OT - What are you doing right now?

frazzdaddy

frazzdaddy said:

Gulfcoastguy said:

Getting ready to evacuate. The latest forecast centers my town. Still a catagory one but up to 18 inches of rain and 7 to 11 feet of storm surge.

Wouldn't be suprised if this LF's east a bit but do think it will be almost a Cat 3 by then. Latest recon has her slowing down but intensifying a bit more than was thought initially. Be safe sir.

Be safe guy's. There is going to be a lot of water inland for a while with this one.

lousubcap

@gonepostal - that is a nice vacation spot but that cook is taking it to a whole new level.  Great finish with that flat-iron.  

nolaegghead

I talk to @travisstrick daily.  He left his house on the water in Pensacola yesterday when the power went out.  He will probably not be able to get back for a couple/few days.  Neighbor's Airstream was floating around...

TideEggHead

We have some friends in Orange beach that stayed, they said they have 5 inches of water in their first floor.

ColbyLang

My parents stayed in Pensacola. Said the face of the condo they’re in is missing 2/3 of its stucco and there is roofing everywhere. No surge where they are

saluki2007

Yippee!  The B1G finally got their sheet together and are going to play that pigskin game.

dbCooper

SGH said:

dbCooper said:

Back in the 80's a buddy and I played with racing karts, McCulloch engines from chain saws.  Stone age stuff when compared to what you have there.

I’m going to take a guess and say it was McCulloch Pro Mac 1000 engines. Am I right?

That is possibly correct, I seem to recall Power Max 1000 but my memory could use one of your Arkansas stones.  I do know money was a big issue, so using dedicated MC racing engines was out for us.

fishlessman

just saw a car with an exhaust tricked out to sound like automatic gunfire

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/car-exhaust-pipe-gunfire-sound-i-team-new-york-city-brooklyn/1063002/

while eating a med/rare mcdonalds quarter pound cheese burger. was watching the car while eating it, then looked down and saw it was still mooing. am i going to die

fishlessman

looking at flood insurance for the camp. allstate $6435.00.......llyods of london $697.00 based on the same flood zone.now looking into if the bank accepts a private insurance policy and if allstate can be cancelled

Ozzie_Isaac

fishlessman said:

looking at flood insurance for the camp. allstate $6435.00.......llyods of london $697.00 based on the same flood zone.now looking into if the bank accepts a private insurance policy and if allstate can be cancelled

Wow!  I may need to look into Lloyds too.  My math isn't so good, but I do know what a moved decimal place means.

JohnInCarolina

saluki2007 said:

Yippee!  The B1G finally got their sheet together and are going to play that pigskin game.

Hopefully the frequent testing will allow them to avoid things like this:

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/29892180/lsu-coach-ed-orgeron-most-team-contracted-coronavirus

Wolfpack

Kind of like my mom’s chicken pox plan.  When my sister got it, as toddlers, mom made me drink after her so we could knock it out at the same time. 

fishlessman

Ozzie_Isaac said:

fishlessman said:

looking at flood insurance for the camp. allstate $6435.00.......llyods of london $697.00 based on the same flood zone.now looking into if the bank accepts a private insurance policy and if allstate can be cancelled

Wow!  I may need to look into Lloyds too.  My math isn't so good, but I do know what a moved decimal place means.

they have me on a 25 percent per year increase until it meets full value, thats a 1600 dollar increase with allstate come january. what is full value, no one seems to know

Wolfpack

Maybe we should call this plan the Orgeron 90 day vaccine. 

FarmingPhD

Leftover skirt steak sandwich for lunch

ColtsFan

ColtsFan said:

Just listed the Condo for sale. It’s been a busy couple of weeks 😂 As hot as the market is in Bloomington, I suspect it won’t last a week

As I predicted, 18 hours in and 1 offer 2k over list and another all cash offer coming soon according to realtor.

Crazy times

saluki2007

JohnInCarolina said:

saluki2007 said:

Yippee!  The B1G finally got their sheet together and are going to play that pigskin game.

Hopefully the frequent testing will allow them to avoid things like this:

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/29892180/lsu-coach-ed-orgeron-most-team-contracted-coronavirus

Read that yesterday.  That's nuts.  I can't believe after a positive player comes back they don't get tested again for 90 days.

