Flood Season
- CoalHeat
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- Coal Size/Type: Rice and Chestnut
- Other Heating: Fisher Fireplace Insert
Pumps still running!!! Wet spots on the floor are drying up.
- SMITTY
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freetown fred wrote:SMITTY,we were worried about you w/ this new flooding--thought maybe you & your family were stranded in a jon boat headed down the Charles
I think the Jimmy would make a better anchor, now that you mention it .... And I wouldn't get within 40 miles of the Charles ... if I did, that would mean I would be closer to Boston! I want no part of that! If I somehow found myself in that sewer they call the Charles, I would make it a point to bring my smokey 2-stroke outboard & run it wide open through Cambridge!Hambden Bob wrote:I doubt it Fred...That damned Jimmy of Smitty's may have finally served a higher purpose. 1.) As an Anchor if chained to the garage floor. 2.) As a Life Raft if Gm didn't blow it on all the seals....
Swamp in the yard has disappeared, & the river in the basement is slowing. My basement will still be wet for the next month and a half, at least. With the stove ice cold it takes many weeks to dry out. The coal shovel & poker always have surface rust at the beginning of the winter.
- CoalHeat
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At least the Charles never caught fire, as far as I know...If I somehow found myself in that sewer they call the Charles,
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That was only what was floating on top that caught fire, you can only imagine whats mixed in with the mud on the bottom. Thats the only one that I know of that caught fire but most near any type of manufacturing plant were all used as dumping grounds.