OT: Thread About Nothing (part # who cares)

[njdevils1982]

trois oeufs!!!

 

[JimEIV]

cool chart. this is very similar to the ones i deal with for my job but instead for sewer and storm drain levels

Its from the US Geolological Service.

I have booked marked about a dozen gauges for various rivers to check the flows and temperatures

West Branch Delaware River at Hale Eddy NY

Discover water data collected at monitoring location USGS-01426500, located in Delaware County, New York and find additional nearby monitoring locations.

waterdata.usgs.gov

Today's rain raised the cfs nearly off the chart.

Looks like a new high for this day.

 

[njdevils1982]

Its from the US Geolological Service.

I have booked marked about a dozen gauges for various rivers to check the flows and temperatures

West Branch Delaware River at Hale Eddy NY

Discover water data collected at monitoring location USGS-01426500, located in Delaware County, New York and find additional nearby monitoring locations.

waterdata.usgs.gov

Today's rain raised the cfs nearly off the chart.

View attachment 1031006

Looks like a new high for this day.
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this example is from a location downtown toronto near the lake and yes its showing the sensor below water level at times. there is a pressure sensor that takes readings on it instead of the ultrasonic part of it when that happens

 

[JimEIV]

this example is from a location downtown toronto near the lake

View attachment 1031016

Is this for drinking water? What's the purpose? What does water level above bottom mean?

 

[njdevils1982]

Is this for drinking water? What's the purpose? What does water level above bottom mean?

above bottom of the sewer floor

so the cities an municipalities know when levels are high and they can send pump trucks out instead of having overflows. also lets them know where sewage is diverted along the system when levels rise and get to secondary pipes

ends up at treatment and filtration plants

 

[JimEIV]

above bottom of the sewer floor

so the cities an municipalities know when levels are high and they can send pump trucks out instead of having overflows. also lets them know where sewage is diverted along the system when levels rise and get to secondary pipes

ends up at treatment and filtration plants

Ah I see.

 

[JimEIV]

Holy crap. first ever recorded death from a black bear in Florida. Kind of shocking honestly.

89-year-old man and dog killed in bear attacks in Florida: Officials

The incident was reported in the area of State Road 29 and U.S. 41, just south of the Big Cypress Wildlife Management Area.

abcnews.go.com

 

[JimEIV]

Its from the US Geolological Service.

I have booked marked about a dozen gauges for various rivers to check the flows and temperatures

West Branch Delaware River at Hale Eddy NY

Discover water data collected at monitoring location USGS-01426500, located in Delaware County, New York and find additional nearby monitoring locations.

waterdata.usgs.gov

Today's rain raised the cfs nearly off the chart.

View attachment 1031006

Looks like a new high for this day.
View attachment 1031013

This gauge station is now at 8300 cfs tonight.

 

[My3Sons]

Holy crap. first ever recorded death from a black bear in Florida. Kind of shocking honestly.

89-year-old man and dog killed in bear attacks in Florida: Officials

The incident was reported in the area of State Road 29 and U.S. 41, just south of the Big Cypress Wildlife Management Area.

abcnews.go.com

Black Bears are usually not interested in tangling with humans.

 

[njdevils1982]

Holy crap. first ever recorded death from a black bear in Florida. Kind of shocking honestly.

89-year-old man and dog killed in bear attacks in Florida: Officials

The incident was reported in the area of State Road 29 and U.S. 41, just south of the Big Cypress Wildlife Management Area.

abcnews.go.com

holy shit

 

[thebeernerd]

They must've had some storms upstate NY the other night

Something I've learned from living in NY is that absolutely nobody wants to claim the title of "upstate New York." Instead, you've got a bunch of regional terms. Westchester and Hudson Valley are self-explanatory names. Binghamton and the rest of that stretch north of the Pennsylvania border is the Southern Tier. The area around Albany is the Capital Region. Rochester and parts west are Western New York. Even the northernmost part of the state would rather call itself the North Country. Now, maybe I've been here too long, but I'm convinced it's not a useful term to begin with. Like, where would it start?

Holy crap. first ever recorded death from a black bear in Florida. Kind of shocking honestly.

89-year-old man and dog killed in bear attacks in Florida: Officials

The incident was reported in the area of State Road 29 and U.S. 41, just south of the Big Cypress Wildlife Management Area.

abcnews.go.com

There are black bears in Florida? Since when? Are they snowbirds like their human counterparts?

