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The Sound Guy

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  1. We here in North Paulding have a great chance to help the environment because of the Recycling center the county has at the Transfer station.

     

    We've cut our trash load by at least half by recycling cardboard, plastic, glass, paper and aluminum cans, all of which is accepted at the center. They even help unload!

     

    All it takes is a trip every couple of weeks to the center when the bins in the garage get full.

     

    Little further drive for those in the south part of the county I know.

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  2. I am always hearing that you are suppose to shelter in place during a shooting. Yet, this school pulled the fire alarm and everyone ran. I wonder if there is a set rule in these cases? What is best to do? Run or shelter in place?

     

    I guess it depends a lot on if:

    1) The door has glass in it that can be seen through/broken

    2) The door can be locked.

     

    If the door is a good shield, I'd shelter in place, if it's easy to get through, I'd run like the wind. (or in my case, like a very energized sloth)

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  3. Thank you. I took my son to the CVS Minute Clinic last night where he was diagnosed with flu B and an ear infection. He's feeling a bit better today.

     

    I didn't realize until this week that you can go to the CVS Minute Clinic website and secure a spot in line from your phone. It's a great way to save yourself from being exposed to germs sitting in a waiting room. I highly recommend it!!

     

    Most of the clinics I've seen are doing this. They will text you when they are close to ready for you.

     

    Problem I had was I checked their site at 9:00 AM and the first slot open was after 5:30 PM. :(

     

    However, I found another with an open slot and it worked well. Also, the clinic I went to had masks available at the front desk though I didn't notice it until checking out. I would have worn it if I'd seen them.

  4. that has had congestion, coughing, sore throat, complaining of chest pain,dizziness with NO fever? I am a worry wart and I for sure don't want to have to make a doctor trip if I don't have to with all the stuff that's going around. Kind of feel like ALL of us have been poisoned and no my kids did not get a flu shot and won't and neither will I.

     

     

    I'd be concerned about pneumonia setting in. My parents had the "walking pneumonia" where the symptoms were mild enough they kept moving but the chest/cough would not clear. If they start coughing up green stuff, then I'd go. The Dr office should have masks available if you go, put them on you and the kid ASAP when you get there.

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  5. It's sad that learning the dangers of Ice on the roads often have such high costs. My son is still paying high insurance premiums for totaling out his truck on an Icy US 61 N several years ago. This young man paid with his life. :(

     

    The only good thing about having so much ice this winter is maybe, maybe, more people will learn to respect it and figure out how to drive on this stuff. (Slow, slow, slow). Of course with two of my kids having been passed on a double yellow with snow all over the place because they were going slowly to try to be safe, maybe not.

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  6. We often have the same thing at our place. Up on Dabbs Bridge Rd, the Church and homes had power, we did not.

     

    In our case, there was a line down in the subdivision, it had blown the fuse on the pole at Dabbs Bridge that feeds our whole subdivision. Greystone had to clear the tree, then replace the fuse at the entrance to get us all back on. There are many more fuses than you would suspect in the system (at least many more than I suspected), all designed to isolate a fault to the minimum number of homes they can.

  7. Holy Carp Batman!!

     

    Maybe we shouldn't complain quite as much about the taxes around here:

     

     

     

    At the current level, a Hartford resident who owns a home with an assessed value of $300,000 currently pays an annual tax bill of $22,287, at rate of 7.43%. A West Hartford homeowner with a similar house pays $11,853 at a rate of 3.95%.

     

    Wow. $300K house around here would be $4500 or so. Even the West Hartford rate is crazy high.

     

    No wonder they Yankees are moving south...

  8. After dropping nearly $70,000 last year (from an outrageously silly number) it went back up some $20,000 to a reasonable number given the market. We've had brokers cold calling us asking if we'd like to sell as they clients looking for homes like ours. (Ranch over basement w/ 2 acre lot)

  9. I've been hearing about it for a couple of days. I thought it was bad enough they were parading their white racist hate by saying racist remarks but when I found out they were pointing shotguns at the folks at the Birthday party and saying "shoot the n*****s and the little n*****s too", I thought the sentence was appropriate.

     

    She's 25 with children. I bet she wishes she hadn't gone on that joyful, drunken hate filled ride. Getting drunk causes irreparable damage sometimes. Thank goodness no one was shot or killed.

     

     

    I'm a gun owner, but understand that with gun ownership comes responsibility. You point one at ANYONE you don't have good reason to shoot and that's brandishing and (in my opinion) a terrorist threat and the law MUST come down hard on that. As many have said here, excess booze and guns do not mix. They are lucky no one got hurt, even by accident, or they would be UNDER the jail.

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  10. Maybe, but at 10:00 PM? You have to shoot Tannerite to make it go off and you do NOT want to be close when it goes off and it's hard to see in the dark.

     

    I'd lean more to Acetylene balloons. A friend of my would make them and one not much bigger than your fist sounded like a half stick of dynamite going off.

     

    If someone made a big balloon sized one, it' would have a massive bang.

     

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  11. I haven't checked the facts yet, but saw two articles that had some interesting facts:

     

     

    Hillary received 15,899,116 votes this year.
    Bernie Sanders received 12,193,152 votes.

    Hillary and Bernie received 28,092,268 total primary votes this year.

    In 2008 Hillary Clinton received 17,493,836 primary votes.

    So this year Hillary received 1,594,720 FEWER primary votes than in 2008.
    And she lost in 2008!
    Horrible.

    More than 35,029,294 votes were cast in the 2008 Democratic primary.

    So Democrats lost nearly 7 million primary votes this year compared to 2008.

     

    The other:

     

     

    The American businessman surpassed 2012 nominee Mitt Romney’s and 2008 nominee John McCain’s primary election vote totals by late in April according to Politico calculations. Previous record holder George W. Bush received just 10.8 million votes in 2000, a number far surpassed by Trump’s over 13 million votes with the five June 7 primaries.

     

    I wonder how many of those missing Democratic voters jumped to the Republicans to vote for Trump figuring he'd be easy to beat by either Hillary or Bernie.

     

    The south made it even easier by pulling in their elections and only have the presidential primary on the ballot. So a Democrat could vote in the Republican for the presidential primary, then democratic for all the other primaries and not miss a beat.

     

    I think it's time for the primaries to be closed up.

     

    'Course, then I guess people could join both parties and still vote in either I guess.

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