Glad you guys are ok over there! Those winds looked terrifying!
Glad you guys are ok over there! Those winds looked terrifying!
Thank you! I don’t know how those in storm surge areas are fairing. Those are always the most devastating areas in a hurricane.
70% of my area is without power but somehow I still have it. Likely people will be without power for multiple days. Add to that, many people I know are “trapped” in their neighborhoods (unless you have a giant lifted truck) due to high levels of standing water in the roads that has not yet receded. I don’t live in an area with storm surge flooding, so the flooding in this area is due to the torrential rains. Thankfully my neighborhood does not flood. Weird that for me everything is as normal basically but other people are having a bit of an ordeal.
At least in my area, we didn’t get large trees downed, only small ones, so I don’t know anyone with trees falling through their roofs or anything thank goodness. At least everyone I know is safe even if they are without power and can’t physically get out.
Tornadoes touched down very close to some people I know across the state as well, but thankfully no one was hurt either. One even had a tornado in their same neighborhood.
I live a bit north of where the eye made landfall, so our winds and storm surge were not quite as high as in Sarasota/Bradenton, but we had some of the heaviest rainfall in a very long while for the area.
That’s what I’m thinking and hoping it likely is! I can’t totally rule out the possibility that it’s also leaking through the hairline chips, but they don’t seem deep enough to cause that. More than likely it’s just the tub drain itself like you said!
Idk it’s pricy to own a home nowadays unfortunately. I bought only last year and my mortgage payments are a bit higher per month than people seem to pay for rent on a similar type of unit. It’s not that I got a “bad deal” on the residence either. Home prices just don’t make sense nowadays.
I will say that around 2931, rent prices in my area skyrocketed up a whopping $400-600 in one year, but they have since seemed to stabilize.
While your fixed rate mortgage costs don’t go up every year, your property taxes, insurance, and HOA fees will. So with the above in mind, it doesn’t really seem as economical anymore to own a home.
I’m with you on most of this but I think having a reliable car is pretty important in the US due to lack of good public transport. In many cases, after a car gets to be a certain age you end up having to repair too many things on it and it becomes an unreliable money pit. I’m very glad that hasn’t happened to you, but I think for a lot of people it makes sense to get rid of their car once it gets too old. And then try to buy a lightly used car outright.
Wow, you make $200k/yr and only have $15k in savings? Not that $15k is a bad amount to have for the average person, but it just sounds so unbelievably low for your very high income. I mean, I knew the cost of living in California was wild but I didn’t realize it was that out of control.
The but about higher income making it easier to have mistakes is a big one.
I have a friend online who wants to make money, but doesn’t seem to have the ability to do so without going back to school. Going back to school would incur student loan debt, so they do not wish to do so.
I have a crazy amount of student loan debt, maybe $150k. But people don’t understand that federal student loan debt is absolutely nothing like credit card debt. There are basically no downsides to it besides paying another monthly bill (that you can use an income based repayment plan for).
People don’t understand how incredibly useful excess income is even if it ends up with a lot of loan debt. I had a similar hesitancy back before I went back to school, but I don’t regret it at all. I think I ended up like tripling my income.
Even if you end up with a lot of loans, making say $80k/yr is astronomically easier to survive on than $40k/yr for example. You have to think that something like rent or food prices are going to be somewhat similar in your area no matter how much you make. Sure, you could choose to live in a lavish place I suppose, but if you live reasonably then it’s more than worth it.
As an example, the average rent price for a not shitty one bedroom apartment in my area is maybe around $1.6k, which would equate to $19.2k/yr. That’s almost 50% of the gross income of the person making $40k/yr while only around 25% of the person making $80k/yr. So even if the person making $80k/yr has a $1k/mo student loan bill (you can get it cheaper if you wish), the difference is dramatic.
The person making $40k/yr will have a little over $20k left over at the end of the year for remaining expenses and savings, but the person making $80k/yr will have more than double that at $48k left over. Obviously there are a lot of nuances in this but still.
So it’s absolutely worth it to incur federal student loan debt if it means you will make a lot more more money. Private loan debt is a bit different.
Yes you have the situation correct! I wasn’t sure if it was even the tub or not at first because it took multiple hours for the dripping to subside. I posted this a bit too early …it was definitely the tub and the dripping has finally stopped.
I assumed it was the seal around the tub drain leaking slowly, but I didn’t think about the hairline crack thing. Upon careful examination of the tub basin, there are a bunch of small hairline scratches or possible cracks in the basin near the drain. I didn’t realize that could happen tbh. Was hoping it was the drain because that seemed like an easier fix but now I’m not sure if it really is the basin itself leaking. Is there a way I can determine whether or not the scratches are cosmetic or whether or not this is the source of the leak?
Either way, I’m glad it’s not an immediate emergency!
That’s an interesting theory. I’m not knowledgeable enough to know if that can happen. Where do you think that would cause a pipe to come loose do you think?
Thank you for your comment, but stores aren’t going to be open for a bit still. Do you have any toolless ideas in the meantime?
It’s not free standing, but I don’t see anything that resembles a panel. It’s one of those fairly standard tub/shower combos.
This is metal af honestly. I love that they were able to do this.
Wholesome
That’s interesting. I wonder if I can trick myself into doing stuff like that as a form of punishment. Generally I find myself unable to move so I just stare into space. Sometimes I have a hard time even moving my arms and legs to drive home from work. Or to get out of the car once I’ve parked out front. How do you manage to start?
What made you decide to start dating if you hadn’t done so prior? If you don’t mind me asking. I’m also 30 and haven’t ever dated really so I was just curious.
Wow wtf I had an almost identical dating experience…I went on one or two (can’t remember which) awkward, uncomfortable dates realizing I wasn’t into doing it. I felt really bad about it too!! I was probably early 20s at the time. I’m 30 now and have never tried again.
Sometimes I think about trying again with someone from an ace dating website, but no one on there is mutually interested and geographically close enough.
I am always an “avoid tolls” kind of person. I use Google maps a lot and have never had an issue with this.
But just the other week, I was coming back from a road trip and it kept trying to make me use a rolled expressway!! Wtf!! I even triple checked my settings. I don’t understand wtf is up with that
It’s interesting because this has to be pretty conflicting for that man.
I mean, yes you do have memories at 6 as an adult…but really not many. I know he knew he was taken away from his family. But it says that they kidnapper interestingly raised him to being an adult. I wonder what that relationship between him and his kidnapper was like and if he felt that she had become his adopted mom or not.
Shame his real mother never got to learn that he was alive and well. I’m sure everyone assumed he died…as is what happens to most children who go missing.
Seriously this reads like a sketch. Maybe a Seinfeld one where they all talk about it afterwards lol