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that's 8:00p on the west coast and i am the only person on the forum. i don't think i have ever seen this. i might get that if it was 3am or 4am ...
so here's the question - 1 member and 1594 guests? really ... must be a bunch of bots out there slipping onto our forum

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We want to know why you have 217 unanswered messages?! Slacker! It must just be the messages those bots are sending you. But yes, that is weird. I have noticed that there doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to forum volume - some weekends we are all working on our car and needing to post then other times it’s just crickets. Perhaps one of the moderators sees the patterns in the noise
 
there are a lot of minor notes that i have read on my phone that didn't require a response ... so they are still their. i have never found myself as the only member online at any given time ... there is always somebody else. just an anomaly i guess
 
For a while now I have wondered about the slow down in posts in all the categories. Just a sense, probably me, do I sign on too often? Do I need that 12 Step Program again?
 
you don't need a 12 step program ... i have noticed a bit of a slowdown in a lot of posts recently. but that happens a lot near the end of summer or the end of the year when there is a lot going on in people's lives. i guess we will have to start having periods of mandatory attendance ... and take roll to see who's in class.
 
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We want to know why you have 217 unanswered messages?! Slacker! It must just be the messages those bots are sending you. But yes, that is weird. I have noticed that there doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to forum volume - some weekends we are all working on our car and needing to post then other times it’s just crickets. Perhaps one of the moderators sees the patterns in the noise
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so you peaked my interest - after all, i am easily amused ... so i went scrolling thru half of the 67 pages of DM's that i have. there was only 1 unread post in the first 34 pages (5+ years - 2021) ... and that is my place marker so that i can easily see if anybody sent me a new DM. its a post from Pete about the Gosser Beer CSL. i did read it, but i marked it as unread because it stands out.
 
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Along with mandatory attendance and roll call will we have to buy uniforms? I suggest the one I wore at St. Joan of Arc elementary school in Jackson Heights Queens starting in 1947. White long-sleeved shirt with the e9coupe badge on the pocket, Navy Blue nickers, blue socks, black shoes. In fourth grade we switched to long, cuffed pants, Navy of course. All purchased from a Diocese approved uniform company at a fixed price.

Actually not a bad idea for all public elementary and high schools to eliminate the expen$ive competition that can cost parents hundreds of dollars a year and descriminates against the parents and children who can not afford to compete.

Steve
 
rsporsche said:
you don't need a 12 step program ... i have noticed a bit of a slowdown in a lot of posts recently. but that happens a lot near the end of summer or the end of the year when there is a lot going on in people's lives. i guess we will have to start having periods of mandatory attendance ... and take roll to see who's in class.
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I have been busy...selling our Tesla on Marketplace (fingers crossed that will be behind me on Saturday) and buying her replacement. Buying is always easier than selling, I must admit that interacting with people on marketplace uses up a lot of my limited patience.

Meanwhile, plugging away at getting the triple Weber setup to run properly takes a little time and I am nowhere near satisfied. By the way, no school uniforms for me. My uniform these days is shorts and a tee shirt in the summer and jeans and a long-sleeve tee shirt in the winter.
 
okay Lance, but for your punishment, everybody on e9coupe will jump on your Tesla for sale and ask you exactly 2 questions. just kidding, we know what a PITA selling cars can be. glws
 
boonies said:
I have been busy...selling our Tesla on Marketplace (fingers crossed that will be behind me on Saturday) and buying her replacement. Buying is always easier than selling, I must admit that interacting with people on marketplace uses up a lot of my limited patience.

Meanwhile, plugging away at getting the triple Weber setup to run properly takes a little time and I am nowhere near satisfied. By the way, no school uniforms for me. My uniform these days is shorts and a tee shirt in the summer and jeans and a long-sleeve tee shirt in the winter.
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If FB is unsuccessful try Cars and Bids. I sold my girlfriends Tesla on there and was very happy with the results. She wanted ~15 and I got 27. There seems to be an active Tesla audience...
 
tferrer said:
If FB is unsuccessful try Cars and Bids. I sold my girlfriends Tesla on there and was very happy with the results. She wanted ~15 and I got 27. There seems to be an active Tesla audience...
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I wish I had thought of that. It will be sold as of 5PM tomorrow, we are meeting to complete the transaction at the local tag and title (it's a PA thing) office.

I got a fair price given the needs of the car. Low miles but the cars are parked outside and we are surrounded by large trees that hurl acorns at our cars ever two years. The hood looks like it has hail damage.

I really need to put up a shade sail or carport, but the focus has been on expanding the garage, and the township is being difficult re. impervious coverage on our 1+ acre steep slope lot, so now we have a land use attorney and surveyors and...
 
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I really need to put up a shade sail or carport, but the focus has been on expanding the garage, and the township is being difficult re. impervious coverage on our 1+ acre steep slope lot, so now we have a land use attorney and surveyors and...
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the question is = what is the percentage of 'paved' area to unpaved area? theoretically anything not paved allows absorption of water, unless you have large outcroppings of rock. 1 acre should give you a very low percentage of paved to unpaved - house + driveway vs. 1 acre. lets say you have a 3500 sf house (1 level value - including garage) and you have another 5000 sf of driveway (big driveway) and another 1000 sf of sidewalks / exterior paved areas - so if you added 500 sf (carport) you would have a total of less than 10,000 sf out of 43,000+ sf ... that is a low percentage. another approach is to use a 'turf block' paving system under the sail / carport ... then the ground allows absorption.
 
boonies said:
I wish I had thought of that. It will be sold as of 5PM tomorrow, we are meeting to complete the transaction at the local tag and title (it's a PA thing) office.

