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Toxicanadian's avatar

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Omg. It took FOREVER

And Gawd forbid if the old man caught ya dialing backwards hard after each forward dial! 🤣

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Karafree's avatar

I still remember Jenny's number! I still remember all my friends numbers from way back when... Now I don't even know a single number in my contacts list today, now it's just an icon on my phone.

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

"Hello?"

"Hi."

"Is everything OK?"

"Yeah, just hit the wrong speed dial."

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Karafree's avatar

butt dialing!

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artermix's avatar

same…but I remember my old phone number from when I was 10 years old!!!!

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Gwyneth's avatar

I thought she was a buxom brunette. (How's that for politically correct?)

https://carnacsguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/star-trek-uhura.jpg

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

you got me!

I completely forgot about the predictive programming priming with the landsat satellite hanging out of our Swahili's ear!

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Heather B's avatar

OMG, the baby with the gun in its diaper! 😂😂😂

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

My kinda family.

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Karafree's avatar

I laughed so hard!!! those memes!!! I know you love them!

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artermix's avatar

ha ha ha…..I loved it too!

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DLiteful's avatar

I have a cerealist question and I value your opinion so I’m asking.

Due to the placement of my home, I cannot put in a well that can be used instead of city water.

I can however put in a pump well farther out on my property for WTSHTF and have gotten one quote so far.

Is it even worth the money to do this?

Being in hell I know resistance is futile, BUTT, I have a hard time twiddling my thumbs doing nothing.

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

We can discuss this in the comments or offline - it doesn't matter to me.

The questions to ask are:

Is it a shallow water table or a deep one?

Is the location able to be protected against vandalism?

Is this only for emergencies? or can you use it for other applications?

If other uses then would you intend to have a submersible pump?

If you have an electric pump would it be city power or a solar panel?

If neither are you willing to pay <$1000 to $4000+ just for a hand-pump system?

(without installation charges if you don't do that kind of workk yourself).

Do you have a water filtration system for your current supply?

etc., etc., etc.,.....

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DLiteful's avatar

The quote is for a 100’ drill down, for drinkable water.

No vandalism worries.

Emergency only but the cost is 10k because it’s a regular truck/machine bore well.

It can be used for other applications and we eventually would like to put a shop out on the property near the well.

So it could potentially be hooked up to that but not any time soon since the well will cost as much as a shop does.

At that time an electric pump with solar panel back up would be installed.

Currently we have a non salt springwell water filtration system for the city water into the house.

I keep going back and forth.

Yes no yes no.

Then, I am like, why bother if I am gonna get government whacked in a few years anyway. 😬😂

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

That's an insane price. I've been out of the market for a while.

The other alternative is to store and restock through using it, containers of water. There are like 150 gallon polypropylene tanks for just the purpose. The problem is keeping it from going bad during storage.

Great to see you have a positive outlook on the future.

Our fate is set, I just wonder how many of them will drop when the try it.

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artermix's avatar

here in PA is 14K for drilling. And if water is not found you are fucked. So basically it is 14K per drilling I gather.

I bought (water)dowsers rods for fun. I know sounds like bat shit crazy. Some water drilling companies still use people who can use dowsers. I practiced on them around my house. But wait…..I have public sewer water!!…..

Also do you have to get the water analyzed for impurities like mines wastewater??

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

OK. That's an insaner price.

For something that should not be meddled with = govern mente telling people what they can and can't do. Some of the most dangerous idiots out there are wellmen.

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artermix's avatar

this is actually a very interesting topic. I do not live in a country setting but city burbs like…..I could drill for water too I guess….but the cost are prohibitive to be disconnected fro the public water supply. Also there is a lot into getting the well water tested, drinkable etc no? Just the purifying system could be costly.

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Karafree's avatar

maybe this is me thinking nonsense. but they have those auger sets for hand drilling a well.

I have wanted to try it, but of course it's illegal to drill for water... but then I had this idea If I say it on line, WELL, then the secrets out but

my home is on a slab, what if I drilled through the slab and then used the auger inside, my city sits on a huge aquifer .. and I know we have a high water table because of the River... anyway, I imagine it wouldn't take too many pipe connections before I hit water.

here's a link to what I am talking about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm422bfrjws

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIKkSeltuGY

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Eric From PA's avatar

Before I started in Tela Kom, no one ever mentioned everything in this industry is back ass-wards and is negative 48 volts. So I accidentally burned up a few pieces of equipment. Woops!

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

I swear (and I know ALL of the woids) that the Yahoody way is to make EVERYTHING confused. The signal to noise ratio is given in a measurement that might be 20 decibels, but then you have to know that the reference is NEGATIVE 31 dB to star with....

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artermix's avatar

I started prepping too but it lasted about 6 months….then I begun thinking……wait a minute !!! All the prepped food can be taken from me by an asshole (or a group of assholes) who is branding a gun stolen from someone who was collecting weapons, who got stabbed at night.

I guess I will live eating lichens from rocks or “foraging”. Realistically I will possibly just eat whenever I find food and whatever I can get my hands on. Probably will die from scurvy or malnutrition. Knowing my luck, the starving will increase my life expectancy and give me more time in hell earth….during a time when and where being dead is just a good idea all around.

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

My God! Woman, you are dark!

I thought it was just me...

misery loves company.

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