My back yard would get and stay soggy after rain. I hired a landscaper to add fill and level it off a bit so it has a gentle slope towards the back and install an EZ Flow french drain.
The French drain was installed at the surface of the ground and some parts of surrounding insulating material show above the soil.
My landscaper is claiming that he installed it at the surface to allow for quick drainage of surface water and for additional top soil to be added above it within impeding water flow.
We were planning on adding a bit more soil towards the back behind the French drain, but if we were to do so with the way this has been installed, we would either have a hump in the middle of the yard or it would start sloping up towards the back instead of down.
It seems, especially as a type this out, that the landscaper is completely full of BS and simply doesn't want to come back out to fix the French drain, but I wanted to get opinions on here and see how best I should respond to the landscaper.
As far as I can see, the fix would require them to pull out the current french drain, dig a deeper ditch and probably also lower the drainage pipe that this French drain connected to.
If the pool didn't overflow during Charley, which dropped up to 4"-6" of rainfall, how is it an impervious surface?
Pools always lose some water due to evaporation and can always accept rainfall. They don't overflow and don't contribute to stormwater runoff.
And even if there was stormwater runoff from a pool, if the pool is surrounded by a pool deck of, say, 15' of pavers with sand in between, then the water would drop in there. If that couldn't take in the water, and the pavers are surrounded by 20'-50' of grass, then the stormwater would go there.
How can it be shown that a pool (and its surrounding pavers) is an impervious surface that contributes to stormwater runoff?
I’ve always considered having more water better, but I’ve seen some man made ponds that looked very nasty. Lots of algae, very silty, mosquitos and some funky smells.
I have a spot on the land that I think would make a good pond in a hollow where the natural slope funnels into it, sometimes called a key point dam. I was thinking I could also funnel the roof rain water down the hill into the pond. My area gets 64 inches of rain a year, but there is no stream/river in the property.
So any advice? How to make the pond not get funky or become a hassle? Anyone regret putting in a pond?
The propensity of water to form solutions and emulsions is useful in various washingprocesses. Washing is also an important component of several aspects of personal body hygiene. Most of personal water use is due to showering, doing the laundryand dishwashing, reaching hundreds of liters per day in developed countries.
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Sea water contains about 3.5% sodium chloride on average, plus smaller amounts of other substances. The physical properties of sea water differ from fresh water in some important respects. It freezes at a lower temperature (about −1.9 °C (28.6 °F)) and its density increases with decreasing temperature to the freezing point, instead of reaching maximum density at a temperature above freezing.
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The salinity of water in major seas varies from about 0.7% in the Baltic Seato 4.0% in the Red Sea. (The Dead Sea, known for its ultra-high salinity levels of between 30–40%, is really a salt lake.)
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Test sea
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Pretty self explanatory, mainly looking for a math formula.
What rain speed is used? Something like an irrigation rate, maybe a half inch an hour?
The square footage of impervious surface is the basis of stormwater fees in many areas. So how much water are they really handling?
What are grocery stores with huge parking lots paying for stormwater utility fees? What about the mall?
Long post warning, but there is a lot on my mind this morning.
What a predicament. In the 4th quarter of last year, I predicted the 1st quarter of 2022 would bring volatility and devaluation to financial markets. So far, this appears to have been correct. Aside from the technical indicators showing visible cracks, there are true macroeconomic and monetary policy concerns.
Firstly, inflation soared 7% in 2021, which is the highest rate in over four decades. What makes this more troubling is the current calculations for inflation are inherently flawed, resulting in under reporting. This is primarily due to the “owners equivalent rent” category being substituted in lieu of actual home prices, which differs from the late 1970’s, early 1980’s model. If you calculate inflation under the old model, inflation is considerably higher. Inflation is great for equities, so long as corporations can pass on increased supplier costs to consumers. The spread between PPI and CPI shows this isn’t happening on the broad scale. Margins are compressing.