GATraveller

fishlessman said:

just saw a car with an exhaust tricked out to sound like automatic gunfire

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/car-exhaust-pipe-gunfire-sound-i-team-new-york-city-brooklyn/1063002/

while eating a med/rare mcdonalds quarter pound cheese burger. was watching the car while eating it, then looked down and saw it was still mooing. am i going to die

Probably. Can I have your camp? 

GATraveller

ColtsFan said:

ColtsFan said:

Just listed the Condo for sale. It’s been a busy couple of weeks 😂 As hot as the market is in Bloomington, I suspect it won’t last a week

As I predicted, 18 hours in and 1 offer 2k over list and another all cash offer coming soon according to realtor.

Crazy times

Now just gotta get it to appraise. 

fishlessman

ColtsFan said:

ColtsFan said:

Just listed the Condo for sale. It’s been a busy couple of weeks 😂 As hot as the market is in Bloomington, I suspect it won’t last a week

As I predicted, 18 hours in and 1 offer 2k over list and another all cash offer coming soon according to realtor.

Crazy times

guy next to me mentioned he was going to sell his camp at work, cash offer early morning the next day, it really is crazy right now

Mark_B_Good

fishlessman said:

while eating a med/rare mcdonalds quarter pound cheese burger. was watching the car while eating it, then looked down and saw it was still mooing. am i going to die

Nah, your body can't digest that plastic stuff ... you should be fine. LOL.

Mark_B_Good

fishlessman said:

ColtsFan said:

ColtsFan said:

Just listed the Condo for sale. It’s been a busy couple of weeks 😂 As hot as the market is in Bloomington, I suspect it won’t last a week

As I predicted, 18 hours in and 1 offer 2k over list and another all cash offer coming soon according to realtor.

Crazy times

guy next to me mentioned he was going to sell his camp at work, cash offer early morning the next day, it really is crazy right now

Where is all the money coming from?  Isn't it insane that normally in the face of a pandemic and potential economic collapse, people would save their money because of the unknown?

NOT TODAY!

fishlessman

Mark_B_Good said:

fishlessman said:

ColtsFan said:

ColtsFan said:

Just listed the Condo for sale. It’s been a busy couple of weeks 😂 As hot as the market is in Bloomington, I suspect it won’t last a week

As I predicted, 18 hours in and 1 offer 2k over list and another all cash offer coming soon according to realtor.

Crazy times

guy next to me mentioned he was going to sell his camp at work, cash offer early morning the next day, it really is crazy right now

Where is all the money coming from?  Isn't it insane that normally in the face of a pandemic and potential economic collapse, people would save their money because of the unknown?

NOT TODAY!

its a good place to hide from the pandemic if you are hit hard by the pandemic in a big city. people want out of the city. the last seller waited three years to get it sold and it went a little over half her asking price, that was about 5 years ago and she took a beating.

SciAggie

SamIAm2 said:

@SciAggie - Watched the "Pescado" episode this morning and really enjoyed that. The whole time I kept wondering if you were going to make and post your own take on examples from each of the episodes. Would be an epic thread!  

Great idea! Gimme some time though, lol. I have my hands full with teaching at the moment - in person, remote, currently quarantined, and online credit recovery - for 4 different preps. I could work for Ringling Bros the way I’m juggling right now. 

Eoin

fishlessman said:

Mark_B_Good said:

fishlessman said:

ColtsFan said:

ColtsFan said:

Just listed the Condo for sale. It’s been a busy couple of weeks 😂 As hot as the market is in Bloomington, I suspect it won’t last a week

As I predicted, 18 hours in and 1 offer 2k over list and another all cash offer coming soon according to realtor.

Crazy times

guy next to me mentioned he was going to sell his camp at work, cash offer early morning the next day, it really is crazy right now

Where is all the money coming from?  Isn't it insane that normally in the face of a pandemic and potential economic collapse, people would save their money because of the unknown?

NOT TODAY!

its a good place to hide from the pandemic if you are hit hard by the pandemic in a big city. people want out of the city. the last seller waited three years to get it sold and it went a little over half her asking price, that was about 5 years ago and she took a beating.

Houses selling fast here too. Rural area but decent train links to London if needed. Businesses here are still being supported, while people are working at home or at home on Government money. Extra disposable income, plus there's a tax break on property short term. Govt furlough ends soon, when unemployment arrives things will correct quickly.

ColbyLang

Trying to navigate my parents a way out of Pensacola. Dad said it’s bad....

kl8ton

ColbyLang said:

Trying to navigate my parents a way out of Pensacola. Dad said it’s bad....

