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Travlr · Aug 10, 2023

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And don't talk to me about insurance! What a @#$%^&&*(*! racket.

What a nightmare. Insurance: what a @#$%^&&*(*! racket.
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I couldn't agree more.

I'd like to see a boycott of ONE well known insurance company that would threaten its existence... letting the rest of the insurance companies know they are possible targets of a boycott too. Would it help anything? I don't know. But I'm just tired of the companies getting away with murder. And the state insurance regulators in collusion with them.

knayrb · Aug 10, 2023

Good morning everyone. I hope you have a good day.

I’m thinking about the terrible fire in liahona, hawaii. I’ve been there many times. I’m sick about the 400 year Banyon Tree burning with the entire town. Lots of people have lost everything. All those old quaint building and cute ma & pop business gone. I hope no one here was harmed.

Travlr · Aug 10, 2023

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Good morning everyone. I hope you have a good day.

I’m thinking about the terrible fire in liahona, hawaii. I’ve been there many times. I’m sick about the 400 year Banyon Tree burning with the entire town. Lots of people have lost everything. All those old quaint building and cute ma & pop business gone. I hope no one here was harmed.
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I won't be able to give you a heads up on the trail conditions like I was expecting to do. Camping trip canceled...

knayrb · Aug 10, 2023

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I won't be able to give you a heads up on the trail conditions like I was expecting to do. Had a sister go to the hospital and the camping was canceled for this week. Sorry...

On the up side, Sis is doing well after finding blood clots in her lungs.
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Terrible news, Travlr. I hope she recovers. You can always go camping again. Get everyone healthy and safe.

boatswain · Aug 10, 2023

Morning all:

Sorry to hear about your sister Travlr, hopefully now that they know the problem they can take care of it and get her back to good as new.

Was thinking about cheech also, hopefully he's not anywhere near those fires.

MQQSE · Aug 10, 2023

Travlr said: ↑

I won't be able to give you a heads up on the trail conditions like I was expecting to do. Had a sister go to the hospital and the camping was canceled for this week. Sorry...

On the up side, Sis is doing well after finding blood clots in her lungs.
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Thoughts and prayers for her recovery.

Oldie2007 · Aug 10, 2023

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sixtys/wannabes/fire eaters. The firestorm in HI has me thinking about cheech, who lives in HI and used to post here. I just tried looking up his username and it seems to be gone. Hope he's okay. I have a high school classmate who's living some kind of bohemian life on Maui; according to what I see on FB he's been evacuated and he's safe, but apparently has only the clothes on his back. Not that he had much more than that before the fire, from what I can gather.

And don't talk to me about insurance! What a @#$%^&&*(*! racket. My wife had two at-fault automobile fender benders within 10 weeks last year, and our car insurance carrier for the past 35 years dropped us. We're not talking about some sort of wild driving here either. One of the incidents was a fender scrape in a parking lot! They didn't raise our rates, they didn't put us on some kind of special notice, they just dropped us. After 35 years. No chance for appeal. Theoretically we could have appealed to the state insurance commission, but several agents we talked to said it was not worth the time and effort. The commission rubber stamps whatever the insurance companies send them.

We had our cars, home, and an umbrella policy with a single carrier, but since they dropped us like a hot rock I decided to drop them too. Good thing, as it turns out, because they had allowed our home coverage to become woefully insufficient. (Note to all: check your homeowner's policy to see if it has kept pace with recent home price inflation.) A little bit later the outfit that insures our 'fun' cars dropped us too, so now we were utterly without coverage.

Long story short: we're insured again, but it is costing a lot more and the companies are not all at the top of the heap. Not that I think any of them are on much more than a trash heap anyway at the moment! It was pure h*ll trying to find anyone to provide car insurance, and we had to get a special policy that excludes my wife from driver's coverage on the 'fun' cars altogether.

What a nightmare. Insurance: what a @#$%^&&*(*! racket.
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BkerChuck said: ↑

Similar yet different insurance story here.

Last year I was in the process of getting quotes for a new roof for my house. All the homes in my development are roughly the same age and some owners had already had new roofs put on. Really bad storm came through, lots of wind, even a decent amount of hail. Next door neighbor had a roofing company looking at their roof and walked over to talk to me mentioning the hail damage. I already had a quote and was almost ready to pull the trigger but figured I'd talk to them it can't hurt. Their rep comes over, brings a ladder, and goes up on my roof. They come down not long after and show me pics on their phone of hail damage and start asking me about my homeowner's insurance. They made all the calls and handled everything on my behalf and I got a new roof installed for just the cost of my deductible. $1700 versus more than $10,000. Save me a nice chink of money. Whole thing start to finish was about 6 weeks.

