHS of the year are totally fracking useless. These latitudes are really only inhabitable from about April to September, IMO. :-( -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi
Post #440,131 by a6l6e6x 10/8/21 10:51:08 PM 10/8/21 10:51:08 PM Reply	Don't know about Finland, but in Iceland couples have more children. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #440,136 by CRConrad 10/9/21 9:27:36 AM 10/9/21 9:27:36 AM Reply	You'd think that goes for all the Nordic countries, but nativity here is still really low. For the native populations, that is -- at least Sweden seems to think they've found the solution to this in allowing what is in practice unlimited immigration from MENA countries, which immigrants don't seem to drop their nativity rates for at least the first couple generations or so, but... I better not go further here, lest I be construed as being not only in the wrong forum (this not being Politics), but on all the wrong sides of it, too. -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi
Post #440,129 by crazy 10/8/21 5:18:16 PM 10/8/21 5:18:16 PM Reply	Long dark. I bought a sun lamp Basically an LED panel that is really bright. You're supposed to spend an hour next to it each morning. Don't look at the light, read a newspaper, do chores etc. I feel it does tickle my brain. I had the choice between this and the ceramic metal halide and this is safer / cooler and uses less electricity. I would actually rather have the CMH because you can feel warmth from it and it slowly ramps up so it feels like there is a sunrise happening. That'll be next.
Post #440,132 by Andrew Grygus 10/9/21 2:20:55 AM 10/9/21 2:20:55 AM Reply	Quite different here . . . . . in this Land of Three Seasons (Drought - Fire - Flood / Mudslide). Of course in my exact location, there is a significant change in the time of daylight. I live in a deep narrow valley(1) with mountains (to exaggerate a little(2)) on both sides. In summer, sunlight is from one end of this valley to the other. In winter, it is from over one mountain and down over the other. This sort of emulates what is happening in more northern regions - fortunately, not seriously. (1) This valley exists because a fault line runs from one end to the other, but it's small, and been dormant for a few million years or so, unlike up in Washington, where it's very big, and on a 300 year cycle that's past due. A good thing about this area is that it's all rotten granite, and I mean really rotten, you can kick it apart with your boots. This doesn't propagate earthquake shocks very well at all. (2) Actually, compared to the Appalachians. these are "mountains", but compared to what we call "mountains" out here, not so much.
Post #440,134 by crazy 10/9/21 7:49:05 AM 10/9/21 7:49:05 AM Reply	I'm on the edge of the state with real mountains to the east. This means sunrise is around 7:00 a.m.
Post #440,141 by InThane 10/9/21 8:54:35 PM 10/9/21 8:54:35 PM Reply	That means you'll get flattened by the tsunami. Ceterum autem censeo pars Republican esse delendam.
Post #440,142 by crazy 10/10/21 7:27:29 AM 10/10/21 7:27:29 AM Reply	I love the tsunami evacuation signs When's the last tsunami that hit this area? Never.
Post #440,151 by InThane 10/11/21 12:01:37 PM 10/11/21 12:02:08 PM Reply	let Never:u32 = 5; https://www.ijpr.org/2019-05-07/the-oral-history-wasnt-a-myth-tsunamis-hit-this-tribal-village-five-times-new-study-shows Ceterum autem censeo pars Republican esse delendam. Edited by InThane Oct. 11, 2021, 12:02:08 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #440,153 by Andrew Grygus 10/11/21 1:16:47 PM 10/11/21 1:34:49 PM Reply	There was once a continent . . . . . where the Pacific Ocean is now. The Pacific Plate shoved the whole thing down under the North American Plate - except a fragment along the Pacific Northwest - which is still being shoved under. As that former continent is shoved under, it causes the land to bulge up to the east. When it finally releases, the land slides west and drops. This action causes a very major tsunami, affecting the coast from Vancouver Island to the northern border of California. Geologists have determined these slippages happen on average every 300 years. It is now 321 years since the last one. The tsunami could hit this afternoon, or 150 years from now, we do not know. What we do know is that it will happen. Geologists expect that pretty much everything west of the I5 will be wiped. Edited by Andrew Grygus Oct. 11, 2021, 01:34:49 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #440,154 by malraux 10/11/21 2:57:44 PM 10/11/21 2:57:44 PM Reply	If you're looking for Never, it ain't there. Ground Zero for the next Really, Really Big One. You're literally right on the spot they use for making cross-sections to show how incredibly screwed that region is in the next quake. :-/ https://www.seismescanada.rncan.gc.ca/pprs-pprp/pubs/GF-GI/GEOFACT_ETS_e.pdf Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.

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