eekuasepinniW Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 The overwhelming onslaught of gold finches is getting out of control. I filled both feeders this morning and both were empty by dark. That's 6 pounds of seed in one day. Thankfully lots of high intensity white throated sparrow singing has been going on to soothe me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 1 hour ago, eekuasepinniW said: The overwhelming onslaught of gold finches is getting out of control. I filled both feeders this morning and both were empty by dark. That's 6 pounds of seed in one day. Thankfully lots of high intensity white throated sparrow singing has been going on to soothe me. The amount of baby birds chirping at sunrise was insane this morning. Huge red tail was cruising ... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted April 30, 2022 Author Share Posted April 30, 2022 9 hours ago, Ginx snewx said: The amount of baby birds chirping at sunrise was insane this morning. Huge red tail was cruising ... The amount of hawks in my area is astounding. Never saw them growing up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthCoastMA Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 home heating oil today was $6.11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 I stayed here once. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted April 30, 2022 Author Share Posted April 30, 2022 Was just looking at that on Twitter. Some reports of people jumping off balconies. Spreading into dry woods. That sucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 4 hours ago, SouthCoastMA said: home heating oil today was $6.11 My tank is uncomfortably low and Stafford Oil is showing todays price as 6.49 a gallon. Omg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 2 hours ago, Ginx snewx said: I stayed here once. Sad. I was looking at their website a while back. Neat property. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 37 minutes ago, eekuasepinniW said: Sad. I was looking at their website a while back. Neat property. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TauntonBlizzard2013 Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 2 hours ago, Ginx snewx said: That’s too bad. Hope everyone is okay. Looks like a total loss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 5 hours ago, Ginx snewx said: I stayed here once. Yeah, when I was a teenager my family stayed there a few times. Bummer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 Ah that's awful. Hate to see a good legacy hotel go down. One with history from another time of NNE. Sad for all the employees and people who love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 That is sad. Heading into prime season too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted May 1, 2022 Author Share Posted May 1, 2022 Looks like at least 75 rooms damaged/destroyed I would think smoke and water damage would be extensive That blows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STILL N OF PIKE Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Lava Rock Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 Seems crazy how fast that fire spread in the middle of the day in an urban area. Be interested in the cause Sent from my SM-G981U1 using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 17 minutes ago, Lava Rock said: Seems crazy how fast that fire spread in the middle of the day in an urban area. Be interested in the cause Sent from my SM-G981U1 using Tapatalk Old wood structure obviously no sprinkler system 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 Old wood structure obviously no sprinkler system My wife mentioned the sprinkler sys or lack thereof. How could they operate without one?Sent from my SM-G981U1 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted May 1, 2022 Author Share Posted May 1, 2022 1 hour ago, Lava Rock said: My wife mentioned the sprinkler sys or lack thereof. How could they operate without one? Sent from my SM-G981U1 using Tapatalk Live free or die. Built in 1971 it looks like. Prob grandfathered in? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 Anyone know anything about carpenter bee behavior? There was one flying around my nesting boxes this afternoon that I was trying to keep out. They normally burrow up near the roof of the coop every year. Anyway, I went outside this evening to clean the boxes and noticed 9 dead carpenter bees on the ground below that spot that weren’t there earlier. Is it likely that the other bee pulled them out of the top of the coop and that they were already dead while overwintering? I’ve never seen that before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 I assume these are all males that mated and died? But all in the same spot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TauntonBlizzard2013 Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 5 hours ago, Lava Rock said: My wife mentioned the sprinkler sys or lack thereof. How could they operate without one? Sent from my SM-G981U1 using Tapatalk 4 hours ago, HoarfrostHubb said: Live free or die. Built in 1971 it looks like. Prob grandfathered in? Seems like it was grandfathered in without sprinklers. Multiple stories of smoke detectors not working. Lawsuits will be fired up by the end of the week. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 26 minutes ago, dendrite said: I assume these are all males that mated and died? But all in the same spot? Found this… https://ecoipm.org/2017/03/23/dont-fret-over-a-few-dead-bees/ Quote This was the case yesterday when someone sent pictures of dead carpenter bees on their deck to a list serve I am part of. Dave Shetlar (Bugdoc Dave) from Ohio State University sent a quick response that is was natural for some bees to die over winter. The live bees just push them out onto the ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 8 hours ago, dendrite said: I assume these are all males that mated and died? But all in the same spot? Orgy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 8 hours ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said: Seems like it was grandfathered in without sprinklers. Multiple stories of smoke detectors not working. Lawsuits will be fired up by the end of the week. Cause of fire? