Is there ome of those huge canadian forest fires right now. I keep seeing bits of ash falling from the sky and i smell smoke from burning wood.
Disregard. Apparently there was an explosion of some sort in Hyde Park.
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on April 20, 2012, 01:05:23 AM
Disregard. Apparently there was an explosion of some sort in Hyde Park.
Oh, my.
Quote from: Nigel on April 20, 2012, 01:09:37 AM
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on April 20, 2012, 01:05:23 AM
Disregard. Apparently there was an explosion of some sort in Hyde Park.
Oh, my.
Yeah. It'll be interesting to find out the cause. Seems like there's an explosion once a year in that neighborhood.
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on April 20, 2012, 01:05:23 AM
Disregard. Apparently there was an explosion of some sort in Hyde Park.
Very Mindful. Worry about a bushfire in Canadia, but an explosion in your own city? Nevermind.
Creepytastic!
Quote from: Deepthroat Chopra on April 20, 2012, 02:21:51 AM
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on April 20, 2012, 01:05:23 AM
Disregard. Apparently there was an explosion of some sort in Hyde Park.
Very Mindful. Worry about a bushfire in Canadia, but an explosion in your own city? Nevermind.
Has nothing to do with mindfulness and everything to do with probably no one on the board knowing about it.
Still no word in the news about the explosion, but it was mentioned by a couple of friends on facebook.
This, however, was also a contributing factor:
http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/12007258443824/brush-fire-tears-through-20-acres-in-dedham/
Dedham borders Boston's West Roxbury neighborhood (the place where I grew up) which is not far from where I live now (Jamaica Plain neighborhood- both neighborhoods used to be part of Roxbury proper before Roxbury proper was annexed by Boston, which is possibly an interesting history piece I might pick up on later). My maternal grandmother and aunt live there. The likelihood of them being affected is minimal, since they live in about a settled area as Dedham has, and if residential areas were heavily affected a) it would have been mentioned in the news b) I would have gotten a call.
Whoa, creepy!
That's a bigass fire. :eek:
Quote from: Anna Mae Bollocks on April 20, 2012, 06:30:00 AM
That's a bigass fire. :eek:
Yeah, 20 acres is not a small thing, but again, it's Dedham. It does however explain how ashes and smoke got to the Longwood Medical Area without vast tracts of Canada being laid waste (which happened a couple of years ago, and could be smelled and ashed all the way to Boston).
Why can't they "get to it"? No access to water?
When we had the Bastrop fires here, people went out there and actually stomped on it. But this place is psycho. :p
Quote from: Anna Mae Bollocks on April 20, 2012, 07:00:06 AM
Why can't they "get to it"? No access to water?
When we had the Bastrop fires here, people went out there and actually stomped on it. But this place is psycho. :p
Dedham's weird. The way I understand it is that the amply filled Quabbin doesn't service Norfolk because they don't pay for it (except for Brookline, which might as well be Boston, so it all goes to Suffolk (which as you know is basically Boston and Revere, which might as well be Boston) and Middlesex (this is probably the only time that MA counties are useful to me).
What it comes down to is that Dedham doesn't want to be part of Boston and therefore has limited water supplies which they have to pay taxes for. I was told by my aunt that Dedham is not serviced by the Quabbin and they have to pay for their own dinky water supply and often have to have water bans in place. In New England. Where it rains enough to where that shouldn't be an issue.
Didn't know that. Wow. The whole time I was up there (lived in Lynn and Salem), I never had to pay for water...down here, we get billed for it. It's bundled in with the electric and the trash pickup and if one gets shut off, you lose them all. Being taxed for it sounds almost as sucky.
What've they got against Boston that they want to go through all that?
Quote from: Anna Mae Bollocks on April 20, 2012, 08:22:13 AM
Didn't know that. Wow. The whole time I was up there (lived in Lynn and Salem), I never had to pay for water...down here, we get billed for it. It's bundled in with the electric and the trash pickup and if one gets shut off, you lose them all. Being taxed for it sounds almost as sucky.
