"Some employees kept their feet out of the water by sitting on the checkout counters while taking a break from providing their overnight guests with an unlimited supply of popcorn, muffins, energy bars, bottled water and dry clothes. 'We just thought we’d have to sit it out a little bit,' said Jahnke, who lives near Capital Brewery in Middleton. 'They took a (crummy) situation and made it semi-enjoyable because they always remained calm, they were well organized and constantly were checking on people.' Jahnke isn’t even a Costco member. He had gone to Monk’s Bar & Grill with his girlfriend, Raechel Ramirez, but after leaving the restaurant their car stalled in standing water. They pushed the 2013 Dodge Dart into the Costco parking lot at about 8:30 p.m., moving it two more times to keep out of the path of the water. At about 10 p.m., employees from the store, which had closed around 6 p.m. after losing power, began asking people in the parking lot to come inside.... Water began coming in the front door of the store at around 10:30 p.m.... 'The smell was just rot. That’s the best way to describe it. A sewage and rot smell,' said Jahnke, 27. 'I went nose-blind. I grew accustomed to that smell... I never thought I would be in danger until Monday... I will most definitely get a membership.'"
From a Wisconsin State Journal article about the big rainstorm we had here in Madison on Monday night.
२३ ऑगस्ट, २०१८
याची सदस्यत्व घ्या:
टिप्पणी पोस्ट करा (Atom)
१९ टिप्पण्या:
People acting decently toward each other.
That’s how it works, most places.
What? Not to the Superdome? Where's Ray Nagin when you need him?
The reality of Global Warming - Climate Change:
More water and floods, more often, in some places.
More drought and lack of water, more often, in some places.
The gov't should be doing more to prepare for floods and droughts, and less in trying to determine whether or not the global temp avg will be 2 or 3 or 4 degrees hotter in 100, 200, o 300 years. We don't have data, and won't have it on the goodness of the models -- tho it's already clear the 2001 scare-mongering models of the IPPC were all wrong. Every single one. NOT scientific consensus for any of them, and none deserved it.
Floods & flood plains, including higher insurance for houses in dangerous areas, and less gov't cost for stupid optional rebuilding in the dangerous places.
More reservoirs, like what the Dems in CA refused to support or build, despite plenty of desert & deserted area.
Floods & droughts, only more of them. Problem reduction (not elimination) involves well-known tech solutions that are not rocket science.
Eliminating the problem? Not technical feasible today, and maybe never -- but such "perfect" Utopian solutions are very much the enemy of drought reduction & flood reduction, today.
Water is now moving into Madison. E Johnson was closed yesterday and it is like East Washington may close too.
It ain't over yer, especially if we get another inch or two tomorrow.
You do not need to bring "global warming" into it; just find a local drainage engineer and ask what he knows about the odds for flooding and the level of preparations for when it inevitably happens.
Based on past experience; never mind speculation on what the future might bring.
"That’s how it works, most places."
For varying definitions of "most".
Costco is the best. I would give up one of my toes (I mean... not one of the ones I NEED, one of the ones in the middle) if I could have a Costco in my area. And not just for the emergency flood relief!
NJ was always having floods wne I was there till the 70s.
One flooded half the 2000 foot runway at E Hanover so I had a swell time doing short field landings on the remaining thousand feet.
"The Hunters allegedly also spent thousands of dollars of campaign funds on routine purchases for personal items at Costco ($11,300),..."
$11,000!!!!
There's a danger from mold which grows where there has been flooding as we know in Milwaukee from our Deep Tunnel backup several years ago. At least there is a lot of clean-up expertise which was developed then in Milwaukee for Madison to call on. But you can't wait around to do anything because then you end up breathing it.
That's kind of good news! Or at least bad news that makes you feel good.
Thank god it wasn’t a WalMart, Costco smells better
Got to love Costco. It is usually the highlight of our weekend.
I don't like shopping at Costco, but I do like them as a corporation.
They couldn’t fire up the hot dog cooker? Any fool could make themselves very comfortable stranded in the average Costco. You could film a little parable about Western materialism.
Fauxcahontas Warren says the gov't would do it better and cheaper.
They couldn’t fire up the hot dog cooker? Any fool could make themselves very comfortable stranded in the average Costco. You could film a little parable about Western materialism.
The hot dog cooker was almost certainly electronic and the article says the power went out at 6:00.
Yeah but were there microagressions? There must have been division and racism and homophobia and transphobia and and the ubiquitous evil patriarchy.
This is Fake News.
I am not an ableist robot
टिप्पणी पोस्ट करा