Meanwhile neighbor who came over to talk has the same insurance company, State Farm, and they deny their claim! Their house is a few months newer than mine, same builder, same design but State Farm tells them what they have is NOT hail damage! Another neighbor less than a block away gets the same news even being told their "hail damage" was just " foot traffic"! Foot traffic on the roof of a 2-story house with a fairly steep roof pitch? WTF? I asked that neighbor if perhaps they meant hoof traffic form Santa's reindeer at Christmas. I went so far as printing out all of my email communications with State Farm and sharing it with those 2 neighbors in hopes that might help with their cases but it was to no avail.
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BOO! HISS!!

roundrocktom · Aug 10, 2023

They finally got the fire out! Yippee!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/o...re-parmer-lane-fire-in-cedar-park/ar-AA1eZsLp

It was a little too close for comfort.

Oldie2007 · Aug 10, 2023

roundrocktom said: ↑

They finally got the fire out! Yippee!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/o...re-parmer-lane-fire-in-cedar-park/ar-AA1eZsLp

It was a little too close for comfort.
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Hats off to all the Fire crews! When you see an aerial of the area, it's incredible what didn't burn!

KWB17 · Aug 10, 2023

roundrocktom said: ↑

They finally got the fire out! Yippee!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/o...re-parmer-lane-fire-in-cedar-park/ar-AA1eZsLp

It was a little too close for comfort.
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ImpulseRed008 · Aug 10, 2023

Travlr said: ↑

I've been laid low by a bout of plantar fasciitis for the last couple of months, so haven't been hiking. But we might be going camping up Gooseberry tomorrow so I'll at least get out far enough to see how wet it is. I'll let you know.

I doubt you'll see much to worry about, but there has been enough rain to puddle the low spots. May be a few mud holes, so I wouldn't travel alone and I'd want a winch.
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Kuru or hoka shoes and an ace bandage arch sleeve. Works wonders. Ask me how I know. Hope it goes away soon.

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Evening all:

We just had another drowning at the local lake in a non swimming area, also saw where as of today they closed the swimming area, AGAIN, due to high bacteria count, that is happening all too often.
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ndoldman59 said: ↑

Not good on the drowning. There was one around here 2 weeks ago a 13 year old had been skiing and took her life vest off to climb in the boat easier slipped on the ladder and was recovered 3hrs later. No real understanding why.
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roundrocktom said: ↑

PSA, Just a reminder to have a go bag packed.

Thankfully it's about 60% contained this morning, 50 acres consumed.

The photo was posted to the neighborhood list, captured from their cam.

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wdb said: ↑

sixtys/wannabes/fire eaters. The firestorm in HI has me thinking about cheech, who lives in HI and used to post here. I just tried looking up his username and it seems to be gone. Hope he's okay. I have a high school classmate who's living some kind of bohemian life on Maui; according to what I see on FB he's been evacuated and he's safe, but apparently has only the clothes on his back. Not that he had much more than that before the fire, from what I can gather.

And don't talk to me about insurance! What a @#$%^&&*(*! racket. My wife had two at-fault automobile fender benders within 10 weeks last year, and our car insurance carrier for the past 35 years dropped us. We're not talking about some sort of wild driving here either. One of the incidents was a fender scrape in a parking lot! They didn't raise our rates, they didn't put us on some kind of special notice, they just dropped us. After 35 years. No chance for appeal. Theoretically we could have appealed to the state insurance commission, but several agents we talked to said it was not worth the time and effort. The commission rubber stamps whatever the insurance companies send them.

We had our cars, home, and an umbrella policy with a single carrier, but since they dropped us like a hot rock I decided to drop them too. Good thing, as it turns out, because they had allowed our home coverage to become woefully insufficient. (Note to all: check your homeowner's policy to see if it has kept pace with recent home price inflation.) A little bit later the outfit that insures our 'fun' cars dropped us too, so now we were utterly without coverage.

Long story short: we're insured again, but it is costing a lot more and the companies are not all at the top of the heap. Not that I think any of them are on much more than a trash heap anyway at the moment! It was pure h*ll trying to find anyone to provide car insurance, and we had to get a special policy that excludes my wife from driver's coverage on the 'fun' cars altogether.

What a nightmare. Insurance: what a @#$%^&&*(*! racket.
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yeah, insurance is a racket

Hope Cheech is ok

BkerChuck said: ↑

Similar yet different insurance story here.

Last year I was in the process of getting quotes for a new roof for my house. All the homes in my development are roughly the same age and some owners had already had new roofs put on. Really bad storm came through, lots of wind, even a decent amount of hail. Next door neighbor had a roofing company looking at their roof and walked over to talk to me mentioning the hail damage. I already had a quote and was almost ready to pull the trigger but figured I'd talk to them it can't hurt. Their rep comes over, brings a ladder, and goes up on my roof. They come down not long after and show me pics on their phone of hail damage and start asking me about my homeowner's insurance. They made all the calls and handled everything on my behalf and I got a new roof installed for just the cost of my deductible. $1700 versus more than $10,000. Save me a nice chink of money. Whole thing start to finish was about 6 weeks.