Secondly, the Fed’s primary tool to combat inflation is tightening monetary policy via reduction in QE, rate hikes, and eventually balance sheet runoff. Problem is, the Fed is forecasting three to four rate hikes in 2022. My questions to Jerome Powell: How do you expect a 1% rise in rates to offset negative real yields that are currently at -6% to -7%? This likely isn’t enough to curb inflation. Remember, Paul Volker had to to raise rates to 20% plus once inflation became entrenched in the economy. Secondly, with the 2-year and 10-year spread sitting around 0.85%, is the Fed really planning on hiking rates to the point it results in a yield curve inversion? I highly doubt it, but they have made many terrible decisions throughout the years.
Lastly, don’t let these politicians fool you by talking about retail sales numbers, the unemployment rate, and other “success” stories. Adjust December 2021 retail sales for inflation and you will see the numbers were abysmal. Adjust the unemployment rate for the drop in the Labor Force Participation Rate, and you will see we are not at historic lows.
The financial markets are about to go (already happening to a degree) into a tantrum because the Fed is telling us they want to tighten monetary policy in a weak economy (under the surface), which could result in a yield curve inversion (almost always preceding a recession in 6 to 24 months), and despite there efforts, it is entirely possibl
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Our house is situated on a hill in Southern California. The other day it rained pretty hard and we noticed a leak in our garage.
Upon investigation, I realized our neighbors backyard is graded in a way that all the water funnels to the corner of the garage where we’re experiencing the leak (it’s a pretty steep incline too). To make matters worse, they put up a homemade retaining wall that pretty much dams up the water. Only one 2” crack is left and it’s next to my garage so I’m assuming the water just has to sit there waiting to drain. Fortunately it doesn’t rain that much here but being on a hillside I’m really worried about my foundation.
Any advice on what kind of contractor to reach out to? Economical options would be great as well.
Also if you have any advice on how to handle this with my neighbor I’d really appreciate it. He’s a nice guy and I don’t really want to ask him to pay because I don’t know if he can afford it.
Thank you!
What exactly is a culinary ethnography?
Food is many things, to many people. What exactly that thing is, says a lot about that group of people as a whole. What we eat is a huge part of who we are, who we’ve been, and what we experience as we encounter the new. In my 90 years, I have done my best to experience first hand the many, many ways that each denizen of the Forgotten Realms decides to break bread.
This is by no means a rule book, as if I am some sort of dictator of what is, and isn’t proper for a member of a race to do in the kitchen. Rather, it is a collection of observances in regards to commonalities and trends among members of the same race. While my own experience is obviously limited, and there are plenty of individuals I have yet to dine with and learn about, I would like to offer up what I have learned so far.
-Adelbert Boffin, Halfling Culinarian
First things first, as a disclaimer of all Culinary Ethnography entries, let’s set some caveats. Who are Elves? Am I including Half-Elves? Drow? All those of Elven lineage? All those of Elven parentage back to the Fae themselves? While I would like to eventually include more varied looks at the similarities and differences between all of these groups, for the purposes of this analysis, I will be looking at those Elves that live in, or near the Faewild in particular. As always, this is a look at some of the major trends I have seen occur. It is not a rulebook that one must follow to be a “proper Elf” in the kitchen. Food is as much culture as it is history, geography, necessity, community, and personal freedom. With that out of the way, let’s give this culture a respectful look.
Living off the Land
To truly understand the cuisine of the Elves, it is important to first understand where their sustenance is derived from. While this maxim is true of all races, it holds even greater weight with Elves. Food culture is derived from the culmination of necessity and environment and the environment that most Elves live in is one of true bounty, allowing for a more “particular” palate. After all, it is much easier to only eat things that taste good, when starvation is not on the line. Not many races can claim the same abundance, leading to a rather unique culinary culture.
