It's still pretty bad in a few areas. My neighborhood was at the edge of one of the twisters. The damage is incredible. Fortunately, we didn't have any major damage to the house. Unfortunately, we're still running under a boil advisory (I have an electric range, dangit) and power hasn't been restored. It's wild how localized the effects of the tornado seem to be. Drive a half-mile one direction and everything is destroyed. Go the other direction and it doesn't look like there was even a storm.
Check on the boil advisory, large parts of the area just got pulled off at 10am. Also, the Dayton Crew and FCC supporters groups are holding fundraisers and supply drives this week (We are doing a bake sale at Mega-Tailgate, they are doing a supply and fundraising drive at their watch party) so be on the lookout for us this weekend. Finally, the Nordecke and Bailey full groups are doing fundraisers online as well. If anyone in the Dayton area needs anything let me know. I was lucky enough to miss most of the wind (I live by UD) and kept power. I also have a job that is nice enough to understand if I need to run supplies to someone they allow it.
I dunno, she seemed to have some fun with Queen of Martyrs. Although, the Mary statue is still standing... Here's the before: I forgot how big that tower was.
Nothing too out of the ordinary in the responses. Might try to drop some dynamite in the pond and post an agreement or something.
Be my guest, I'm about to go sit at a doctor for two hours so I'll need the continued entertainment. (did you see the response about making goals worth 3 points and giving players an option to go for goal against the keeper or kick a "field goal'? what the actual f*ck?!)
You could add bleach to the water, then. You can overdose it with up to a teaspoon or so per gallon. This should do a good job of disinfecting the water for use over a short period of time. Water plants used to use chlorine gas as a disinfectant. The reaction of chlorine with water makes hypochlorite ion, the disinfectant and ingredient in bleach. Not sure what they are doing now. Chlorine tended to form by products that could harm you over years of exposure. But, chlorine had the benefit of maintaining a residual, which meant to would work as a disinfectant for days after leaving the plant. In distribution, there is about 1 part per million (ppm) of chlorine. The recipe above would probably get you over 50 ppm. Should not harm you short term, but should be more than enough to kill any nasty germs lurking in the system. Alternatively, head to Kroger and buy water. Edit - I forgot to mention, make sure it's chlorine bleach. Should be just over 5% - I think 5.25% sodium hypochlorite.
The chlorine area is my least favorite part of a water treatment plant. That is one nasty and dangerous chemical. UV and ozone are becoming more popular, at least with a lot of our clients.
Part of the 2.5% of DP&L customers that still don't have power and the sliver of the city without potable water. Momma always said I was special. I'm fine without the power; it's the kids wasting so many bottles of water that's annoying me.
Unlike UV and ozone, adding a little chlorine bleach to disinfect drinking water doesn't require electricity. We are talking about situations where you can't rely on the available water supply, and you don't want to get dysentery or other water borne disease. I'd also say that most city drinking water supplies use chlorine or chloramine, and are safe. That wouldn't be the case with either UV or ozone. I'm imagining your clients aren't municipal drinking water supplies. Ozone and UV are great where you just want to kill pathogens, but don't care about residual disinfectant. Wastewater treatment and fish tanks come to mind. Point of use as well.
You mentioned you weren't sure what they were doing now; I didn't know if you meant Dayton's plants currently or plants in general so I was just noting what I've been seeing lately with a lot of our clients. And, yeah, that's always an interesting conversation with operators, especially with smaller clients who are often short-staffed and are usually deciding which is the lesser hassle. I work almost exclusively with municipalities with a few private clients mixed in occasionally. It just depends on the client, but we've been using UV and ozone more often. Locally, Columbus is adding UV to two of its water treatment plants. True...moving to UV at wastewater treatment plants is another nice way to get rid of the chlorination equipment. Have I mentioned I'm not a fan of chlorine?
Well *all* chemicals can be dangerous given the right conditions.... See this article about the dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide
I used to be in the high integrity instrumentation valve and fitting business. Our stuff was far and away the most expensive gear of it's kind. Purchasing Agents were our mortal enemies, but Engineers adored us. And PA's are the scum of the Earth, so we didn't mind. Anyway, we could and did sell stuff in any machinable material. We regularly quoted parts made out of alloys I had never heard of, used for some arcane and insanely dangerous shit that would eat through everything. But the designers and engineers never worried about that stuff. They knew perfectly well that whatever it is they wanted to use, no matter how nasty or corrosive or unstable, didn't matter. There was always a way to handle it. And if you asked any of them, chemical engineers out on the cutting edge, what the nastiest, foulest, most difficult to deal with medium they had to design for, 100% of them would answer "water". That shit is something else.
Anyone here going to the gear sale, or does someone potentially want my ticket to go? I'd give my ticket away in exchange for someone to potentially purchase a yellow kit for me. I'd pay for the jersey. Just don't think I'll have time to make it down to Mapfre tonight.
Guess who the first person in line is. There's four others in line with him. 3:52... There's about 10 people in line. 4:30... There's about 10 people in the legacy club line (whoever knew that was still a thing?) and maybe 15-20 in the regular line.