It's a slug party,
and I've bought them all a beer
Let's invite them to come right over,
and have a great cheer
It was the cheapest beer they sell nearby
But for a party it will fly
The question is really,
Will they just get drunk, or die?
Our oldest ended up in the hospital due to a broken leg. The nature of the break required stabilization for transport to the hospital, which could not have been accomplished in a car seat, so we called 911 to get an ambulance. Later transferred by another ambulance ride to a nearby pediatric hospital.
@paulknightly Hey Paul, I'm really sorry that you've had to go through this with your family. I hope your kiddo has a speedy recovery and that PT goes well
My takeaway from this thread is that EMS is a critical service that should never be privatized. The shared cost for staffing an ambulance can be a lot for a community, but the alternative is far worse: profit at all costs rather than value of service
@ai6yr@paulknightly Utah is an anomaly when it comes to policies and statutes. Salt Lake is... Politically kaleidoscopic.
Legislatively capping fees is the only way I can see conditions improving for EMS costs. Maybe if we remove the incentive for free-for-all profit gouging, the less likely privatization would continue?
Southern Florida once again has "EXTREME" Heat Risk today 5/18/24.
Extreme - This level of rare and/or long-duration extreme heat with little to no overnight relief affects anyone without effective cooling and/or adequate hydration. Impacts likely in most health systems, heat-sensitive industries and infrastructure.
Mystery tree of the day. Maybe a shrub. Extremely popular with the pollinators. Blooms year round. Covered always with honeybees, carpenter bees, native bees, hummingbird, you name it. Neighbor (one that will talk to me, LOL) hates it and always tells me she wishes I would get rid of it. (Update: Almost certainly Grewia occidentalis, the Crossberry -- very useful plant, and edible!!!) #mystery
@ai6yr Is there like a BeeCraigslist ad for your backyard? "Now offering many modern amenities such as minimal pesticide use, 20 kinds of flower pollen, free smoke sessions and room service."
@ai6yr I was at a wildfire summit this week with #FEMA , they covered this disaster and highlighted the Maui County after action that any emergency management minded person should read:
The National Recovery Framework and adjacent policy was made for hurricanes, not fires. The good news is that federal agencies are revising and loosening restrictions for recovery from fire events.
You can ignore my griping of the day, but, yes, my passengers yesterday DID ask me: "How old is your car now?!?!" (I was driving theirs). Interpretation: "we're embarrassed that you are driving a 1999 4Runner which is losing paint" #gripe
Hmm, lady who freaked out the son's/family dog (walked up past him while he was doing his doggie business on his dog walk and caused him to snarl and fling poo everywhere) ended up in the hospital last night, transported by the dog's owner (the paramedic). Thus goes the small world here... 🤔
Now, to figure out which piece of clothing here is carrying around the poison oak oils, after washing off my arm with dish soap and taking an antihistamine...
@ai6yr Zest soap works really well, it's not oil-based so it seems to have an affinity for urushiol. I used to keep a case in my engine to hand out to handcrews doing brushwork in Southern OR and NorCal.
The biggest issues I have with spread was the vehicles, all it took was one person to spread some on a surface and the whole crew would get 'the Oak' in places the sun doesn't shine :O
@ai6yr There's a decent amount of analysis of thresholds that goes into a presidential disaster declaration, such as a per capital damage indicator assessed at both the county and state level. Events that have less emergent need than others often take longer for approvals. Disasters declarations for events that had major housing disruption and humanitarian missions will often take precedence over ones with shorter incident periods and less permanent infrastructure damage. Sometimes if events have a great enough impact they will be declared during the ongoing incident period to kick off direct federal aid (DFA) missions. 🎱
"We can wrap you in a full-body suit of neoprene, heat-resistant rubber. Or we can raise the temperature in Cosmo's office to 98.6 degrees - which is probably what we'll have to do, because the neoprene would suffocate you. "
@ai6yr@bud_t I had to seal the edges of my tiled shower about a year ago, thankfully it's still holding. The previous owner/their worker had sealed the edges with grout... Which cracked and failed spectacularly. That goop is no joke!
My colleagues and I finished assessing damages from the January 2024 Winter Ice and Wind #storms... Wow. Some municipalities saw 3-4" of ice accumulation over a few days and near total loss of their urban tree canopies. If you've been to western #Oregon You know there's a ton of trees :(
~60% of assessed damages were from public utility providers' electrical distribution systems. I'm envisioning a future of buried lines.