The first subject of note is that Elves do not take part in animal husbandry. From Dwarves, to Humans, to Orcs, you can see some sort of animal that is a mainstay in their diet in some form or another. As always, this is co
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I am getting increasingly worried about the amount of warning signals that are flashing red for hyperinflation- I believe the process has already begun, as I will lay out in this paper. The first stages of hyperinflation begin slowly, and as this is an exponential process, most people will not grasp the true extent of it until it is too late. I know I’m going to gloss over a lot of stuff going over this, sorry about this but I need to fit it all into four posts without giving everyone a 400 page treatise on macro-economics to read. Counter-DDs and opinions welcome. This is going to be a lot longer than a normal DD, but I promise the pay-off is worth it, knowing the history is key to understanding where we are today.
SERIES (Parts 1-4) TL/DR: We are at the end of a MASSIVE debt supercycle. This 80-100 year pattern always ends in one of two scenarios- default/restructuring (deflation a la Great Depression) or inflation (hyperinflation in severe cases (a la Weimar Republic). The United States has been abusing it’s privilege as the World Reserve Currency holder to enforce its political and economic hegemony onto the Third World, specifically by creating massive artificial demand for treasuries/US Dollars, allowing the US to borrow extraordinary amounts of money at extremely low rates for decades, creating a Sword of Damocles that hangs over the global financial system.
The massive debt loads have been transferred worldwide, and sovereigns are starting to call our bluff. Governments papered over the 2008 financial crisis with debt, but never fixed the underlying issues, ensuring that the crisis would return, but with greater ferocity next time. Systemic risk (from derivatives) within the US financial system has built up to the point that collapse is all but inevitable, and the Federal Reserve has demonstrated it will do whatever it takes to defend legacy finance (banks, broker/dealers, etc) and government solvency, even at the expense of everything else (The US Dollar).
I’ll break this down into four parts. ALL of this is interconnected, so please read these in order:
Part One: The Global Monetary System- “A New Rome” <
[Part Two: Derivatives, Systemic Risk, & Nitroglycerin- “The Ouroboros” < ](https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/o727oc/the_dollar_endgame_part
... keep reading on reddit ➡A little over one hundred years ago, an icy forest exploded. Early on the morning of June 30 in the year 1908, a violent blast flattened more than 80 million trees in a stretch of woods roughly two-thirds the size of the State of Rhode Island. Because the explosion occurred in a barely occupied slice of Siberia, there were only a handful of witnesses and three deaths.
Well, officially, there were three deaths. The reality is an entire village was wiped out; men, women, and children experienced unimaginable horrors before dying in the snow. Records of the devastation were lost between wars and regime changes and revolutions.
You may have heard of the Tunguska Event but I promise you haven’t heard all of it.
My name is Lucas Vant. I run a blog called Horror in History and this is the story of what actually happened that summer morning near the Tunguska River. I know the truth because I was able to track down the journal of one of two survivors. The following account is from Sir Henry Franklin, a British adventurist who was on a solo trek through Siberia at the time of the Tunguska Event. I present, for your consideration, the actual incidents leading up to #TunguskaTruth.
June 29th, 1908, Yeniseysk Governorate
(*Note from Vant: The Yeniseysk Governorate is now modern Krasnoyarsk Krai in Russia)
Siberia has a fearsome reputation as a chilled killer. In June, though, with the sunshine cutting through the spruce trees and birdsong in the air, it’s stunning. The horizon seems to stretch farther here than anywhere else in the world. The water is sweeter, narrow creeks bringing cold runoff from the steppes to the taiga. I wake up each morning and breathe deeply of the fine summer air. There’s still a coolness in the wind at night but I have no complaints about the weeks I’ve spent hiking through the colossal forests in this strange land.
This morning, however, there was an ill-quality to the sunrise. The dawn light broke weak with a greenish tint. At first, I considered some bleed over from the aurora borealis but as the day grew older the phenomenon worsened. I was planning on hiking through a rocky pass east of the Tunguska river. When thick clouds came rolling down off the steppes, though, I reconsidered. After a quick breakfast of rabbit and coffee, I limited myself to a nature walk near the campsite in case of rain.
I’d set out to chronicle all of the flora and fauna that I encountered in Russia. My second journal is absolutely covere
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Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
