[AT] Merry Christmas - Now mud removal video

[Mike]

Wow Richard, I skipped right over that one, thanks for the video, what  
a mess! You guys look like you have it down to a science, has this 
happened before?

Mike M

On 12/29/2014 10:55 AM, Gunnells, Bradley R wrote:
> Richard that is quite a mess to have to clean up. I feel for those folks.
>
> I watched that video. Didn’t you have some Cat equipment? I was hoping to see something with tracks in that video aside from that little Toro unit. That thing looks like it would wear you out operating it after a while. But it is far less tiring than a shovel.  ;-)
>
> Thanks for sharing that.
>
> Brad
>
>> On Dec 25, 2014, at 2:50 PM, Richard Walker <richardwalker at pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> A very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from out here on the left coast.
>>
>> Have mostly lurked recently, but am currently using my old equipment
>> assisting neighbors clean up from mud slides.  So thought you guys might
>> find this interesting.  A brush fire in 2013 burned the wilderness
>> foothill canyon and its steep hillsides to our west, and now every time
>> it rains there are major problems as water, mud and debris rush out of
>> the canyon mouth.
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4496_nd9ig
>>
>> Judy and I live on higher ground and are OK, but some folks live
>> directly in the line of flow.  Note our neighbor's steel shed at 0.42
>> seconds in (intact in March after the first mud flow) and then again at
>> 3:00 minutes in (destroyed, taken two weeks ago).  A flash flood of mud
>> and water roaring down out of the canyon slammed into its side and
>> ruined it.
>>
>> We've unfortunately lost quite a few of the Cub owners who used to
>> regularly post, either from passing away or through leaving ATIS. While
>> operating my old LowBoy with a box scraper and rear blade, I couldn't
>> help thinking of guys like Mike Sloane, Jim Becker, Bob Brooks, Farmer,
>> George Willer, and others.  Thanks, Spencer, you sure started a good
>> thing - was it back in '94 that ATIS first originated using the Forsyth
>> County server?
>>
>>
>> -  Richard
>>
>> Richard and Judy Walker
>> Monrovia, California
>>
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