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6 hours ago, Bill Brasky said:

I wasn't looking for much, but if they could have helped with my deductible it would have been nice.  Instead the funds went to people without insurance.   So that's what I get for being responsible.  

To be fair, you were the lucky one.  For Harvey, average insurance payout was $140K.  Average FEMA payout (no insurance) was $4K.  Your responsibility saved your ass.

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20 hours ago, Bevo said:

Tell me about Red Cross

During the Wimberley floods, they literally considered other aid organizations to be their "competitors."

They were so worthless that they left Wimberley after 2 days.

Also, Google "Red Cross Haiti."

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19 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

Why the methodists? I mean, I don't have an issue with them, just wondering why them specifically. What about the Amish?

 

I have several close friends who work for UMCOR, and that's just a copy-paste of ine of their fb posts.  "Anyone but RC" should be your main takeaway.

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4 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

During the Wimberley floods, they literally considered other aid organizations to be their "competitors."

They were so worthless that they left Wimberley after 2 days.

Also, Google "Red Cross Haiti."

During WW2 my grandad (aircraft electrician w/ 9th AF) developed a loathing of the Red Cross. Something involving a girl they rescued from who knows what hell, and Red Cross basically treated her like shit.

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10 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Holy crap.  Note to self:  if you ever see a water or flame retardant air drop inbound, run.

Water weighs about 8lbs per gallon, and getting hit with even one 8lb unit moving at a hundred fifty knots would be awful. Now imagine a thousand units hitting you

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1 minute ago, Captainant said:

Water weighs about 8lbs per gallon, and getting hit with even one 8lb unit moving at a hundred fifty knots would be awful. Now imagine a thousand units hitting you

You sound like the campers that set up their tents close to my Dad's house when the water balloon launchers came out... allegedly

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I'm very grateful to still have a house, but man the aftermath is taking a toll. I dropped off 30+ shirts and 10 suits at the dry cleaners and wearing them today, i STILL smell like a campfire. 

There's also a lot of concern in the area over the toxic ash that spread across the region from the thousands of homes, garages, and cars that burned. Although the AQI seems fine, that apparently doesn't account for all the toxic volatile compounds that have blanketed the area. 

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1 minute ago, Foosters said:

I'm very grateful to still have a house, but man the aftermath is taking a toll. I dropped off 30+ shirts and 10 suits at the dry cleaners and wearing them today, i STILL smell like a campfire. 

There's also a lot of concern in the area over the toxic ash that spread across the region from the thousands of homes, garages, and cars that burned. Although the AQI seems fine, that apparently doesn't account for all the toxic volatile compounds that have blanketed the area. 

The smell lingers for a long time. Like years for shit packed away in closets. We threw all our linens, curtains, etc. out. For the short term stock up on this.

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But glad you and the other posters are doing as well as possible.

And not to be a downer, but concerning all the clothes drop offs. Yeah, um, if you get any of the hand outs wash that shit industrial style. Lice.....

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I'm very grateful to still have a house, but man the aftermath is taking a toll. I dropped off 30+ shirts and 10 suits at the dry cleaners and wearing them today, i STILL smell like a campfire. 
There's also a lot of concern in the area over the toxic ash that spread across the region from the thousands of homes, garages, and cars that burned. Although the AQI seems fine, that apparently doesn't account for all the toxic volatile compounds that have blanketed the area. 

It takes about 3 days to get the smell off of me after work no matter how many times I shower. Working out a day or two after a fire it’s not uncommon to have the smell reappear.

There’s hundreds of chemicals released when man made materials burn. Whole bunch of shit that ends in -ene (carcinogenic), hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen sulfide, arsenic just to name the more recognizable. IDLH, PEL and STEL for quite a few of these chemicals is insanely low.
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11 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

Would an Ozone machine help?

https://a.co/d/6pjeSWP

It might. There's a crew at my house right now doing a deep cleaning with HEPA vaccums and other shit designed for smoke damage. If smell still remains, then that might be our next move. Our garage is currently packed full of large trash bags with pillows, stuffed animals, lampshades, etc. There's a laundry place down the road that does Ozone cleaning for those types of items, so we'll be taking them there 

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4 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Holy crap.  Note to self:  if you ever see a water or flame retardant air drop inbound, run.

Last Wednesday when I was at my house while shit was burning, a water dropping helo flew right over our house and did a drop one street up on a burning house.  It was a shitton of water.

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5 hours ago, locodos said:

interesting video, cut to the good stuff

 

Yeah I was gonna mention that earlier and forgot. Drops can be very hazardous to people on the ground, so there has to be a lot of coordination, making sure the drop areas are clear. Don't fuck around anywhere near the drop zone.

Also, just saw this update re: the PP fire.

 

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1 hour ago, Herbie Hancock said:


It takes about 3 days to get the smell off of me after work no matter how many times I shower. Working out a day or two after a fire it’s not uncommon to have the smell reappear.

There’s hundreds of chemicals released when man made materials burn. Whole bunch of shit that ends in -ene (carcinogenic), hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen sulfide, arsenic just to name the more recognizable. IDLH, PEL and STEL for quite a few of these chemicals is insanely low.

Yeah, the post box alarm shower = best thing evarrr.

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2 hours ago, Herbie Hancock said:


It takes about 3 days to get the smell off of me after work no matter how many times I shower. Working out a day or two after a fire it’s not uncommon to have the smell reappear.

There’s hundreds of chemicals released when man made materials burn. Whole bunch of shit that ends in -ene (carcinogenic), hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen sulfide, arsenic just to name the more recognizable. IDLH, PEL and STEL for quite a few of these chemicals is insanely low.

Yep. Working in my early 20s in a print shop, we would speed up the cleaning by wrapping rags around our hands and just splashing around with those -enes.

tick tock

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