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bordercollie

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That is great to know on the dryer California !! Fixing yourself sure saves a potful of money. Biggest thing I do now is to take pictures so I'll know how I took it apart- internet pictures are not very clear.
I forgot to mention that it was hailing to beat the band last night - even with the strong wind I was delaying getting up , but I knew when I heard the hail pounding it was time to get up and be ready. I heard it may be a couple of days before our power is back on.. Ya'll be safe out there .
 

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I was outside last night and as normal, I look at the skies. Saw a few satellites then something really got me going. A fast moving object with another in the same path at the same speed. Then more and more. (I'd guess 60 or so). Freaked me out a bit.

An internet search this morning found the answer quickly. SpaceX has been deploying satellites in what is called a "Starlink chain". Awesome to see in the sky.

This site shows their current location. You can set your area then click "Predict Passes" and it'll show you when they're going overhead.
https://www.satflare.com/track.asp?q=StarLink3#TOP

Here's a 1-minute video to show you'll see. When I saw them last night, they were farther apart so it took closer to 5 minutes for them to pass.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l58nWIvyYs0[/ame]
 

bordercollie

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Be Prepared

I hope everyone is already prepared for some hard times. We mostly know how foolish some people act when things go south. Keep water and dried food stored. some paper products and meds too ..some lead....We don't know how bad things will get with any possible calamity but it is good to be ready for it . I started preparing a few years ago and am still working on it.
I will also mention that the gas pump is one place that I would at least use a paper towel to hold the pump handle if you don't have a glove. If not, those germs spread from there to the steering wheel ,to your face to a loved one etc...
Above all things be ready in your faith .
 

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I was outside last night and as normal, I look at the skies. Saw a few satellites then something really got me going. A fast moving object with another in the same path at the same speed. Then more and more. (I'd guess 60 or so). Freaked me out a bit.

An internet search this morning found the answer quickly. SpaceX has been deploying satellites in what is called a "Starlink chain". Awesome to see in the sky.

This site shows their current location. You can set your area then click "Predict Passes" and it'll show you when they're going overhead.
https://www.satflare.com/track.asp?q=StarLink3#TOP

Here's a 1-minute video to show you'll see. When I saw them last night, they were farther apart so it took closer to 5 minutes for them to pass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l58nWIvyYs0


looks like morse code
 

aurthuritis

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I hope everyone is already prepared for some hard times. We mostly know how foolish some people act when things go south. Keep water and dried food stored. some paper products and meds too ..some lead....We don't know how bad things will get with any possible calamity but it is good to be ready for it . I started preparing a few years ago and am still working on it.
I will also mention that the gas pump is one place that I would at least use a paper towel to hold the pump handle if you don't have a glove. If not, those germs spread from there to the steering wheel ,to your face to a loved one etc...
Above all things be ready in your faith .

looks like the debt bubble is collapsing. hold on tight:myopinion:
 

bordercollie

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He shoulda drank a corona light with a slice of lime. I'd recommend a recliner and fresh batteries in the remote as well.
 

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I gave up Corona and switched to Tecate.

My customary Corona with dinner was giving me a hangover the next morning. (Budweiser too). I apparently don't filter the noxious stuff well.

Tecate seems to be more pure, no effect the next day.
 

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Things were somewhat bad at the beginning of the week. Mrs. Zoom just got back a few minutes ago and things are pretty much back to normal. Shelves are full but store policy has item limits on the high demand items.
 

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PLEASE READ: FROM AN IMMUNOLOGIST
AT JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SO INFORMATIVE!!!!!

This is exactly what the public should be hearing maybe, just maybe, they can see how bad this is:
Here is a little more information on the virus that may help explain a few things that people don’t understand. This is from an immunologist at Johns Hopkins University.
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Feeling confused as to why Coronavirus is a bigger deal than Seasonal flu? Here it is in a nutshell. I hope this helps. Feel free to share this to others who don’t understand...
It has to do with RNA sequencing.... I.e. genetics.
Seasonal flu is an “all human virus”. The DNA/RNA chains that make up the virus are recognized by the human immune system. This means that your body has some immunity to it before it comes around each year... you get immunity two ways...through exposure to a virus, or by getting a flu shot.
Novel viruses, come from animals.... the WHO tracks novel viruses in animals, (sometimes for years watching for mutations). Usually these viruses only transfer from animal to animal (pigs in the case of H1N1) (birds in the case of the Spanish flu). But once, one of these animal viruses mutates, and starts to transfer from animals to humans... then it’s a problem, Why? Because we have no natural or acquired immunity.. the RNA sequencing of the genes inside the virus isn’t human, and the human immune system doesn’t recognize it so, we can’t fight it off.
Now.... sometimes, the mutation only allows transfer from animal to human, for years it’s only transmission is from an infected animal to a human before it finally mutates so that it can now transfer human to human... once that happens..we have a new contagion phase. And depending on the fashion of this new mutation, thats what decides how contagious, or how deadly it’s gonna be..
H1N1 was deadly....but it did not mutate in a way that was as deadly as the Spanish flu. It’s RNA was slower to mutate and it attacked its host differently, too.
Fast forward.
Now, here comes this Coronavirus... it existed in animals only, for nobody knows how long...but one day, at an animal market, in Wuhan China, in December 2019, it mutated and made the jump from animal to people. At first, only animals could give it to a person... But here is the scary part.... in just TWO WEEKS it mutated again and gained the ability to jump from human to human. Scientists call this quick ability, “slippery”
This Coronavirus, not being in any form a “human” virus (whereas we would all have some natural or acquired immunity). Took off like a rocket. And this was because, Humans have no known immunity...doctors have no known medicines for it.
And it just so happens that this particular mutated animal virus, changed itself in such a way the way that it causes great damage to human lungs..
That’s why Coronavirus is different from seasonal flu, or H1N1 or any other type of influenza.... this one is slippery AF. And it’s a lung eater...And, it’s already mutated AGAIN, so that we now have two strains to deal with, strain s, and strain L....which makes it twice as hard to develop a vaccine.
We really have no tools in our shed, with this. History has shown that fast and immediate closings of public places has helped in the past pandemics. Philadelphia and Baltimore were reluctant to close events in 1918 and they were the hardest hit in the US during the Spanish Flu.
Factoid: Henry VIII stayed in his room and allowed no one near him, till the Black Plague passed...(honestly...I understand him so much better now). Just like us, he had no tools in his shed, except social isolation...
And let me end by saying....right now it’s hitting older folks harder... but this genome is so slippery...if it mutates again (and it will). Who is to say, what it will do next.
Be smart folks... acting like you’re unafraid is so not sexy right now.
#flattenthecurve. Stay home folks... and share this to those that just are not catching on.

I Pray for all Americans ???
 

bordercollie

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Thank you Doc !! Everyone pay heed. This is for real. Avoid close contact hopefully stay home and Pray !!
 
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