dammit and another funbus

"OPPOsaurus WRX" (opposaurus) 08/25/2016 at 21:40 • Filed to: None

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So I took an architectural exam and did great on 4/5 sections and horrible on the fifth. I think its a load of shit. The whole thing is scored by computer so I called to request a review and they are not offered for Massachusetts. I was completely confident, especially in that section. Its something I do quite frequently for my office so it was no challenge. I augured with the NCARB (National Council of Architectural Registration Boards) and they basically repeated ‘it says on the website, no reviews for Massachusetts’. I wanted these people to say they had 100% confidence in the computerized grading system and they wouldn’t. They also wouldn’t admit that it could be flawed either. well it either works or it doesn’t. Now I want to go punch a brick. Have a funbus

HammerheadFistpunch > OPPOsaurus WRX 08/25/2016 at 22:05

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Never trust a “CARB”

S65 > OPPOsaurus WRX 08/25/2016 at 22:07

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Dat gif doe. For a second there I thought that Bronco was real

OPPOsaurus WRX > S65 08/25/2016 at 22:16

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yea i’m getting better/quicker with these

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > S65 08/25/2016 at 23:06

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Problem: Bronco Bus is not real.

Solution: Oppo project car.

S65 > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 08/25/2016 at 23:15

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I have 45 cents lets do it

TheRealBicycleBuck > OPPOsaurus WRX 08/26/2016 at 08:46

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Sorry to hear that. We ramped up the household for full study mode, then the flood happened. My wife has everything she needs to get going except the motivation. She was extremely lucky that the water in her office didn’t quite reach her desktop. She had several sets of plans, several contracts, numerous pay-apps, her computer, and her “spiral bible” - her master calendar - all sitting on her desk. None of it got wet. oh, and her teapot and special teacup. She can’t function without those. Now she’s in full recovery mode. Her specialty is historic preservation, so she’s in demand for remediation/recovery efforts for many of the public buildings in our area. Her new temporary “office” is a conference room with 10 other people.

I’m not sure she’s going to fulfill her plan to finish testing this fall.

OPPOsaurus WRX > TheRealBicycleBuck 08/26/2016 at 08:55

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that sux. i know you had flooding down there but I didn;t know your house got it too. I actually just got off the phone with another rep. they are going to review my exam. the woman who called me said the other person never should have told me that and should have just had me contact the person who called me today. I hope I am right so bad.

TheRealBicycleBuck > OPPOsaurus WRX 08/26/2016 at 09:18

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Hope you are right too. We were fortunate that the flood didn’t get in our house. It was her work office that flooded. Sorry for the confusion.

OPPOsaurus WRX > TheRealBicycleBuck 08/26/2016 at 09:25

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our office build had a pipe burst over the winter. Luckily we’re on the 4th floor and it only affected the lobby. that really has to suck though. so what happens now? is everything covered in mold? is town vacant for months?

TheRealBicycleBuck > OPPOsaurus WRX 08/26/2016 at 10:57

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They hired a remediation company to come into her office and salvage all of the paperwork. They are supposed to dry it out, scan it, then incinerate the remainder. My wife rescued all of the documents that didn’t get wet and are part of active projects.

This whole area looks like a war zone. Houses are stripped of drywall, insulation, cabinetry, and any contents that got wet. All of it is sitting on the curb. Every home that was affected has a pile of debris out front.

Once everything dries out, the rebuilding process will begin. The studs and sheathing need to be below 14% moisture before any construction can begin.

It only takes a couple of days for mold growth to become visible. The rooting structure gets deep into the wood so it’s difficult to get rid of that. Bleach kills what is on the surface. As long as the wood stays dry, it’s not a big deal to clean the surface and then rebuild. There won’t be a problem unless it gets wet again. Getting mold/mildew out of soft materials like clothes and furniture is damn difficult, so the recommendation is to just toss them.

The other thing you have to worry about is the other contaminants. All the oil, fuel, poop, etc. was floating around in the flood waters getting all over everything. Yeah, I said poop. It is not unusual for small sewage treatment plants that were flooded to contribute their contents to the mess and we have a lot of small sewage treatment plants around here. It’s one of the reasons I cringe when I see kids playing in the flood waters.

There are areas that I don’t like to drive through since the detritus in many of the swamps was stirred up and spread across the landscape. That stuff smells. Remember the flooded Miata? That crap that is all over that car is also all over many of the flooded neighborhoods.

It’s the kids that I feel for the most. Even if they didn’t lose their homes, they are having to share schools with kids who were affected. Most Baton Rouge schools will be back online after Labor Day. Livingston Parish schools, east of Baton Rouge, are out until further notice. Ascension Parish, south of Baton Rouge, plans to double up in their facilities and are going back to school Monday.

There are two approaches to doubling up - temporary buildings and shared facilities. At the high school level, the populations will literally double, so they have split time. The students from the hosting school are now in class from roughly 7:00 to noon. The flooded school students are in class from 12:30 to 5:00 in the same facility. Traffic near all of the schools is going to be a nightmare.

Many of the areas that flooded have never flooded before. There’s never been so much rain in such a short period of time. Just north of Baton Rouge, one of the weather stations recorded nearly two feet of rain in three days. South of Baton Rouge, we received over 14" of rain in the same period. ALL of that water fell in the Amite river watershed. The river is still high and many of the backwater areas cannot drain. There are houses that never flooded before that still have water in them and are expected to for another week. The backwater was so high that it crossed watershed boundaries in several places and now they are having to reroute water flow to get it to drain. http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/ne…

On top of it all, we keep getting local rain showers. These aren’t your nice springtime let’s go play in the rain type of showers. They’re what the old timers would call gully washers. When it happens, the spot that had just dried out fills up again. They are predicting more this weekend and later next week.

The road to recovery has begun, but it’s going to be a long bumpy one.