Meanwhile neighbor who came over to talk has the same insurance company, State Farm, and they deny their claim! Their house is a few months newer than mine, same builder, same design but State Farm tells them what they have is NOT hail damage! Another neighbor less than a block away gets the same news even being told their "hail damage" was just " foot traffic"! Foot traffic on the roof of a 2-story house with a fairly steep roof pitch? WTF? I asked that neighbor if perhaps they meant hoof traffic form Santa's reindeer at Christmas. I went so far as printing out all of my email communications with State Farm and sharing it with those 2 neighbors in hopes that might help with their cases but it was to no avail.
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i had the opposite....insurance covered all the roofs in the hood but mine....

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I won't be able to give you a heads up on the trail conditions like I was expecting to do. Camping trip canceled...
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Hope your sister recovers fast

happy Thursday all

Travlr · Aug 10, 2023

ImpulseRed008 said: ↑

Kuru or hoka shoes and an ace bandage arch sleeve. Works wonders. Ask me how I know. Hope it goes away soon.
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I went to the doc after reading up on some of the internet info... and he pretty much confirmed what I'd read. He suggested a few things that don't make much sense to me. Stretching an already damaged tendon and such. So I put some Dr. Scholls inserts in my favorite shoes and ignored what the doc said. I'm doing noticeably better, in a shorter time frame than claimed, so I think I'll stick to what I'm doing.

I might check out that arch sleeve. That sounds interesting.

ImpulseRed008 · Aug 10, 2023

Travlr said: ↑

I went to the doc after reading up on some of the internet info... and he pretty much confirmed what I'd read. He suggested a few things that don't make much sense to me. Stretching an already damaged tendon and such. So I put some Dr. Scholls inserts in my favorite shoes and ignored what the doc said. I'm doing noticeably better, in a shorter time frame than claimed, so I think I'll stick to what I'm doing.

I might check out that arch sleeve. That sounds interesting.
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Sorry wrong name
https://www.pedifix.com/p-310-arch-support-bandages-p60.aspx

Ivanimal · Aug 10, 2023

Travlr said: ↑

I won't be able to give you a heads up on the trail conditions like I was expecting to do. Camping trip canceled...
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hope she has gotten better.

knayrb · Aug 10, 2023

Travlr said: ↑

I went to the doc after reading up on some of the internet info... and he pretty much confirmed what I'd read. He suggested a few things that don't make much sense to me. Stretching an already damaged tendon and such. So I put some Dr. Scholls inserts in my favorite shoes and ignored what the doc said. I'm doing noticeably better, in a shorter time frame than claimed, so I think I'll stick to what I'm doing.

I might check out that arch sleeve. That sounds interesting.
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That is exactly what I do. I buy 3 pairs of dr scholls plantar fasciitis inserts at a time. I never even put my feet in a new pair of shoes without chucking the original inserts for the dr scholls. I had PF really bad a few years ago and now NEVER. I also have the worlds flattest feet. I walk 13K-20K steps a day without any foot pain. Good luck. I hope it works for you also.

OldSchlPunk · Aug 10, 2023

Travlr said: ↑

I went to the doc after reading up on some of the internet info... and he pretty much confirmed what I'd read. He suggested a few things that don't make much sense to me. Stretching an already damaged tendon and such. So I put some Dr. Scholls inserts in my favorite shoes and ignored what the doc said. I'm doing noticeably better, in a shorter time frame than claimed, so I think I'll stick to what I'm doing.

I might check out that arch sleeve. That sounds interesting.
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What I do when I start having problems with Plantar Fasciitis is stretching. Alternating between pointing my toes and pulling them up, a count of 15 for each, doing this for 5 minutes, several times a day. It's worked so well, I haven't had a problem in nearly a year.

Travlr · Aug 10, 2023

OldSchlPunk said: ↑

What I do when I start having problems with Plantar Fasciitis is stretching. Alternating between pointing my toes and pulling them up, a count of 15 for each, doing this for 5 minutes, several times a day. It's worked so well, I haven't had a problem in nearly a year.
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Did you let it heal first?

ScrippsRanch67 · Aug 10, 2023

My High School class of 1971 seems to have petered out in regards to Class Reunions. The guys I played Football with I still keep in contact and occasionally we get together. Number of the guys still live in San Diego County. Not an overall dynamic Senior Class. The people that thought their stuff didn't stink still are the same. A couple of the guys have passed away or have
had a pretty tough life. Maybe I'll invite the old guys to stop by for a beer by years end just to catch up.

Devious6 · Aug 11, 2023

Good morning fellow Porchatonians!! Back from a short vacay to Michigan. I hope everyone is safe from the fires!!

BkerChuck · Aug 11, 2023

Good morning all! Happy Friday!

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