Good morning!!!!

[PJSprog]

that's a lot of rain...
am waiting to hear stories of Mississippi River flooding.
Always wanted to live near the water, but not in it. Am happy at 32 feet above sea level.

We had some warnings for some of the smaller rivers around here earlier this week. No doubt the Missouri and Illinois will be problems again as well ... all of which eventually end up in the Mississippi. Here at the confluence of three major rivers, Spring flooding is simply a way of life. In the Trenton area, we are 495' above sea level. St. Louis is 466', and the Mississippi River is about 28' deep at STL. When it floods, it can get as deep as 40'. That's a lot of water.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Over the past 20 years or so, it seems everyone has gotten so narrow in their scope that it is indeed almost impossible to find truly unbiased news anymore. Sad, really, considering the incredible glut of information available to even the casual observer. I know it's probably always been like that, but it just seems so brazen now. Discouraging.

I think that's a pretty accurate assessment of the situation, PJ. Back in the days of only three TV stations, the differences in coverage were harder to spot and the journalistic standards were higher as well. Now, anybody with an Internet feed can "publish" anything they want and call it news. And as several recent mistruths by national commentators have shown, I'm not even sure there are such things as journalistic standards any more. Reading the news is now a statistical process, where one hopes to gather a large enough sample to be able to detect a trend and is able to settle on that resembling some aspects of truth.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Kyle, is it time to start looking into tornado shelters? That storm sounded like pretty serious business! Glad you and yours came out OK, and hopefully you didn't lose anything out in the yard.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Gone Canadian have you?
We are glad there was no tornado, Kyle.:thumbsup:

Randy gets the attaboy for catching my aboot.

RNG, I hope you have a contracted price on your van. Otherwise you'll be paying for their ________.

 

[sodamo]

67°F and no rain. See some sun peeking thru

No firm plans for the day. Maybe just wing it and see what makes the wife happy.

Prayers for all

Be safe
Have a great day

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, I hope you have a contracted price on your van. Otherwise you'll be paying for their ________.

I do, Kyle, but at this point, it's not about the money. The leopard's not going to change his spots, and this guy'll never have his act together enough to finish this project. I just want the van back so I can get it done, and really don't care if I have to spend some more money to make it happen. Life's too short to waste time with someone like this, and one way or another, that's gonna stop in three weeks.

 

[sodamo]

It’s very difficult to get real news anymore, anywhere.

Very true. Seems more and more what gets reported as news is just something that presents as favoring a viewpoint. I guess the import thing is to fill the time slot. Lately, one of our local stations seemed to think it was important to tell us who got sent to jail. Sadly, most good news goes under reported unless it makes a good fluff piece. We often get an interesting perspective on national/world news in that all the major “6 o’clock” venues are prerecorded and a bit old by the time we see them and often their reports have been overcome by real time events reported in real time on the internet.

 

[sodamo]

Kyle, glad to hear it was a non event.

 

[sodamo]

RNG, I believe you are way more patient than I would be.

 

[Looking4new]

I'm back from the North Bay shopping trip, and a trip to the PO to get the parcel that came from the West coast by way of Ottawa, ON (where it didn't need to go as Ottawa is 4 hours northeast of Toronto and I am 3.5 hours north of Toronto) Canada Post....What a cluster f... Another Federal Corporation.