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"jonathan" wrote:

Yup. You've learned half of a valuable lesson. The way
I do things is live as if I had no power and start to create
habits that allow the absence. This causes an emotional
jacket so that denial will not happen. At the moment,
I'm trying to find an opener that can be screwed to the wall
since my hands are becoming too weak to use one of those
hand openers.


JMF--

http://www.kitchenfantasy.com/shoppi...canopener.html

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?v=glance&n=28
4507&v=glance

I can get them in the housewares aisle of the local grocery store, but
that may be because Swing-Away is a St. Louis company.

hope this helps. I've got decent hand strength, but am left-handed, and
though I can use the handgrip type that looks sort of like a weird
sissors, the pocket gismos for 75 cents are beyond me, too. My grandma
had one of these wallmount types and it was a delight to use. Hers had a
magnet to catch the lid, and a wastecan below to collect them.

I found a store here. They have them in inventory but not on
the shelves because nobody bought one in 10 years. They are
going to pull one for me. When I was young we had one of those
wall mounted ones which is what I've been looking for. This
store also had the only glass cleaner that will really clean
glass and is the only store that still sells straw brooms with
a wooden handle.

/BAH

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Yup. You've learned half of a valuable lesson. The way
I do things is live as if I had no power and start to create
habits that allow the absence. This causes an emotional
jacket so that denial will not happen. At the moment,
I'm trying to find an opener that can be screwed to the wall
since my hands are becoming too weak to use one of those
hand openers.


Black and decker makes a battery powered can opener.

I am also trying to eliminate anything that is battery
powered. Batteries do not last long in this house.
In addition, batteries are too damned expensive.



But it's rechargable!

This still makes eating dependent on a supply of electricity
which is what started your tales of woe. There is also a
limit to use of rechargable batteries.

/BAH

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Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:

One place my dad wanted to build a house on spec they town was insisting
the
little creek be crossed with a bridge that would survive a 100 year
storm.
This greatly drove up the cost of building it for a 20 year storm.

That town's tax role didn't go up by one house that year....



We have an island at our reservoir (at least it used to be an island;
silting has tuned it into a peninsula) that used to be reached by both a
metal bridge for car traffic and a wooden pedestrian bridge.
The pedestrian bridge look nice; it also floated away nice during a
flood. :-)

Family rented a house years ago. Back yard sloped down steeply to a small
creek (small as in 2-4" deep at deepest most times).

Field behind that was almost perfectly flat.

One spring the rains came.

Whyen the raging creek first got over the far bank it flooded the field
about 400' across. Most of that was only 2-3" deep.

Meanwhile though the water continuted to rise. We realized our footbridge
was in danger. We tied it off to a big tree. Just then some friends showed
up. Went to the front of the house to say hi. 5 minutes later go back..
bridge is bobbing in the water, fortunately not floating away because of our
just in time action.




Pat

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"Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" wrote:

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:

One place my dad wanted to build a house on spec they town was insisting
the
little creek be crossed with a bridge that would survive a 100 year
storm.
This greatly drove up the cost of building it for a 20 year storm.

That town's tax role didn't go up by one house that year....



We have an island at our reservoir (at least it used to be an island;
silting has tuned it into a peninsula) that used to be reached by both a
metal bridge for car traffic and a wooden pedestrian bridge.
The pedestrian bridge look nice; it also floated away nice during a
flood. :-)

Family rented a house years ago. Back yard sloped down steeply to a small
creek (small as in 2-4" deep at deepest most times).

Field behind that was almost perfectly flat.

One spring the rains came.

Whyen the raging creek first got over the far bank it flooded the field
about 400' across. Most of that was only 2-3" deep.

Meanwhile though the water continuted to rise. We realized our footbridge
was in danger. We tied it off to a big tree. Just then some friends showed
up. Went to the front of the house to say hi. 5 minutes later go back..
bridge is bobbing in the water, fortunately not floating away because of our
just in time action.

I grew up right next to a river. Part of living habits was tying
the dock to a tree and screwing a 3 foot pipe into the basement drains
so that the rising river didn't fill the basement.
When you live by water there simply work that has to be done
to prevent messes. This is true in any location. I'm getting
more and more amazed at people who assume that "somebody else"
is supposed to do the work and the government has to pay for it.

/BAH

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I grew up right next to a river. Part of living habits was tying
the dock to a tree and screwing a 3 foot pipe into the basement drains
so that the rising river didn't fill the basement.
When you live by water there simply work that has to be done
to prevent messes. This is true in any location. I'm getting
more and more amazed at people who assume that "somebody else"
is supposed to do the work and the government has to pay for it.

Well, in this specific case our flood probably WAS a 100 year flood. So
your 3' pipe would probably need to be 6'.

Then there's the time I biked through a flooded creek.



/BAH

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I grew up right next to a river. Part of living habits was tying
the dock to a tree and screwing a 3 foot pipe into the basement drains
so that the rising river didn't fill the basement.
When you live by water there simply work that has to be done
to prevent messes. This is true in any location. I'm getting
more and more amazed at people who assume that "somebody else"
is supposed to do the work and the government has to pay for it.

Well, in this specific case our flood probably WAS a 100 year flood. So
your 3' pipe would probably need to be 6'.

Probably not, but there were extension pipes setting around just
in case. Note that the house is, I'd say, 10' above the
normal river level...well, not now since the Lakes are a lot
lower. I can remember the river covering the driveway by
the road during the spring melts.

Then there's the time I biked through a flooded creek.


Did you ever do that again ? :-))

/BAH

Actually, if one uses a Poisson process to model the occurrence of such
things, (which is very natural), a 1% chance of an event occurring evrey
year _yields_ a mean of 1 such storm in a hundred years.

"Jo Schaper" wrote in message
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"Once in a hundred years" is just the layman's term for a storm having a
1% chance of happening, based on available data and their statistical
graph.

We had two "once in a hundred years" level floods here in 1993--One in
June and one in November. That phrase is essentially meaningless. One
should use the 1% chance terminology instead, and relate it to actual
rainfall, or river level, or water volume or whatever.

Dave Brown wrote:

Actually, if one uses a Poisson process to model the occurrence of such
things, (which is very natural), a 1% chance of an event occurring evrey
year _yields_ a mean of 1 such storm in a hundred years.


This is in theory. I prefer actual statistics to models, especially on
things like floods, which have a substantial record of occurrence, with
reliable data of depth, velocity, volume, and so forth.