ismaelg Posted September 24, 2008 Posted September 24, 2008 I might need to do a 1:1 Noah's Ark. Authorities are saying this is the heaviest rain in over 100 years of records. Over 26 inches of rain in 24 hours and counting. Hey! This was supposed to be a Rain Forest, not Atlantis
Jairus Posted September 24, 2008 Posted September 24, 2008 Oh come on... you live on an island! How bad can it get? At least the lawn gets watered.....
cruzn Posted September 24, 2008 Posted September 24, 2008 I might need to do a 1:1 Noah's Ark. Authorities are saying this is the heaviest rain in over 100 years of records. Over 26 inches of rain in 24 hours and counting. Hey! This was supposed to be a Rain Forest, not Atlantis Ismael.. all You Need to know to build the ark is the Measurement of a Cubit.. and go from there.
RodneyBad Posted September 24, 2008 Posted September 24, 2008 I forget the size but most of the info is here
Gregg Posted September 24, 2008 Posted September 24, 2008 It better stop, or I will cancel my flight!!!
RadRidesByDan Posted September 24, 2008 Posted September 24, 2008 length....1 cubit = 1.457 feet ......or 1 foot = 0.686486486486 cubits Hope this helps to build your ark .......50 cubits would = 72.85 feet in length
diymirage Posted September 24, 2008 Posted September 24, 2008 here ya go Ge 6:13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Ge 6:14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. Ge 6:15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. Ge 6:16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
ismaelg Posted September 24, 2008 Author Posted September 24, 2008 It better stop, or I will cancel my flight!!! Don't you dare! It stopped. Besides, you do know how to swim right?
Guest zebm1 Posted September 24, 2008 Posted September 24, 2008 Well we all know that Izzy has the technical skills, and now he know's what a Cubit is....BUT, where's he gonna find any Gopher wood?
george 53 Posted September 24, 2008 Posted September 24, 2008 Naw, Zeb, I think it meant "Go Fer" wood. But so many folks have had their hand in it who knows what it really means. God Almighty din't write the book, mortal men did, claiming God told them, but who knows? We're DEFINATELY NOT perfect!
bobss396 Posted September 24, 2008 Posted September 24, 2008 Is it 40 days and 40 nights yet? If not, keep treading water and put the kit decals in ziploc bags. Bob
BIGTRUCK Posted September 24, 2008 Posted September 24, 2008 Izzy we also had record rains here in Chicago about 2 weeks ago......in 19 years of living here I thought my basement was pretty safe from water so I moved all my stash down and even put in bigger pumps and a back up system...I was luckier than most in my area only getting 10 inches of water in the basement...85 kits got soaked........now moving everything to higher ground on the second floor where it was before.......now the clean up is over and back to normal but I have to get some model boxes to put the dried out kits in......I know what to look for at the 'Plastic kit show' in dupage this sunday... BEFORE........ AFTER
Joe Handley Posted September 24, 2008 Posted September 24, 2008 (edited) That sucks Ken, we got a good amount on the Dupage/Kane County boarder but luckily nothing like that at home. I was talking to somebody yesterday who lives in Bartlett and he watched some kids ride bikes through a flooded parking lot and one of them dumped their bike....when this kid went down he completely disappeared under the water He also ran across a full size van in about 3ft of water (literally half sunk!) BTW, do you still listen to The Loop? Edited September 24, 2008 by Joe Handley
MrObsessive Posted September 24, 2008 Posted September 24, 2008 We had super heavy rains from Tropical Storm Hanna here in South Central PA a couple weekends ago. I've lived in my house now for two years and have seen some pretty burly rainstorms but the basement for the most part stayed dry.............it rained so much here that I had water trickling into my basement for at least a week after the rain had stopped! Half of the basement floor was wet....even to the point where my cats wouldn't go down there to use the litter box. One of them made a "point" of letting me know he wasn't going down there by leaving me a present to greet me when I came home from work one morning! Needless to say, the models that were stored in the basement were getting wet, and I had the real fun task of moving 16 storage boxes of models from the basement to the third floor. Trust me..............that's where they will be forever------I've got way too many stairs to keep moving 'em back and forth every time it rains! I do have a sump pump in my basement put in by the previous owners when the basement took on a foot of water from a tropical storm years ago..............but it hasn't worked this hard since I moved in.
Joe Handley Posted September 24, 2008 Posted September 24, 2008 (edited) Guys when it comes to flooded basements and models.... Rubbermade is your friend! Trust me on this, even though most of my collection is in a storage area instead of a basement (or built and on display ), those have already paid for them selves to boot!!!!!!!! Just look at places like Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Meijer, and the like for sales on that type of product. Not only is it easier to keep things dry, , but they stack neatly and they work great if you are moving and need to transport things! Edited September 24, 2008 by Joe Handley
Brendan Posted September 24, 2008 Posted September 24, 2008 You Wuss. Try living in Oregon in the Banana Belt. During the winter, we get several months of non-stop rain. We get sometimes 13 to 14 inches in an hour. We also get 100 mph wind gusts.
ismaelg Posted September 24, 2008 Author Posted September 24, 2008 You Wuss. Try living in Oregon in the Banana Belt. During the winter, we get several months of non-stop rain. We get sometimes 13 to 14 inches in an hour. We also get 100 mph wind gusts. OK you win. But I prefer banana splits to Banana belts
Harry P. Posted September 24, 2008 Posted September 24, 2008 ok, here ya go. As far as where to find a ruler in cubits, you're on your own. Now get busy!
Eshaver Posted September 24, 2008 Posted September 24, 2008 ok, here ya go. As far as where to find a ruler in cubits, you're on your own. Now get busy! Harry, where the heck wer you when the folks on Galveston Island were stuck on Interstate 45 trying to just get past Texas city and the wind was a whippin and the rain a commin and an an ana ana ana na anman a amnan Ed Shaver Former resident of Houston(1974-81)
Harry P. Posted September 24, 2008 Posted September 24, 2008 I was sitting in my dry house watching news coverage and wondering why the heck it is that people insist on living in areas that are so prone to hurricanes!
ismaelg Posted September 24, 2008 Author Posted September 24, 2008 Harry, For the same reason I wonder how people live in places that freeze
Jairus Posted September 24, 2008 Posted September 24, 2008 Harry, that is a very interesting drawing.... where did it come from please?
Jairus Posted September 24, 2008 Posted September 24, 2008 Izzy, as winter approaches... I am beginning to wonder the same thing! But turning up the thermostat vs. boarding up the windows.... I will go with cold all the time!
Harry P. Posted September 24, 2008 Posted September 24, 2008 (edited) Harry, that is a very interesting drawing.... where did it come from please? My friend Google helped me find it... http://www.barry.warmkessel.com/barry/windsor2.html Edited September 24, 2008 by harrypri
Harry P. Posted September 24, 2008 Posted September 24, 2008 Izzy, as winter approaches... I am beginning to wonder the same thing! But turning up the thermostat vs. boarding up the windows.... I will go with cold all the time! If that's a current photo of your house, and you have snow on the ground in September, all I can say is OUCH! BTW... in the 80s here.
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