I got a fair price given the needs of the car. Low miles but the cars are parked outside and we are surrounded by large trees that hurl acorns at our cars ever two years. The hood looks like it has hail damage.

I really need to put up a shade sail or carport, but the focus has been on expanding the garage, and the township is being difficult re. impervious coverage on our 1+ acre steep slope lot, so now we have a land use attorney and surveyors and...
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Sorry to hear about your issues with the Township. I would think with an engineer and as-built survey you should be easily be able to solve the problem. I don't know what the requirements for pervious/impervious ratio need to be, but I can't imagine the expansion of the garage would drastically change the ratio and exceed Township requirements given you have a 1+ acre lot. I'm assuming your not in some deed restricted community. Welcome to my world as a real estate developer, never ending issues with municipalities.
 
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the question is = what is the percentage of 'paved' area to unpaved area? theoretically anything not paved allows absorption of water, unless you have large outcroppings of rock. 1 acre should give you a very low percentage of paved to unpaved - house + driveway vs. 1 acre. lets say you have a 3500 sf house (1 level value - including garage) and you have another 5000 sf of driveway (big driveway) and another 1000 sf of sidewalks / exterior paved areas - so if you added 500 sf (carport) you would have a total of less than 10,000 sf out of 43,000+ sf ... that is a low percentage. another approach is to use a 'turf block' paving system under the sail / carport ... then the ground allows absorption.
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Having been through this in our community, unfortunately it's not always just a percentage. My township doesn't allow turf block to count, and if it's under some cover then even more reason it wouldn't count. Also, slope sometimes removes that area from being counted since the water won't absorb but instead runs down the slope, so if you have an acre with a large portion being the side of a hillside (very common here on Mercer Island) it's very possible to have a significant limitation on the size of home you can build just because so little of it counts as absorbable area. May be the situation @boonies is encountering. It's funny how regional these things are too - Seattle 2 miles to the west and Bellevue 2 miles to the east have much more lax rules.
 
Issues with the township for "normal permits" is never easier. But complicated tenfold by steep slope issues. Shocked. In Solebury Township, PA, applying for permits you are DOA. Apply for a swimming pool? You will be doing Senior Aquatic Arobics in the Senior Living community before a single permit is stamped.

Good Luck!
 
For me any construction needs to include assessment of disturbance of the known local bald eagle nests :oops:
Also, water. Yes it rains in Seattle, but less than in Solebury Township (I checked - my 39 inches to your 46). But, when I constructed my house, I needed to install a water retention tank which can hold about 10000 gallons while allowing very slow drainage into our town's sewer system. So I'm set for Noah's Ark type flooding. It looks like an old-school radiation bunker - there's a grate in my driveway through which I can descend a ladder and then walk across my entire front yard (underground through this 6' diamater concrete pipe) to then emerge through another grate on the far side of my yard. Yes, this makes sense. A few lines written on a page by someone because you know, just in case, and the homeowner bears the cost not the city, so why not and this is what you end up with.
In Seattle the water retention tank can be the size of a rain barrel, so only 2 miles apart and I need something the equivalent of 182 rain barrels.
 
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one way to increase permeability is to add fill at the bottom of the hill to capture runoff or to lessen the slope in places ... you can build up with gravel and top with fill dirt ... creating a way to move water side to side giving it a greater chance to absorb into the hill. another is to use permeable pavers - if the local authorities don't like turf blocks, you can use gravel set in small grids to keep everything together. i have also seen sidewalks / driveways composed of concrete pavers surrounded by gravel to make the driveway / walk more permeable.
 
and this...this is what it has become....managing water runoff to protect our cars. All too familiar. I admit I have a version of PTSD from experiencing 3 weekends in a row of "Atmospheric River" deluge back in 2021. I live on a small farm, flat terrain, drainage ditch on west side, large sump pit, large sump pump, backup battery sump pump. But....when rain is non stop and exceptionally high volume, and main sump pump fails.....hope the backup will work. But when backup battery fails., after main pump fails...water fills pit, flows out and moves seriously near my shop!
Was able to source LAST Honda gas powered water pump in my community and get it in place just in time to shed the overflow and protect my barn/shop from the rising water.
All this excess rain and worry keeps me wondering how I can better prepare for next extraordinary "Atmospheric River" episode.
But like all of us here, I would do anything to protect my Coupe from whatever the weather throws at us.
I believe I'm better prepared than ever, but notice rain in this area seems to be getting heavier.
May be time to move to higher ground!
 
when i was in school, i went to Tulane in New Orleans. as most of you know, most of NOLA is below sea level. i had spent the weekend working on projects in the architecture school - a couple of all nighters, and monday morning rolled around and i had to move my car out of the faculty parking area behind the school. it had been raining non-stop all weekend. i got out to the main street to go home and it was a lake - no definition of sidewalks or anything. i was driving an MGB GT at the time, not a lot of ground clearance. so i turned on what was the sidewalk and used the 'no parking' signs to define the edge of where i wanted to go. drove all the way down to Broadway and realized i had an issue. its a street with a median and again, the intersection was a lake. so i new my only chance was to get to the 'neutral zone', that's what NOLA calls a median. so i turned left on the sidewalk, went to mid block (the intersections were the low point with drains) so i crossed to the neutral zone and got across the street and continued my drive down sidewalks until i got home. took me about an hour to go 8 or 9 blocks. this was a weekend rain that caused significant flooding - just imagine what Katrina was like.
 
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