Jump to content

Herbie Hancock

Legacy Members
  • Posts

    4367
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by Herbie Hancock

  1. Combat Challenge. Good times. I was in training back in 1993-94, right around the time the FFCC came into existence. The hammer/sled always whooped my ass. The people that run really run fast times are some fit/strong mofos. Where do you work? (if'n you don't mind me asking)

    About 3 hours north of you. I run sub 1:40 and almost puke every time. I can move the sled in 4 strokes on a good day, the hoist always trips me up. Then guys like Clarence Parks and Matt Harvey sit around burning cigs and drinking Coors light between runs and go sub 1:30. It’s….frustrating.
    • Hook 'Em 1
    • Like 1
  2.  
    I'm just more shocked at how many times there was a chance to intervene with Card and they were all missed or passed over. There were alarm bells going off for months to local law enforcement and the military and nothing happened.
    May - His ex-wife and child contact the local sherif alerting them he's hearing voices and amassed a number of guns at their house. The sherif contacts the Army reserves and they already knew he was troubled. The police left this in the Army Reserve's hands.
    July - Card had an incident with his unit during a training exercise, which resulted in him getting put into a psychiatric center for 2 weeks after which he is released.
    Sept - Talks with a friend/fellow reservist and tells him he is going to commit a mass shooting and punches the guy in the face. The friend contacts the Army reserves, they contact the sherif's office (from May) to ask for a welfare check. The sherifs go check, think he's there but don't go in (worried for safety) and leave. They contact his CO who say they are going to let Card have his time. The sherif then contacts his brother who said he was going to work to secure Card's guns and the sherifs leave it in his hands.
    After all this Card was still able to go purchase more guns and we know what happened next.

    I read all of that and all I could focus on was your repeated misspelling of Sheriff.
    • Haha 1
    • Rage+1 1
  3. i so understand that fent is opiod. I'm fully aware of what that is, what a problem it is, etc.
    what i am not understanding is the market.
    crack makes sense because it's a pure product that gets stepped on and transformed. 
    but usually drug people don't cut drugs with better more potent drugs. usually that's not how it works

    If fentanyl costs $150/lb, and adding 1oz of fentanyl to 1 kilo of heroin allows me turn that 1 kg into 10kg’s, that’s a pretty good return on investment, no?
  4. I think AD will have a better NFL career than X. 

    AD also has the size to hold up in the NFL.



    Desean Jackson played 16 seasons in the NFL at 5-10 175. Xavier Worthy just measured 5’11 165.
  5. ^^ That’s fucking wild. How can something like that ever be contained?

    Lots of luck and some timely weather is your only chance. There is no way to get far enough ahead of that. Embers are traveling .25-0.5 miles and lighting off ahead of the flames, then you end up with crews caught between two fire lines which is how you get people killed. Structural protection of certain areas may be possible, depends on the surrounding area and terrain.
    • Hook 'Em 1
  6. 1) I wouldn’t put a lot of stock in what a meteorologist 500 miles thinks will happen. I’d stick with the TIFMAS and Forest Service folks for my prognostications.

    2) The snow hasn’t been steady or heavy enough to help slow the fire progression as much as had been hoped for

    3) Tomorrow when the winds and temps change will be a huge turning point. This fire started with a small spark, and no matter the ground gained today and tonight all it will take is one small remaining ember to restart this catastrophic series of events.

    With the wind gusts predicted it is absolutely unpredictable. Spot fires start beyond containment lines. Fire lines advance at a rate that ground personnel are unable to keep pace with.

    • Hook 'Em 2
  7. The boys assigned to chase hotspots have been repositioned to make a push on the fire line. If the wind behaves and the snow continues there could be a drastic increase in containment by the end of the day. This is the same scenario that helped extinguish the Marshall fire between Boulder and Denver a couple years ago.


    Edit for clarity: gonna need a lot more snow for it to have much effect, but it’s a start.

    • Hook 'Em 5
×
×
  • Create New...