wow, really? mud slide drills? i remember fire drills too skag. what does one do in a mud slide drill? (not mud wrestling hick
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we dont really have many areas in michigan we have to worry bout that sort of stuff like mud slides, rocks falling(covering roads), and we see those on the AP news when they happen, and are speechless. we have fire drills, and tornado drills in our schools here. we want them to step up the tornado drills with recent events this spring.
i used to travel for work alot, and drove as far west from here as manhattan, kansas weekly, and that area had rock slide signs on the freeways. there and arkansas, and hills of kentucky. i could see nearly 50 miles on a clear day in kansas. i never knew you could see something so far away without something blocking your view.
there were some real interesting buildings in some of the towns i delivered to in kansas. made from the rocks, that i seen being cut by machines to make the freeways safe by shoring up the side walls. i remember one smaller towns bank was built from the slate looking rocks, and what really caught my eye, there was a hitching post out front in the parking area for horses. also at the post office too! those places were unique to me.
theres alot of older farm houses here that were built from large field rock. also used as property line fences, of rock walls. i've always wanted to build a wishing well out of rocks, so i began collecting rocks from my journeys to different states. each rock had a story. believe it or not, my ex wife took not only my money in our divorce, but she also kept those rocks too! so i can actually say, i lost my rocks!
i never got those back, and the idea of the wishing well faded til recently, and i began collecting rocks again. the well won't have as many stories, cause now all the rocks i'm gathering are local, but my well will get built!
(maybe a mini version of the original plan.
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very nice pics everyone. thanks for sharing...peace...
