So we live in a little older neighborhood in Seattle. Our house was built in the 1930s. The neighborhood still has power lines running from houses to poles. lots and lots of power lines running all over the place. Well today, my stuff arrived from Minnesota. They showed up with an 18 wheeler with my 600 cubic feet of stuff.
Well long story short, a few years ago they did some repairs on the lines coming to the house. They did not have the proper supplies so they put it up in a temporary manner. Never came back. Well perhaps you can guess what happened? The lines were not high enough and the semi pulled them off the house as they were backing up toward our house.
Fortunately the power was fine. There was enough slack and it just pulled it so it was almost blocking the street. The city power company was out to fix it within an hour. Unfortunately Centurylink had tied their lines to the power line and that line snapped in two, leaving without internet. Lucky for us we both have mobile hotspots, because that will be out till Tuesday.
I don't recall the last house I lived in that did not have their lines buried. But doing so here would be a huge undertaking.
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I grew up in Rapid City and my parents house had the same electrical power supply.
Enjoy upgrading it
Bonney Lake, Washington.
Roger's new home.
I had to repair power lines from the line behind the hose without underground lines.
15 years or so and it was about $1,000.
I also had to change the electrical panel.
The original panel had fuses. You can't find fuses anymore. I replaced it with breakers in a new panel. When the breaker trips off you just push it on.
I have worked on almost everything, except electrics because you can get shocked and again and again
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So Gen Milley has been caught lying yo the country yet again. That stone strike he called a righteous strike was anything but. It was an aid worker and a bunch of children with jugs of water.
This administration is the most lying, incompetent, untransparent in history. And it concerns me that dems still defend this disaster of a general Milley, both to mention our senile president.
Damn auto correct
I’m disappointed that you’ve succumbed to the mob attacking Joe Biden’s decisions to get us out Afghanistan quickly.
The unpleasant truth is that there was never any chance for a “happily ever after” scenario in Afghanistan. President Bush squandered that chance when he ordered most of our troops out of Afghanistan to search for WMDs in Iraq, and Trump cemented it 20 years later when he signed the peace deal with the Taliban handing over Afghanistan to the Taliban and returning thousands of their solders in exchange for their agreement not to target American soldiers. By the time Biden made his decision, there were no good options for an orderly evacuation, especially with the Taliban steadily advancing on Kabul.
Biden’s menu for extraction consisted of only two realistic choices. Both required a leap of faith. The one he chose required the Afghan army to be able to hold out for at least three months in order for the US civilian and military bureaucracy to work around the extremely hostile refugee requirements imposed by the Trump administration. A much larger leap required the Afghan army to hold out long enough to negotiate a comprehensive settlement. Given that the Afghan army was three times the size of Taliban’s and better armed, it was reasonable for Biden to believe they could hold out for a couple of months. After all, we spent billions of dollars training them and decades touting their skill and courage.
Unfortunately, the Afghan army was even more corrupt and cynical than imagined. Its sudden collapse and the flight of their president forcefully demonstrated that Afghanistan was a house of cards, resting on a phony army and corrupt government, ready to collapse at the first hint we were leaving. The notion that we could have left secretly is the same type of magical thinking that pervaded our missions in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. The only other option was to redeploy several thousand American troops, but this violated the terms of Trump’s agreement and triggered a new set of risks.
At least for now the Taliban are honoring their end of the bargain. They have not attacked US soldiers and planes. The tragic attack that killed 13 American soldiers was engineered by a branch of Al Qaeda, an enemy of the Taliban. The Taliban have also allowed any Americans wishing to leave to do so, and it is likely all US citizens wishing to leave will be able to return home. The Taliban have also allowed almost 100,000 Afghans to leave, many of whom fought against them in various ways. If American soldiers had reentered the fight, this cooperation would have vanished. If even one plane were shot down, imagine the loss of life and the desire for revenge, leading to more death.
Certainly, Afghan women again are not being treated well. The Taliban government is a religious theocracy allowing little dissent, and there continue to be acts of extreme brutality. But are Taliban’s actions any worse than those of our close ally, Saudi Arabia? Worse than some of our own unholy acts in pursuit of the War on Terror?
What is particularly tragic is that Biden is taking the hit for our collective failure and guilt, the one president who had the courage to end a failed and costly war.
😂You can't find fuses anymore.🤣
Always wrong Roger strikes again.
Yes, fuses are still made and used in the USA.
They did not have the proper supplies so they put it up in a temporary manner. Never came back.
Look for, the Union label...
Getting put is not the incompetence. It's how it was done that is historically poor. This has been explained many times. It's also 5be lying, the deception, the double standards,the finger pointing, the unwillingness to take any responsibility.
er you don't see this every day!
So we live in a little older neighborhood in Seattle. Our house was built in the 1930s. The neighborhood still has power lines running from houses to poles
This is what happens when the little head is in charge of the big head!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
With disasters, problems and scandals swirling all around him, Biden goes off to Rehobeth for another beach vacation. Good dried.
As CHT gets settled in his new place .
Alky, did you buy.your new home in Bonney Lake, Washington, like you told us all you were going to do?
Funny how the ball less wonder never complained about trump playing golf or staying in his resorts......BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
Roger is the board dunce 20 years in a row.
😂You can't find fuses anymore.🤣
Always wrong Roger strikes again.
Yes, fuses are still made and used in the USA.
Denny- our house in Seattle is worth almost a half million dollars. It's older, but it has character and won't be knocked down by any storms.
I guess leave it to someone with a toddler brain to believe actually living with your wife is thinking with your "little head".
CenturyLink landline ...
My condolences. Got that here, too. I've lost my internet connection at least 4 times this summer after heavy rains.
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