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Re: CCT,
The more we here in the US look at our 'normal' the more it is clear we need to create a new 'normal.' We have lived believing in the myths of our histories and heroes far too long.
posted by
Ciel
on August 7, 2020 at 6:31 AM
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Re: Annicita,
I hope your friends and family were far from the event, and are well. Life in Lebanon has been hard enough in recent years!
I read a comparison: Two tons of ammonium nitrate was used in the Oklahoma City bombing. This was 2750 tons of the same stuff.
posted by
Ciel
on August 7, 2020 at 6:29 AM
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Re: Pat,
Has your nephew's wife heard from her family?
This has indeed been an annus horribilus!
posted by
Ciel
on August 7, 2020 at 6:23 AM
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I had not heard of the explosion. I have distant relatives as well as friends there.
posted by
Annicita
on August 5, 2020 at 2:41 PM
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My nephew's wife has been terribly upset about the explosion in
Beiruit - she has family there and hasn't yet heard from all of them. It seems this old world is just suffering one disaster after another, fire, flood, hurricane, explosions... We need a week or a month or a year of nothing scary.
posted by
Pat_B
on August 5, 2020 at 1:24 PM
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I suppose we must be thankful for normal these days.
Nice to get the truck up and running it is a start.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 5, 2020 at 10:48 AM
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Re: sassyass,
So far all I know about my truck's a/c is that the fan was working, at best, intermittently. The cool is cool, but the fan is either on or off, no degrees--so to speak-- of a little bit or a little bit more or all the way on.
Focus at the moment is on the plight of those damaged by the blast in Beirut. But sooner or later, it will come down to the question of who thought it was a good idea to store a massive quantity of bomb-making material in such a place for such a time, to put it there, then leave it there and forget about the danger.
posted by
Ciel
on August 5, 2020 at 9:12 AM
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There must be a thing with AC's this year. Ours had an "expensive" leak.
I too was relieved to learn that it wasn't an attack. That explosion was something else.
posted by
Sherri_G
on August 5, 2020 at 8:53 AM
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