Friday, July 23, 2010

Open Blog - Weekend Version


"Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink."

- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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drewzepmeister said...

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner-Samuel Taylor Coleridge. I have a killer 13 minute epic song by Iron Maiden describing this poem.

July 23, 2010 at 5:21 AM
kkdither said...

I looked out this morning and there is no standing water. Whew. Seems that we were pretty lucky? Milwaukee was shut down last night. So many roads totally flooded and the airport completely down. I really feel sorry for them with the massive clean up that will be required for all the flooded basements.

As for the rime... I wonder if everyone learned that poem. I learned it with the second line "and n'eer a drop to drink."

July 23, 2010 at 8:16 AM
OrbsCorbs said...

There's gonna be a ton o'turds floating in Lake M after this batch of storms. I have friends in Milwaukee I'm going to call later to see if their basement sewers backed up. They were hit really hard - a line of storms just kept pounding and pounding them.

July 23, 2010 at 8:59 AM
OrbsCorbs said...

Here's a pic of an Escalade at the bottom of a sinkhole at North and Oakland in Milwaukee: http://twitpic.com/27poaj

July 23, 2010 at 9:14 AM
Anonymous said...

Halebopp you were discovered today in 1995 Happy Birthday!

July 23, 2010 at 9:46 AM
Sassa said...

Orbs...I heard that the Escalade had just 'filled up' and they left in running all night in the sink hole to burn off the gasoline. One station said look at the wheels turning.

July 23, 2010 at 4:27 PM
OKIE said...

Sassa

I just heard on the NBC Nightly News it had a full tank of gas and is still running.
We had those kinds of rains last month. In fact in June we had 1 months worth of rain in one day and on July 3rd we already beat the normal rainfall for the month.
The one advantage you guys have is that your basements flood. Down here there are no basements so the houses get flooded.
That kind of rain can be quite frightening.

July 23, 2010 at 5:50 PM
OrbsCorbs said...

I heard about the Escalade running, too. How the devil will they get it out? A crane? I suggested to a neighbor that the insurance company should just write it off as a total loss and then they can leave the SUV in the hole and bury it. :P

A big problem in Milwaukee has not just been basements flooding, but sewers backing up. Last week they had over a thousand homes with backed up sewers. God knows what the toll of this storm will be.

July 23, 2010 at 7:39 PM
OKIE said...

Ick Orbs, I didn't even think about that.

July 23, 2010 at 8:20 PM
MinnesotaChick said...

I'm going to Minnesota tomorrow!!

Annd I got a laptop for a early birthday present! :D

July 23, 2010 at 8:25 PM
OrbsCorbs said...

Yay for DA!

July 24, 2010 at 9:50 AM

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