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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 29,748
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    From what I've heard if you wait long enough mother nature may give you a free basement in flordia
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 8,265
    edited December 2025
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    skipshot12 wrote: »
    Back to basements...

    Pretty sure there were zero basements where we lived in S.E. Florida.

    Yeah, the groundwater is usually only a foot or two below surface. It would be an engineering feat to keep a basement de-watered in SE FL. Heck, most new builds are on stilts...at least if they are anywhere near the coast.
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  • skipshot12
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    In Naples, when they build built-in swimming pools, they had to use Well Points to dry the ground.
    Then they would screw/drive in anchors, with straps, tied into the built-in pools to keep them from floating out of the ground.
    They did have several that floated up when the pool's were drained because the Maroons that built them never strapped them down.

    The average above seal level height in Naples is somewhere around 3'.
    We'd hit water when digging at most about 8"-12". Near the beach... not worth mentioning.
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  • skrol
    skrol Posts: 3,493
    edited January 2
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    A cowworker from Roswell New Mexico told me that hardly any homes had basements. The ground was very stable and hard so they were not needed (no frost lime issues) and it was cheaper to build out than to dig basements. They were also more succeptable to flooding since the water didn't absorb into the ground very well and you weren't going to really hide there form the aliens there anyway.
    Stan

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  • daddyjt
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    “Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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  • daddyjt
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    “Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    This day in history...
    55021229458_d9e04607b0_b.jpgBIOD #734 - Duck Eats Yeast and Explodes - Wait What - January 3, 1910 by Johnny El-Rady, on Flickr
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  • maxward
    maxward Posts: 1,742
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    Believe it or not…
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 6,079
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    Only in Iowa would a newspaper have so many misspellings.
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    Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)

    There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus
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  • Jetmaker737
    Jetmaker737 Posts: 1,149
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    bcwsrt wrote: »
    Written by a graduate of Quality Learing Center.

    Generously funded by US taxpayers.
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  • TEAforONE
    TEAforONE Posts: 1,101
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    I lear something new every day
    See my profile for list of gear.
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  • skipshot12
    skipshot12 Posts: 2,154
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    ^Bahahaaaaa....
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    ^^^ that's a pretty foxy-looking wolf. ;)
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  • SeleniumFalcon
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  • SeleniumFalcon
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    I forgot to mention that was a photograph taken from a "for sale" ad. I wonder what the front looks like if this was the best shot.
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  • mhardy6647
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  • skipshot12
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    seen @ hifihaven.org
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  • jdjohn
    jdjohn Posts: 3,443
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    daddyjt wrote: »
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    Man, did I have a crush on that Mrs. Hart back-in-the-day <3
    "This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
    "Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    ^^^ Stefanie Powers.
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    Just looked her up: 83 years old.
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  • jdjohn
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »
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    My wife would buy some of her own accord, and have drank half of it before getting back to the car.
    "This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
    "Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
    Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon
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  • aprazer402
    aprazer402 Posts: 3,463
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    Another trailer hitch image. What, no chains!
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  • F1nut
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    Moron
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  • agfrost
    agfrost Posts: 2,497
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    aprazer402 wrote: »
    Another trailer hitch image. What, no chains!

    Trailer light harness has a locking plug. No chains needed.
    Jay
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  • motorstereo
    motorstereo Posts: 2,427
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    By the looks of that old F150 it's not it's first time.
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