Conrail 1985???

[asciibaron]

where is the progress on this layout?  you built the benchwork, now what?

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Now I'm waiting for the basement to dry out so I can cover it in the recently acquired styrofoam.

[asciibaron]

Now I'm waiting for the basement to dry out so I can cover it in the recently acquired styrofoam.

do you have enough code 55 flex track?  the curved turnouts are available now.

[davefoxx]

Now I'm waiting for the basement to dry out so I can cover it in the recently acquired styrofoam.

Ed,

I didn't know that you had problems with a wet basement.  I guess I assumed after seeing the wood paneling in your pictures that it must be dry or the paneling would be in poor shape.  Do you have flooding and/or humidity problems?

Dave

[Mark5]

Do you have flooding and/or humidity problems?

Dave

I was about to ask the same.

Mark

[tom mann]

Last week Thursday, the Baltimore/Washington region had more rain than I can remember. 

[Mark5]

hehe, you don't remember Agnes.

[tom mann]

hehe, you don't remember Agnes.

Well, more rain for a non-tropical weather disturbance then!

[asciibaron]

my suggestion is to model a car float operation  ;D

[sirenwerks]

About all I remember from Agnes were the caskets floating down the Occoquan. I didn't live in Ellicott City then to experience the devastation there first hand.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Now I'm waiting for the basement to dry out so I can cover it in the recently acquired styrofoam.

Ed,

I didn't know that you had problems with a wet basement.  I guess I assumed after seeing the wood paneling in your pictures that it must be dry or the paneling would be in poor shape.  Do you have flooding and/or humidity problems?

Dave

Well, we didn't have water problems, but I think the blizzard hosed up my gutters, resulting in us taking on some water in the front corner. We're having someone taking a look at it, but with the rain we were getting (I think) over the first part of this week, it might be kinda crazy down there when we get home on Saturday (we're at the beach in NC at the moment).

[SquirrelHollow]

About all I remember from Agnes were the caskets floating down the Occoquan. I didn't live in Ellicott City then to experience the devastation there first hand.

The 1983 Salt Lake City flood was the last straw for rogue caskets in Utah.  Concrete burial vaults were already required in most cemeteries, but the '83 floods made it a 100% affair.  There were enough floating caskets that the state started a program to exhume non-compliant burials, and rebury them in vaults (starting with the most vulnerable locations first, of course).


Good luck letting your basement dry.  There's more weather on the way.  If you're lucky, it might dump everything before it hits the east coast.  I live about 20 miles south of SLC, and we had a forecast of a 20% chance of 0.03" of rain today.  My rain gauge disagrees.  So far: it's reading 1.9 inches; I have 4 inches of standing water in my back yard; an inch of driving rain has to be squeegeed back under my garage door every 30 minutes or so; and we appear to have 6 to 8 inches of water flowing down my street.  It sure is a lot of rapidly deposited, unexpected water, for living in the middle of the #$%^@#& desert.

[Puddington]

Been flooded twice in ten years - first time over two feet of grey water - cost me a layout; second time slightly less water; cost me my sainity..........I feel for you..... :-\

[Iain]

(we're at the beach in NC at the moment).

I still say we should meet up.

[wm3798]

I spent a Saturday two weeks ago installing a new sump pump in my basement (took about 15 minutes) and pointing up the mortar in the brick wall down there (about all fookin day).  The new pump works great, and I've discovered that the water that floods in comes from around the water main.  Off to the hardware this weekend for some hydraulic cement to pack into the pipe collar....

And Iain, Ed didn't drive 800 miles to see you. 

You may no resume your regularly scheduled rant.

Lee