Dispatched to the border of Alaska

"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley) 04/17/2018 at 09:20 • Filed to: None

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My company loves sending me to cold, wet places. Starting tomorrow evening I will be spending over 24 hours in a small town for just one short meeting to look at a dent (albeit a massive and extremely expensive dent).

I am going to go to some museums to kill time up there.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/17/2018 at 09:22

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Can you see Russia from where you are?

pip bip - choose Corrour > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/17/2018 at 09:23

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slip across the border, commit a crime or two

;)

random001 > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/17/2018 at 09:25

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Tell me more about this dent...

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/17/2018 at 09:25

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all those fingers pointing to faraway places... and not one pointing to the nearest pub

priorities people

Svend > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/17/2018 at 09:25

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Does that hotel actually use ‘Upscale lodging with waterfront eatery’ in their advertising?

Is it a mom’pop place?

WilliamsSW > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/17/2018 at 09:27

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Sounds like a nice hotel at least?

And what is it that’s dented anyways?

jimz > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/17/2018 at 09:30

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if I could find employment I’d have no problem moving to Alaska.

fintail > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/17/2018 at 09:37

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Insurance companies and overhead costs, always amusing.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Svend 04/17/2018 at 09:38

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No, I think google labels it that based on feedback. To be fair, it is actually a really nice hotel. SR20's when I arrive tomorrow or on Thursday

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > random001 04/17/2018 at 09:43

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It’s a dent in a silo, but like a massive silo. Bigly, bigly silo and dent.

Big enough and expensive enough that we had to retain experts on silos from South Dakota and hire a helicopter equipped with a 3D laser scanner.

http://www.mcelhanney.com/services/gis-remote-sensing/

Can’t SR20 sadly. Need to keep that kind of stuff of the interwebs.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > WilliamsSW 04/17/2018 at 09:44

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Yeah, it looks like a nice hotel! I show up tomorrow.

It’s a dent in a silo, but like a massive silo. Bigly, bigly silo and dent.

Big enough and expensive enough that we had to retain experts on silos from South Dakota and hire a helicopter equipped with a 3D laser scanner.

http://www.mcelhanney.com/services/gis-remote-sensing/

vicali > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/17/2018 at 09:44

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Fish and chips are good in Rupert, and there’s a timmies. That’s all I remember from waiting there for the qci ferry.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > fintail 04/17/2018 at 09:48

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meh, the insurer isn’t paying me to go up. The client is. While I tell people I am a claims adjuster, I’m actually not (but I have been).

I am a claims advocate working for a broker. I am a “value added” service for our clients.

https://www.marsh.com/us/services/claims.html

*I don’t work for Marsh, I work for one of the competitors, but you get the idea.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 04/17/2018 at 09:48

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too true

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 04/17/2018 at 09:49

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I’m not there yet, but no. I think it’s a little far.

fintail > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/17/2018 at 09:50

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So you’re working for the claimant and not the insurer? Must be a very expensive dent indeed.

And still, the industry has a rep :)

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > fintail 04/17/2018 at 09:51

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Yeah, I always work for the claimant. My client’s are generally always paying over $1M in premium and carry significant deductibles.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > fintail 04/17/2018 at 09:51

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Yeah, I always work for the claimant. My client’s are generally always paying over $1M in premium and carry significant deductibles.

random001 > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/17/2018 at 09:53

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Kaiju attack?

WilliamsSW > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/17/2018 at 09:55

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Oof, so structural then, right? That doesn’t sound like fun - is it potentially repairable or no?

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > random001 04/17/2018 at 09:56

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Wind apparently, 85 miles per hour.

That is the subject of some discussion though. Sure wind technically caused it, but it should have been able to withstand wind that speed. Maybe designed wrong? Did a vacuum occur inside? Installation issue?

Only time will tell.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > WilliamsSW 04/17/2018 at 09:58

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To early to tell. I’m no engineer, but I know enough about cylinders to know that a massive dent isn’t structurally positive.

PartyPooper2012 > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/17/2018 at 09:58

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Therefore you must add the sign to the nearest watering hole

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/17/2018 at 10:10

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Upscale!

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/17/2018 at 10:11

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Fancy!

random001 > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/17/2018 at 10:23

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Boring. I’m going with Kaiju Attack.

fintail > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/17/2018 at 10:32

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Must be one heck of a dent indeed.

WilliamsSW > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/17/2018 at 10:41

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No, definitely not...

LOREM IPSUM > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/17/2018 at 11:03

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On the bright side, you get all of these all expense paid sight-seeing tours to far away lands almost none of us will ever see.

Stay warm though, and if it’s windy enough to destroy a multi-million dollar structure, maybe expense a harness and some anchors so you don’t end up inadvertently parasailing to the Ukraine.

I wonder what’s in that silo? Probably not grain, considering the location. Thermonuclear warheads, perhaps? ;)

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > LOREM IPSUM 04/17/2018 at 11:06

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I wish it was a nuke. At least that would be cool.

I can’t disclose what was in the silo as it would identify pretty easily where this occurred. It’s boring as hell though, I assure you.

Die-Trying > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/17/2018 at 13:15

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sudden temperature change? temperature difference?.....

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Die-Trying 04/17/2018 at 13:59

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Doubtful. I will be eager to learn!

Tristan > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 04/19/2018 at 22:34

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But where is Wall Drug?