Speaking of rumbling freight train sounds, jfc that explosion in Beirut! The vids all over twitter are bone chilling

Yes, God bless Jesus. And his dick.


Wishing you the best in resolution, 27.

Thanks buddy

lol

Wow Rexx, I was actually dreading having to say thank you to you when I first started scrolling down, but now I'll probably just exile you.

Jesus, what a miserable shrew.

Wow that is amazing

Wow 27o that's a serious amount of tree! About 5 years ago, I had a smaller version of that branch break and hit a wrought iron fence in my backyard. It smashed the fence flat. It basically put a giant 'U' in the fence line.

Watch the Beirut footage. It's like a small nuke going off. Officials claim it was 2500 tons of ammonium nitrate that had been stored there for six years. By way of comparison, Mcveigh blew up a federal building with two tons of the stuff.

Those videos are incredible. Pretty nuts to have all that ammonium nitrate sitting there for years.

Call me a conspiratard, but I'm open to the idea that it wasn't ammonium nitrate. I don't yet have any basis to believe otherwise, but I'm likewise not yet prepared to take the word of a Lebanese government official for granted.

Sarcasm at its finest! Well played.

I understand that. I thought the same but there seems to be a pretty good trail back talking about how it came to be there.

That was an interesting rabbit hole. The Russian-flagged ship was taking ammonium nitrate to Mozambique, suffered technical problems, and sailed into Beirut. Port officials wouldn't let it sail again and the owners abandoned it, apparently because the cost of repair was more than the value of the ship and cargo. Part of the crew was not permitted to leave the ship and a Beirut law firm sued Lebanese authorities to free the crew; that suit was successful and the cargo was then unloaded to an adjacent warehouse where it sat since despite some efforts to remove it. Some number of officials were well aware of how dangerous ammonium nitrate is, but left it stored near fireworks. So the ammonium nitrate story checks out.

Beirut is supposed to be a beautiful place, but has been racked by civil war, incompetent government, and religious strife -- and now this. A quarter of a million homeless and the port is destroyed. WTF.

Likewise baseless, but if it was there unprotected for 6 years, it was only a matter of time before some enemy could basically decide to blow up all of Beirut in one fell swoop.

Given that video, I'd have thought the death toll would have been higher.

This.

Could have been worse obviously, but you're probably going to find a bunch of stuff bent and bruised when you get all that removed. You're going to have a mess inside and outside for a little while I imagine. Good luck with it.

ETA: I'm always amazed at the weight of even "small" limbs.

Caution: contains southern rock

27,

Wow, glad to hear everyone was out of harm's way. GL dealing with the insurance company, hopefully it won't be a major PITA & they won't lowball you.

Thanks gold. Talked to the adjuster on the phone today and he sounded like your typical hair-across-his-ass adjuster that will try to lowball me. Tried to talk me into having tree guys take tree off my house before he even did a site visit. Lol no thanks dude, A for effort though, you jackel.

DBT are criminally underrated, such a solid group of rockers. I shared a flask of 1942 with Patterson at one of his solo shows.

Imma total fanboi. DBT (per Spotify) are my 2019 and 2010's Band Of the Year and Decade.

A 'your band' thread sounds pretty cool. Writeups on why with stories, favorite songs, deep dives etc.

want to get some opinions....

Me and the GF have been renting the same house for close to 7 years now. We were on a lease the first year, but we've been month to month ever since. Everything is handled through a property management company, we've never had any contact with the owners.

Middle of July we got an email that the owners want to sell and we have to be out by Aug 31st. The market right now is ****ing crazy, rentals are going as soon as they are listed, and I honestly have no idea how, because not a single realtor has returned my calls, and they have to be going site unseen, because multiple still have people living in them and you couldn't even schedule a walkthrough till after they moved out, but they are pulled and listed as rented before then.

Now we are kind of picky, I'm sure we could find something if we widened our search or if we absolutely had to, it just would be in an area of town we don't want to live in or someplace we don't really like. We also aren't hurting directly because of Corona, niether of us are sick nor in danger of losing our income. So while it's annoying as **** that we are getting booted in the middle of the pandemic in the middle of the summer in Phoenix, it aint our house and the owners can do whatever the eff they want.

But I have several people telling me I'm being dumb, that since they can't evict us if we can't find something we like we shouldn't move out. I've even had a couple people tell me that the owner should be offering us some kind of financial incentive to vacate and that that's the standard practice and that they are taking advantage of us. That seems absurd to me, and since we havent been directly affected it doesn't seem fair to take advantage of the no eviction......but everyone I've told about our situation seems to feel differently. Am I being naive? Should we be taking advantage of the situation since it would help me us out considerably? Do we have some rights as a renter we're foolishly choosing to ignore?

You’d have some rights if you had a lease. Dangers of month to month.

I’m pretty sure though that the moratorium on evictions in AZ are for those who can document a Covid related hardship. IANAL, but I doubt you would be protected.