And yeah black bears aren't the aggressive type. Pretty surprising story here.

 

[njdevils1982]

There are black bears in Florida? Since when? Are they snowbirds like their human counterparts?

And yeah black bears aren't the aggressive type. Pretty surprising story here.

 

[JimEIV]

Something I've learned from living in NY is that absolutely nobody wants to claim the title of "upstate New York." Instead, you've got a bunch of regional terms. Westchester and Hudson Valley are self-explanatory names. Binghamton and the rest of that stretch north of the Pennsylvania border is the Southern Tier. The area around Albany is the Capital Region. Rochester and parts west are Western New York. Even the northernmost part of the state would rather call itself the North Country. Now, maybe I've been here too long, but I'm convinced it's not a useful term to begin with. Like, where would it start?

There are black bears in Florida? Since when? Are they snowbirds like their human counterparts?

And yeah black bears aren't the aggressive type. Pretty surprising story here.

There are some massive black bears in Florida and a lot of them... about 4000 of them estimated. They've been debating a hunting season for them for the last few years.

Next issue will be panthers... Florida Fish and Wildlife estimates around 200...but I think they are way too low on that. I know they have good research methods and are monitoring these things very closely but my very unscientific method of following peoples trail camera pictures and videos tell me something very different with the volume of pictures being taken.... especially with kittens. You don't get 20 or 30 different random lion videos from very different areas in people's backyards with only 200 animals...they are the most elusive animal in North America...I'm guessing there are triple or quadruple the amount of lions in Florida than what Fish and Wildlife says there are.



I'm old, anything north of Westchester is upState. Anything West of New Jersey is the wilderness

 

[My3Sons]

There are some massive black bears in Florida and a lot of them... about 4000 of them estimated. They've been debating a hunting season for them for the last few years.

Next issue will be panthers... Florida Fish and Wildlife estimates around 200...but I think they are way too low on that. I know they have good research methods and are monitoring these things very closely but my very unscientific method of following peoples trail camera pictures and videos tell me something very different with the volume of pictures being taken.... especially with kittens. You don't get 20 or 30 different random lion videos from very different areas in people's backyards with only 200 animals...they are the most elusive animal in North America...I'm guessing there are triple or quadruple the amount of lions in Florida than what Fish and Wildlife says there are.



I'm old, anything north of Westchester is upState. Anything West of New Jersey is the wilderness

When I was in college my ftrst would break up into Upstate and Down State for various events. Being from Westchester I was always put with the Upstate contingent. Seemed weird to me but whatever.

 

[JimEIV]

When I was in college my ftrst would break up into Upstate and Down State for various events. Being from Westchester I was always put with the Upstate contingent. Seemed weird to me but whatever.

Westchester is the bridge to the hinterlands.

 

[njdevils1982]

When I was in college my ftrst would break up into Upstate and Down State for various events. Being from Westchester I was always put with the Upstate contingent. Seemed weird to me but whatever.

upstate? downstate? "i used to think that coke came in a bottle or can" ...love me some wilcox

 

[JimEIV]

I got a random junk email today from RWJ Health letting me know that it is "nurses week"

Wait until I tell my wife is nurses week and I want to celebrate.

 

[My3Sons]

I got a random junk email today from RWJ Health letting me know that it is "nurses week"

Wait until I tell my wife is nurses week and I want to celebrate.

Then you will soon be hearing from my wife.

 

[njdevils1982]

smokey's feeling the heat as well now

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7528440

 

[thebeernerd]

I got a random junk email today from RWJ Health letting me know that it is "nurses week"

Wait until I tell my wife is nurses week and I want to celebrate.

I dated a nurse for a little over two years. One of the main things she'd talk about with me is whatever was bothering her about her nursing home job at the time. It was pretty much a constant in our relationship, to the point that when we broke up, my only firm request was "you need to find a new job." Last I spoke to her she was working somewhere else in the Satmar area of Williamsburg.

The way her cousin put it, she (and the cousin) is living the dream of every Caribbean parent that worked as an orderly or lesser position so that their children could become nurses. I don't blame that attitude. If we happen to adopt a foster child, we'll want them to go down a more practical career path- quite the opposite of what my parents did with my sister and me, but more in line with what my grandparents wanted with their kids. In a way, it's a shame that the pendulum swung back.

