[AT] Merry Christmas

[Richard Walker]

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