Everyday Disasters

Month: January 2007

  • If a Dam Breaks will You be Swamped?

    Although there’s some evidence that dams might not be maintained the way you might hope for expected rainfalls (courtesy of MYWAY.com) what will happen to your community if rainfalls increase in intensity during the spring & fall? The National Inventory of Dams gives you an idea

  • More on Dangerous Municipal Truck Flashers

     Not that I have the least idea if truck flashers that were painful to look at were the root of this accident but it’s what I dread. Closer to home, the son of one of my church’s members used to earn his paycheck collecting trash until one foggy morning a driver pinned him against the…

  • Why can’t I be President and Order Everyone to Fix Global Warming? – It’s Just A Game.

    Politicians can’t effectively handle threats that have a long planning horizon. Any attempt to address a very scary possibility will result in the politician being voted out of office as a wing-nut that isn’t paying attention to more immediate problems. Trying to pass broad, expensive-to-someone regulations give that someone an immediate incentive to spend money…

  • Laundry and the Maid – not

    Unless you have a live-in housekeeper, laundry is almost never the use of a maid’s time that will result in the most saved time for you. If, despite all of this, you still feel you want the maid to do the laundry,

  • Why Abrupt Climate Response Is a Game

    Check out Jean-Marc Jancovici on what might lead us to think the Gulf Stream will stop with some nice grounding in why no one is sure exactly what might happen.    Check out the whole site on the range of things that could happen.  The bottom-line take-away is that the environment will change.  Like a school exercise, I’m going…

  • DPW Truck Flashers – Hazardous to Worker Health?

    When new ‘safety equipment’ for municipal workers is required in NJ how extensively is it tested? The strobe lights that are showing up on trash trucks and police cars make me wonder.

  • What do You Want From Your Maid?

    Time – Definitely Anyone hiring a maid is purchasing time. If you have to do things over yourself because they weren’t done properly or you spend more time looking for lost items than it would have taken you to clean in the first place, you wasted your money.

  • How to Have the Best Maid

    Your goal is to get your house clean, without having everything in it thrown out or hidden, preferably at an affordable cost.

  • Why Is My Maid So Bad?

    I don’t think I’ve ever seen slower motions when wiping a counter . . .   Quality time isn’t just for kids. If your maid is working 6 to 6 1/2 days a week, 10 hours a day, she’s not going to have the energy to move the furniture to dust under it. You’ll be…

  • Why Plan for Abrupt Climate Change Now?

    “I’ve read the news. People say we don’t have to worry about global warming / abrupt climate change for another 40-100 years. I plan to be dead by then.”  Must make life insurance planning easy. The estimates that the Arctic ice cap will melt by 2080 are based on the decrease in ice surface area…