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Comments (14)I think you are right about that changing the look to forget what happened. I grew up on L.I. and have relatives there that thankfully, were spared. I heard that the insurance companies are really taking a long time to respond, I hope yours has been good to you. On a lighter note, have you heard Adam Sandler's "tribute" to Sandy? (To the tune of "Hallelujah") When I heard it, it reminded me of how wonderful the people of that area come together in bad times. Please post after pics when you are done with your update/renovations....See MoreFrozen Pipes Burst? - Share your experience!
Comments (82)A couple of years ago (2013) inherited a beautiful well kept 2 story home from my grandmother. Living between 5 and 6 hours away and very busy at the time I was unable to spend alot of time there. When winter rolled around I had the utilities turned off in the interest of saving the money that it would cost to keep the place heated so the pipes wouldn't freeze. Of course I was busy and did so over the phone. Well I didn't make it back until spring and time to mow the grass. What I found when I unlocked the door broke my heart. My grandmother's beautiful house had wet plaster from the ceiling and walls on the floor with water dripping from the ceiling The kitchen faucet had frozen and when it thawed was running wide open. Fortunately that water was going right down the drain and obviously where the majority of the water was going. The line going to the toilet upstairs had also bust and was what had caused the flooding in the downstairs bathroom an adjoining bedroom, hallway and about half the kitchen. As it turns out yes, the water co. turned the water off but they didn't turn it all the way off resulting in reduced water pressure but pressure none the less. There was only about three inches of water in the basement but it had been wet long enough that mold was growing rampant. It seems that the kitchen faucet running wide open allowed MOST of the water to go right down the drain otherwise I'm sure the basement would've filled up. I took off work for the next couple of weeks to clean up and neutralize the damage. What a mess! Of course insurance opted out because the house was unoccupied. I have since replaced all the faucets and a couple of pipes that split and am finishing the sheetrock work and replacing the carpet and hardwood floors that buckled. It's been a slow go but am preparing to move in soon. I just received my 1st water bill since having it turned back on and am having a hard time swallowing that pill after all the time and money I've been out repairing everything, when in my mind this all could've been avoided had the water been shut off like I had requested! I don't think I should have to pay it. The only advice I've gotten is that " you can't fight city hall"... Maybe not but that doesn't make it right! Needless to say I'm not happy with the water company... Thanks for reading. I just had to vent a lil....See MoreAre you an empty nester? Share your story!
Comments (111)thedarlingbecca, you are right in that respect, it is very difficult there to know what to do. Our retirement centres sound like they have the same 3 levels as you do and it is definitely advantageous to enter at the independent living level, but here buying into independent living accommodation with the other two levels attached, if you read the fine print, still does not guarantee they will be able to provide a higher level of care just when you need it, and you could still find yourself shunted elsewhere. They have no way of knowing a year or more in advance just what accommodation they will have available at any particular time. If you do consider this, do check that that out, and what options they offer. Sometimes they can allow you to stay in your independent living accommodation and still provide the extra services you may need - depending of course on what those are. Again, depending on needs, it can also be possible to buy into independent living to get your foot in the door and provide your own assistance until such time as you can get the more intense assisted living. We also have serviced apartments here one can buy into where one lives independently but cleaning and linen service is provided and meals are taken in a common dining room - generally a la carte and very upmarket, while breakfast is a hamper provided in your apartment that will only have very basic kitchen facilities. You can pay for guests to join you for meals. When it comes to the assisted living and full nursing homes here ALL facilities have to provide the same level of basic care - it is Government regulated and regularly inspected. When I was on this trail for my mother I found the private facilities with greater costs really did not provide options that many elderly people could use. I remember one was the option of a glass of wine with meals - my mother never drank in her whole life and any form of alcohol could not be taken with her medications. Many of these glossy brochures sound good, but you do need to thoroughly investigate all the options, consider all your worst case scenarios and ensure you are really going to be advantaged by the many promises they make....See MoreShare Your Best Weird-Neighbor Story
Comments (607)If there was more money to pay for it, those drug offenders should/would be going into treatment. The way to change things is to make sure to vote, get your friends, family, and everyone you know to stop thinking that their one vote won't matter and go cast it when election day rolls around. The blockheads in congress got their jobs by making an appeal to fear, an appeal to regression, and an appeal to jerks who were sufficiently riled up by the campaigning and their choice in news outlets to vote in greater numbers than this country's moderate voters. Given the institutional prejudices in our country, the road out of this mess is going to be a rough and long one, but worth going down to get the end result. @capeanner; it's extremely difficult for someone to find work after going to jail or prison, and it sets them up to fail on a repeating cycle. Many grow up in poverty stricken neighborhoods with poor quality schools because there's not much money in teaching and it's hard to attract new people to the profession much less to jobs at schools in poor areas - not all districts are willing to offer 'hazard pay'. Kids are increasingly taught around what they'll need to know for state and federal mandated assessment tests, arts/music classes are the first to be eliminated, physical activity/education is almost non-existent in many areas, and the working world they'll enter down the road isn't one I see being as STEM-heavy as many think...who will we call when there's a plumbing problem, who will fix our cars, and all of the other things that we rely on the tradesmen/women to do? The people we call now aren't going to be in the business forever, they will eventually retire or (if they're the workaholic type they'll work until they drop dead!) physically their body decides to make them retire. And not everyone is 4-year university + grad school or beyond-type material. I know a lot of younger people have been told they're brilliant and there's nothing they can't succeed in, but while I understand that parents don't want their kid to have low self-esteem, not everyone is going to become famous or fabulously rich, not everyone can be a biophysicist, and we need more of the 'average' type doing 'regular' jobs anyway. We need to start pushing back at those who stubbornly fight against 'letting' other groups of people have the same rights that we do, and insist that they are the only ones who 'deserve' such 'privileges'. We need to quit trying to control what other people get to buy at the grocery store because our taxes pay for their food stamps, and whether they'll be allowed in which bathroom because we don't quite understand where they're coming from. We need to encourage men of all generations to really and fully see women as people not things, which is just the tip of the iceberg of what we need to recognize is a festering sore that is the state of relations between men and women. We may have made domestic violence, rape, child abuse, and stalking a crime but look how victims are treated! How often they have to fight to be believed! We can do SO much better as a society!...See MoreRaeAnna
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