 

[JimEIV]

I dated a nurse for a little over two years. One of the main things she'd talk about with me is whatever was bothering her about her nursing home job at the time. It was pretty much a constant in our relationship, to the point that when we broke up, my only firm request was "you need to find a new job." Last I spoke to her she was working somewhere else in the Satmar area of Williamsburg.

The way her cousin put it, she (and the cousin) is living the dream of every Caribbean parent that worked as an orderly or lesser position so that their children could become nurses. I don't blame that attitude. If we happen to adopt a foster child, we'll want them to go down a more practical career path- quite the opposite of what my parents did with my sister and me, but more in line with what my grandparents wanted with their kids. In a way, it's a shame that the pendulum swung back.

Interesting commentary on career guidance.

No one steered me in any direction. I grew up living with both my great grandmother and grandmother. So 3 generations of Italian women including my mother. Great Grandma was truly the boss of the entire family. There were only two rules that she repeated nearly every single chance she got....

1. don't bring shame to the family. And she had pretty concrete examples of what that meant from other families. It was a lecture that I must have heard 10,000 times.

2. Finish your education. That meant college for the boys....girls should get married and be wifes according to her. . She was also born in Italy in 1899 so ya know.

That was pretty much my only career guidance/expectation from anyone.

Edit:
Kinda strange though. She believed "girls should get married and raise children" but that never meant not work.....she was an incredible business person. Started in dye factories in Paterson in the textile industry...opened multiple stores and owned a ton of real estate, even formally lended money especially to new immigrants to get started all on her own ... She was something else.

 

[Davegarri]

There are black bears in Florida? Since when? Are they snowbirds like their human counterparts?

And yeah black bears aren't the aggressive type. Pretty surprising story here.

Oddly enough, the first time I ever saw a black bear in the wild was in Florida. Had one run across the highway on the way to some springs. Lived and hiked around rural NJ for 18 years at that point and never saw one.

I've seen them more frequently in NJ over the years since then though.

 

[HugeInTheShire]

Something I've learned from living in NY is that absolutely nobody wants to claim the title of "upstate New York." Instead, you've got a bunch of regional terms. Westchester and Hudson Valley are self-explanatory names. Binghamton and the rest of that stretch north of the Pennsylvania border is the Southern Tier. The area around Albany is the Capital Region. Rochester and parts west are Western New York. Even the northernmost part of the state would rather call itself the North Country. Now, maybe I've been here too long, but I'm convinced it's not a useful term to begin with. Like, where would it start?

There are black bears in Florida? Since when? Are they snowbirds like their human counterparts?

And yeah black bears aren't the aggressive type. Pretty surprising story here.

A black bear attacking? That's wild, I live in Alberta so we see them all the time and unless you come between them and their cub they're terrified of people. If this story was about a moose, I'd understand their assholes but a black bear almost unbelievable.
Actually we had a grizzly bear in town just last week, that's a bear to be afraid of. It didn't do anything though just wandered around until it was captured and released further away from town.

 

[JimEIV]

I dated a nurse for a little over two years. One of the main things she'd talk about with me is whatever was bothering her about her nursing home job at the time. It was pretty much a constant in our relationship, to the point that when we broke up, my only firm request was "you need to find a new job." Last I spoke to her she was working somewhere else in the Satmar area of Williamsburg.

The way her cousin put it, she (and the cousin) is living the dream of every Caribbean parent that worked as an orderly or lesser position so that their children could become nurses. I don't blame that attitude. If we happen to adopt a foster child, we'll want them to go down a more practical career path- quite the opposite of what my parents did with my sister and me, but more in line with what my grandparents wanted with their kids. In a way, it's a shame that the pendulum swung back.

There are a lot more bears in New Jersey now than there used to be. Coyotes too. I started hunting in Somerset and Hunterdon county in 1980...never saw a bear or coyote all through the 1990's....turkeys were even on the rare side. It exploded in the 2000's.

My dad had a trail cam photo of 5 individual bears in one photo in Bedminster from around 2010

 

[JimEIV]

A black bear attacking? That's wild, I live in Alberta so we see them all the time and unless you come between them and their cub they're terrified of people. If this story was about a moose, I'd understand their assholes but a black bear almost unbelievable.
Actually we had a grizzly bear in town just last week, that's a bear to be afraid of. It didn't do anything though just wandered around until it was captured and released further away from town.

Wasn't there recently a couple of people killed in Banff from a grizz?