My brother is there and he is 80 feet above sea level. But he did say there are chopper rescues going on as well as water rescues in some of the lower areas. 

Boileregger

Botch said:

 Supposedly No tax dollar were used for it (heh).  

As someone with almost 20 years of working with airports and airlines, I can tell you that this is mostly true depending on how you define "tax dollars."

There are three main sources of funding for airport construction projects like this.

1) FAA's Airport Improvement Program (AIP).  This is a federal grant program that is funded through aviation user fees.  Largest sources of funding for this is a tax that the passenger pays when they buy their airline tickets or when a aircraft owner buys fuel.

2)  Passenger Facility Charge (PFC).  Airports at their individual discretion can choose to charge a PFC that is basically put into a savings account for future construction/renovation projects.  Airports who charge PFCs charge them to passengers, but the actual fee is collected by the airline and then paid from airline to airport. There is a federal cap on the maximum PFC that airports can charge per ticket, and the airports want them raised but airlines do not want raised, as any increase in price decreases demand.  In the current environment, no chance in hell PFC gets increased.

3) Airport rates & charges and bonds against future revenues.  Airports are required to be basically self-sustaining non-profit organizations.  They cannot incur a loss, as if they do the airlines/tenants have to make up for it.  The airports collect landing fees from airlines, and charge terminal rent for airlines, rent a car providers, concessions providers, etc.  While the rates and charges are generally to cover operational costs only, airports can issue bonds against future revenues.  The interest they pay on this gets rolled back into the rates and charges.  At a hub airport like SLC, they definitely negotiated with Delta and other tenents on a rate increase to cover all of this.  So, in other words, get ready for the price of your air fares and your pre-flight Whopper to go up.

So, it is true that no federal, state, or local tax money collected through the general fund has gone into a project like this.  But if you have ever bought an airline ticket, your local airport and the federal government has collected taxes/fees from you that have been put to this project.

ColbyLang

kl8ton said:

ColbyLang said:

Trying to navigate my parents a way out of Pensacola. Dad said it’s bad....

My brother is there and he is 80 feet above sea level. But he did say there are chopper rescues going on as well as water rescues in some of the lower areas. 

They’re at La Riva. No power or water. No storm surge where they are. He was talking with the sheriffs department on scene when we last spoke. Cops were trying to help them find a path out

EzraBrooks

Boileregger said:

Botch said:

 Supposedly No tax dollar were used for it (heh).  

As someone with almost 20 years of working with airports and airlines, I can tell you that this is mostly true depending on how you define "tax dollars."

There are three main sources of funding for airport construction projects like this.

1) FAA's Airport Improvement Program (AIP).  This is a federal grant program that is funded through aviation user fees.  Largest sources of funding for this is a tax that the passenger pays when they buy their airline tickets or when a aircraft owner buys fuel.

2)  Passenger Facility Charge (PFC).  Airports at their individual discretion can choose to charge a PFC that is basically put into a savings account for future construction/renovation projects.  Airports who charge PFCs charge them to passengers, but the actual fee is collected by the airline and then paid from airline to airport. There is a federal cap on the maximum PFC that airports can charge per ticket, and the airports want them raised but airlines do not want raised, as any increase in price decreases demand.  In the current environment, no chance in hell PFC gets increased.

3) Airport rates & charges and bonds against future revenues.  Airports are required to be basically self-sustaining non-profit organizations.  They cannot incur a loss, as if they do the airlines/tenants have to make up for it.  The airports collect landing fees from airlines, and charge terminal rent for airlines, rent a car providers, concessions providers, etc.  While the rates and charges are generally to cover operational costs only, airports can issue bonds against future revenues.  The interest they pay on this gets rolled back into the rates and charges.  At a hub airport like SLC, they definitely negotiated with Delta and other tenents on a rate increase to cover all of this.  So, in other words, get ready for the price of your air fares and your pre-flight Whopper to go up.

So, it is true that no federal, state, or local tax money collected through the general fund has gone into a project like this.  But if you have ever bought an airline ticket, your local airport and the federal government has collected taxes/fees from you that have been put to this project.

I love this forum.  Where else on the interwebs can you get a lesson in airport economics, learn how to cook a brisket, discuss proper shaving techniques, and get ripped a new one for your political beliefs all in one place?