@Londy3 Waited too long to make the move. Now I'm in the unenviable position of not getting enough for my house to buy another in a more desirable location. So I'm trapped until the Reaper comes calling. I guess I'm a poor example of white-privilege. Doing the best as I can with what I have, and luckily I don't live right in the heart of Gary proper but on the outskirts in unincorporated Lake County. Kind of a wooded oasis that has pretty much escaped much of what people imagine Gary to be. Nice neighbors ... and relatively quiet. So things could be worse. Staying indoors, watching movies, listening to music, playing board games with my wife, and smoking my pipe makes life tolerable. But if anyone wants to start a Go Fund Me page so the wife and I can escape to a nice quiet place in the country I'll start packing tonight.
You know your a hardcore pipe smoker when you sit outside your front door during a major hurricane and smoke your pipe while watching the wind try and uproot a tree.
I've heard you can tell the really hardcore smokers when; they have burn holes in all their t-shirts that they didn't know were there; or, when they get a new pipe and are already looking at what to get next, before the last one bought arrives; or when they are jonesing that they have no pipe or tobacco deliveries for a week; or when they develop a spreadsheet to track tobacco in the cellar, which calculates how long they can hold out with tobacco once the govt bans it; or maybe the worst is when the list says they have something they can't find and they look for 45 minutes, so then just order it again in frustration; or so I've told about people like this, those people are really hardcore . Like the saying, that guy must really be a juice bag, I see him every time I'm at the bar.
When you build a small roof over the back step to smoke under in the rain/snow, ... then build a big roof over the whole back patio, ... then build a wood slat wall to block the wind and snow.... then build another wall so you have a 'nook ... then add a porch heater.... then a gas fire pit. Ahhh, veteran porch sitters.
@PappyJoe, been there, done that, got that T-shirt. I sat on the downwind side of my house trying to light a cigar during a hurricane. Eventually it worked, but took a while.
That's the number of hurricanes or deadly storms I either lived through or worked. Including about 14 I worked while on active duty in the Coast Guard. Want to talk fun? Try driving through a hurricane to in order to arrive at the same time as the eye passed over Corpus Christi or sitting through a storm so you could be on one of the first helicopters to fly into an area.
Two of the storms were at sea. One in the Arctic and one coming up from the Antarctic. Every been on a ship when it takes a 63 degree roll?
I gave all the t-shirts to Goodwill and just burned the underwear.
I’ve seen a documentary/science/history? show about some of the Coast Guard Boats? Ship? Not sure what differentiates the two? Anyway, I guess some (of the smaller ones?) are designed to be able to actually roll completely over and bob back up. Better have the hatches and portals closed😳
@RockyMountainBriar That would probably have been about the Coast Guard's National Motor Lifeboat School or some of the rescue craft that are used nationwide. Technically, the National Motor Lifeboat school was founded in 1980, but reality is that the Coast Guard Station Cape Disappointment at the mouth of the Columbia River had been used to train rescue boat crews since the early 1960s. It's a dangerous school and mission. The last case I worked when I was stationed in Seattle was a training accident about a mile upriver from the Columbia River Bar. A rouge wave hit a 41-foot utility boat on a night training exercise and flipped it. We lost three Coast Guardsmen that night.
It was a Seattle CG Station from what I remember. The boat had a fully enclosed bridge and the boat was “self-righting”. Similar to the orange/black one in this youtube video. Sorry, I don’t know how to link the video.
Roughest RNLI lifeboat rescues in huge waves and stormy seas
I think I found the boat, a USCG RB-M (Response Boat-Medium). There is a youtube “self-righting” test of the boat. The video I saw showed the boat going through a huge wave, they are like a submarine that can’t (and shouldn’t) dive🙂. Cool and Impressive!
usually I see this in reverse, but the other day I caught the local coast guard getting towed back into port by a cabin cruiser. I'm guessing someone had a bad day.
@PappyJoe you can just make it out off the bow and Stern of the two boats. I was too far away for a good picture, had to zoom in. It struck me as so odd Thats why I snapped the picture.
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Guilty on ALL counts! 😊
I sat on the downwind side of my house trying to light a cigar during a hurricane. Eventually it worked, but took a while.
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That's the number of hurricanes or deadly storms I either lived through or worked. Including about 14 I worked while on active duty in the Coast Guard. Want to talk fun? Try driving through a hurricane to in order to arrive at the same time as the eye passed over Corpus Christi or sitting through a storm so you could be on one of the first helicopters to fly into an area.
Two of the storms were at sea. One in the Arctic and one coming up from the Antarctic. Every been on a ship when it takes a 63 degree roll?
I gave all the t-shirts to Goodwill and just burned the underwear.
Sounds like @PappyJoe did 🙂
Which is understandable🙂
I’ve seen a documentary/science/history? show about some of the Coast Guard Boats? Ship? Not sure what differentiates the two? Anyway, I guess some (of the smaller ones?) are designed to be able to actually roll completely over and bob back up. Better have the hatches and portals closed😳
That would probably have been about the Coast Guard's National Motor Lifeboat School or some of the rescue craft that are used nationwide. Technically, the National Motor Lifeboat school was founded in 1980, but reality is that the Coast Guard Station Cape Disappointment at the mouth of the Columbia River had been used to train rescue boat crews since the early 1960s. It's a dangerous school and mission. The last case I worked when I was stationed in Seattle was a training accident about a mile upriver from the Columbia River Bar. A rouge wave hit a 41-foot utility boat on a night training exercise and flipped it. We lost three Coast Guardsmen that night.
Here's a good video if anyone is interested. The action starts right around the one minute mark.
I don’t see a tow line.
Back in the dark ages when I was on active duty, something like that would create a problem for whoever was at fault.
Saw this on youtube and thought of you....