I always marvel at the quality of old buildings, that they don't fall to pieces on their trips to their new homes.

BorderCount wrote:

I guess they just don't make them like they used to.

You can't grow the trees these things are made out of anymore.

The Yankees around here still know a thing or two about logistics. And they work fast since they do such a brisk business there is no time to lose.

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Why do all this, because the ocean waits for no woman.



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No longer, they chopped the top of that mountain and are recycling the rest layer by layer. Takes years. But the current waste stream has been reduced to 17% trash. The rest they pay recyclers to take away. Great things used to be found at that dump. I once found a Johnson 125 in perfect working order.

It ran for another decade and went scalloping with the man who made it his mission to single handily re-open the ponds to the ocean.1st time that was done in the modern era.  After the state had closed them off for 2 decades in an attempt to allow them to return to a natural state when their was a hands off approach to managing wetlands.  But the natural state no longer involved periodic breaches by storms and they became brackish freshwater, all the alewives and eels died, choked with toxic algae, anaerobic and raised the water table to flood 1/4 of the island where homes were.

The indians had been opening them for 5000 years, and the state and feds could not agree what another approach would be than hands off to let it go through succession or what the studies showed as a viable alternative as it took a long time to develop data. So our intrepid fisherman went out before spring storms and started digging a trench through the beach. It took him years trying and failing alone and he kept it secret for a long time. Eventually he succeeded and the big pond opened, drained and stayed open for more than a month. Swapping its water  The scientists rushed in to study it since no one had ever done a scientific study on an opened pond. It worked in a way that was different than the natural order of a pond to swamp succession, it returned to a viable seasonal pond environment. Our digger came back next winter and did it again. This time with a borrowed backhoe. And that year the ocean pond fish that spawn inshore and the eels swam in and colonized it. He was arrested but unrepentant. Ran for town commissioner instead.

2 years later the state threw in the towel and said that ponds could be opened again, that it was a viable way to manage these types of estuaries and seasonal wetlands. And now they dig it open every  year or so depending on salt water balance. It still breaches naturally too, just need a good old fashioned Nor Easter or Hurricane combined with a storm surge on a high tide. Heck, one day the island will wash away from the south and be redeposited North as a spit off Cape Cod.

Emmeran wrote:

Johnny_Rotten wrote:

The rest they pay recyclers to take away.

Those days are over, the recycler's were just shippers and the third world really can't take anymore.

The last regular train service through here is the daily Garbage Train off Cape Cod at sunup and it's oddly comforting. Set your clock by it and happily, it doesn't stop. In summer, when the heat and breeze are right, you can smell it coming before you hear it.

What troubles me is the shit tons of plundered money in play and complete indifference to the way it's spent.

Suppose I knew I'd yield to the devil's pitchfork when Jamie Zawinski posted this yesterday.