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This is how I'm getting water for the next week or so. The hose on the left comes from a source almost a block away. The mains in my house are shut off and water is being pumped through the hose into my house. The faucet is working in reverse.

I'm going to opt not to drink my tap water or use it for cooking until things return to normal. I knew my propensity for keeping 200 bottles of water in the house at all times would eventually come in handy, LOL.

The hose on the right leads to my back yard garden. I'll still be able to water it while the water system is gerry-rigged.

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Well not infront of my house.... but rather behind it!

Four schoolchildren were in hospital tonight after a school bus ploughed into a crowd of youngsters.

Two were said to be "poorly but stable" and two others "comfortable" after a 33-seat Mercedes bus carrying more than 20 children left the road outside English Martyrs School in Hartlepool.

Shocked young eyewitnesses described how the minibus appeared to swerve to avoid a child who had run into the road.

It then ploughed into a fence and a tree where a crowd of children was gathered. Many of the injured are thought to have been from among the children on the street and not on the bus.

Details of exactly what happened are still sketchy but youngsters who witnessed the crash said pupils were running around covered in blood.

Tonight hospitals in the area confirmed 23 people had been taken in for treatment, but only four were detained.

The most seriously injured were two 12-year-old boys who were airlifted by an air ambulance and a police helicopter to James Cook University Hospital, in Middlesbrough.

Tonight a hospital spokeswoman said their condition was "poorly but stable". Police said both were pupils at English Martyrs School.

Two other children detained at the University Hospital of North Tees, in Stockton, are said to be "comfortable".

All the other casualties, who were taken to the hospitals in Stockton and Hartlepool, were later released after treatment.

Pe*er Mu*phy, 14, a pupil at English Martyrs School, said: "There were a lot of groups of children going home from school when one boy ran out into the road in front of the bus.

"It swerved to try and avoid him and as a result it left the road and ploughed into the fence hitting some of the kids in the street.

"Other kids jumped out of the way and were running from the scene screaming. "There was a lot of blood everywhere, it was horrible.

"After that I turned away because it was so unpleasant to look at."

Sta*ey Owe*s, 13, said: "There was people screaming and people were walking around the bus covered in blood.

"Children were just running away from the bus screaming and there was a number of children trapped under the bus."

The incident is now being investigated by Cleveland Police and the bus is still embedded in the fence outside English Martyrs School.

Sergeant Paul Dee, of Cleveland Police, said: "I am led to believe that the vast majority of the casualties were pedestrians.

"The driver of the minibus has been spoken to and has given an account of what happened."

English Martyrs School headteacher Joe Hughes said everyone at the school had been left shocked by the crash.

He said tonight: "Everyone is very concerned and very worried and our thoughts are with the students in hospital.

"We will be praying all through the night that the outcome is the best possible one."

English Martyrs School, a voluntary aided Catholic school, caters for 1,540 children between the ages of 11 and 18 and it is thought that the children on board the minibus were aged around 12 and 13.

Mr Hughes said that he understood there were about 26 children on board the bus and he understood also that it was fitted with seatbelts.

He added: "There are special plans in place for tomorrow to allow us to provide support to all of the students and staff in the school.

"The day will begin with a special staff meeting followed by a series of special assemblies for every year group in turn and counselling support will also be available in school for anyone who requires it."

Hartlepool Borough Council said it would be supporting the school through its children's services departments.

Cleveland Police said the incident in Catcote Road happened just after 3.30pm and involved two vehicles - the bus and a Renault car.

Reports a third vehicle was involved were later found to be false.

A spokesman for the North East Ambulance Service said six ambulances, one rapid response unit, an air ambulance, along with the police helicopter and two ambulance officers attended at the accident as well a specialist transport vehicle.

I put *'s into some names....

and the pic below shows the bush taht crashed into the tree just down the road from me!

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in front of my house

a tree was removed in front of my house today. a storm started the work and the treecutters finished it. i hated to lose a tree, but it was becoming a hazard to my home. (kinda boring after the other stories, huh?) :)
 
Good God, I just thought about your WHITE LOADS--you'd b

And what would Hyacinth "Bouquet" have to say about uncertified water coming into her royal home from unknown and possibly common places?

A call to a highly placed executive at the Royal Water Authority is in order, Eugene.
 
They closed one end of my road today.

For the rest of the summer, it's Local Traffic Only. Over the last several years, the road has seen too much traffic for my tastes, but it'll be beautifully quiet until the road construction ends.

And it's the direction I hardly ever go anyway, so that's no problem for me.

-kevin
 
Last night....

There were 4 major accidents in front of my subdivision. All caused by the first. Heavy wind and rain started the whole thing. I believe 10 cars were involved, and I counted 4 ambulance.
 
there going to re strip and squeal our apt complex parking lot next week... great.. i won't be back until mondya
 
Mowed the lawn and washed the Chrysler after work today. Actually I took a nap until 8 pm and then started that stuff. Got through with the car washing about 9:30 pm.

Some 22 years ago I was most displeased with a giant pit that the phone company decided to sink into the road just in front of my rental home at the time. Normally it wouldn't have bothered me that much, but I was home sick with the flu and did not like be woken up to jackhammers at 7 am. The home was right on the sidewalk - no more than three feet from it - so the din was tremendous. It was, however, a very impressive pit - perfectly rectangular and about 12 feet deep (or so it seemed). You could see all the layers and strata of soil if you held your ACHING HEAD and looked down into it, lol.
 
Brokeback Neighbors

I have a couple of Brokeback neighbors, at least I'm pretty sure they are, but living in suburbia nobody with a so called "alternative" lifestyle is up front about it.

Anybody have any stories about suspect neighbors and how/if they were successful in finding out one way or the other about them? I've got a couple of very interesting single men I've had my eye on in my 'hood and could use some . . . er . . . pointers.

Ralph
 
Mickeyd-- You're absolutely right, I won't be hanging out any wash on the line until the dust settles, so to speak. As for the water supply, I don't even know where it's coming from. It might be from the fire hydrant at the far end of my block, for all I know. There's a series of garden hoses running through all of our lawns off into the distance, but due to the construction I can't see where they're all coming from.
Needless to say, I'm going to drink bottled water until things return to normal.

The guys worked until 8:30 last night. The last couple of hours they were directly in front of my house and every dish in the cupboards was shaking---and I have a solid house! Nick (my foster cat) was freaked out and kept running around, meowing his head off.
 
Brokeback Neighbors

Hey Ralph, here's how I identified the gays in my neighborhood. We discovered our suburban neighborhood through some gay friends who moved there first, and when we moved in we figured we and our friends were the only gay couples in the subdivision. Ah, not so! Our dog evidently possesses a talent as a Gay Dowsing Rod, like one of those sticks that finds water. On one occasion a gay couple approached while the dog and I were playing frisbee in the park, and another time a gay couple walking their dog stopped to chat when they spotted me and my dog in our driveway. Once when Tom and I were doing yardwork in the front yard with the dog bouncing nearby (she's a chocolate lab and is prone to bouncy behavior) some lesbians walked by and gave us the nod. They did not stop to chit-chat.

Based on my experiences, I highly recommened walking a dog through your neighborhood. If there's a gay to be found that dog will find him!
 

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