What've they got against Boston that they want to go through all that?
I don't know. I don't know the whole story other than the reason that Boston is a relatively small city is effectively because Brookline refused to join, which cause all expansion to halt. (For anyone not familiar with the area: (http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/dracolupus/Boston.jpg) Red is Boston, and I've colored in Brookline as Blue and Dedham as Black)
Obviously, it would have made sense for Brookline to join Boston, since it's almost surrounded by it, but I think it had something to do with property taxes
Those pink bits are, I think, Revere, Winthrop, and Nahant-I think that the map meant to compare Boston with the rest of Suffolk, but I could be wrong because who gives a shit about Winthrop and Nahant?
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on April 20, 2012, 08:50:18 AM
Those pink bits are, I think, Revere, Winthrop, and Nahant-I think that the map meant to compare Boston with the rest of Suffolk, but I could be wrong because who gives a shit about Winthrop and Nahant?
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Hey, if Dedham can't even come up with water to put out a fire like that, why aren't they on receivership? Like Chelsea was?
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on April 20, 2012, 08:42:13 AM
Quote from: Anna Mae Bollocks on April 20, 2012, 08:22:13 AM
Didn't know that. Wow. The whole time I was up there (lived in Lynn and Salem), I never had to pay for water...down here, we get billed for it. It's bundled in with the electric and the trash pickup and if one gets shut off, you lose them all. Being taxed for it sounds almost as sucky.
What've they got against Boston that they want to go through all that?
I don't know. I don't know the whole story other than the reason that Boston is a relatively small city is effectively because Brookline refused to join, which cause all expansion to halt. (For anyone not familiar with the area: (http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa66/dracolupus/Boston.jpg) Red is Boston, and I've colored in Brookline as Blue and Dedham as Black)
Obviously, it would have made sense for Brookline to join Boston, since it's almost surrounded by it, but I think it had something to do with property taxes
What do all those lines designate? City boundaries? There are so many of them!
Yeah, New England states don't have any "unincorporated territory". Everything is some sort of municipal division, whether it's a city, town, township, or one of those weird things they have in the empty parts of Maine.
Quote from: Fuck You One-Eye on April 20, 2012, 04:03:15 PM
Yeah, New England states don't have any "unincorporated territory". Everything is some sort of municipal division, whether it's a city, town, township, or one of those weird things they have in the empty parts of Maine.
SO STRANGE.
They're not like us, Nigel. They have funny values and their hands all smell like tidal mud.
Frankly, I don't trust them.
And Twid once again reminds us why I keep Them on That side of the country.
:lulz: actually i was surprised to find out newton is a city. I thought it was a bunch of houses where rich people live. The concept of county here is also entirely useless except for weather advisories and jury duty.
Stelz- not sure what dedham will intend to do further down the line. I imagine the town board will eventually opt for quabbin water.
Quote from: Fuck You One-Eye on April 20, 2012, 04:03:15 PM
Yeah, New England states don't have any "unincorporated territory". Everything is some sort of municipal division, whether it's a city, town, township, or one of those weird things they have in the empty parts of Maine.
I most often hear them referred to as unorganized townships.
Quote from: Fuck You One-Eye on April 20, 2012, 04:03:15 PM
Yeah, New England states don't have any "unincorporated territory". Everything is some sort of municipal division, whether it's a city, town, township, or one of those weird things they have in the empty parts of Maine.
One of the places I lived was 179 Boston St., Salem. The house next door was 179 Main St., Peabody. It was kind of a shock because I was used to town - cows - woods - more cows - town. I had to watch for UPS parcels or the guy would give them to the woman next door.
Quote from: Reverend What's-His-Name? on April 20, 2012, 06:16:14 PM
Quote from: Fuck You One-Eye on April 20, 2012, 04:03:15 PM
Yeah, New England states don't have any "unincorporated territory". Everything is some sort of municipal division, whether it's a city, town, township, or one of those weird things they have in the empty parts of Maine.
I most often hear them referred to as unorganized townships.
I just call them the "T-blah-R-whatevers".