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modfan2 Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 9 hours ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said: Seems like it was grandfathered in without sprinklers. Multiple stories of smoke detectors not working. Lawsuits will be fired up by the end of the week. Below is a recap by one of the people staying on the fire side of the inn I want to start this by saying, it’s true you never know what you would do in this situation until you’re in it. My biggest fear has always been getting caught in a fire. Unfortunately, that fear became a reality that I’m still trying to wrap my head around. All I want to say at this time, is that Paul Bevis quite literally saved my son and I’s lives. We had fallen asleep for a nap before heading out to the water park for the second time today and if it wasn’t for his phone alarm going off to wake us all up for the water park, who knows what would have happened. We woke up to the room full of smoke. The smoke detectors failed to go off and sprinklers failed as well. Paul went to check to see if we could escape the room through the hallway and as soon as he opened the door, the room immediately was englufed in black smoke to the point it was choking us. We ran to the balcony and saw that the room to the left of us and as far down as we could see through the smoke, all of those rooms were on fire as well. The only way to go was right but there were dividers to separate each rooms balcony. I grabbed Kellan and told him he needed to army crawl under each one as far as we could because the fire was spreading our way. We needed more time and more air. So we crawled under about 3 or 4 before we hit a concrete wall instead of a divider; we couldn’t go any further away from the fire. By this time, a family with a wife, husband and their two boys were with us trying to find a way down. It was too high to jump from the 3rd floor to the ground. Paul Hurled himself over the railing (til my last day I will NEVER understand how he did what he did) and swung himself to the balcony below us which was the main floor of the hotel. He then told me to hand him my son to get him away from the flames, heat and suffocating black smoke. I Handed Kellan to Paul & Paul RAN my son to safety out an emergency exit while the women handed one of her sons to her husband who had done the same as Paul. Meanwhile myself and this women and one of her sons are still trapped trying to fight the smoke. Paul then comes BACK (after fighting through someone trying to stop him from running back into the burning building) and helps this women and husband save their second child. Once the husband got his children to safety, Paul had told me “YOU NEED TO JUMP!” And I froze terrified. Screaming I couldn’t because I wouldn’t make it. I couldn’t angle myself how he had to make it to the second floor balcony. I heard Paul once more and then a fire fighter (who had come to the front of the building on the first floor) and they screamed “YOU NEED TO JUMP NOW”. Right as he said it, there was an insanely loud crashing/exploding sound and I just jumped. Paul managed to grab me BY MY ANKLES and swung me on to the second floor balcony where he was. I knocked out for half a second and woke up to him about to drag me to safety. I came to and my first thing out of my mouth was “WHERE IS KELLAN” and I jumped up. Paul took off down the hall forgetting he had given Kellan to the staff member at the emergency exit prior to running back in. I saw Paul go left towards the exit screaming for Kellan, so I went right to cover more ground looking for him. I made it about one hotel room over before the fire was back in my face and the smoke was making it impossible to see. I turned back to the emergency exits and booked it down the hall running outside screaming “has anyone seen a five year old boy”. By the grace of God, Paul had my son wrapped in his arms.. I will NEVER be able to repay this man for his heroism and bravery. He saved not only my life and my sons, but another woman’s children as well. We may have lost everything in that fire, but we did not lose our lives and that is entirely thanks to this man. I don’t know many people who would run back into a burning, collapsing building to save us, but that is EXACTLY what he did. I know he doesn’t want recognition for this, but it’s not every day that you save multiple lives from dying by being trapped in a fire. I know everyone is going to reach out and check in, that is why I wanted to put exactly what happened out there now so I don’t have to explain it over and over. But more than anything, I want everyone to know that my boyfriend is an absolute hero and I would quite literally not be alive to write this had he not acted as quickly as he did. Kellan was treated at the hospital for smoke inhalation. His carbon monoxide was 12 ; normal levels for a kid are between 0-5. Thankfully, he was released a few hours ago after a long night of getting those levels back to where they need to be. Now it’s just fighting the nightmares and the flashes that play as we close our eyes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianW Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 I use to work in a lot commercial buildings and you would be amazed on how many fire systems are completely neglected and not working. Sprinkler rooms that look like they have been leaking for a decade with the last service tag from 12 years ago. I have seen tons of building fire panels just dead and not even have power. So many companies skimp on maintaining their fire systems and most towns and cities have no annual inspections on that stuff so places get away with neglecting it. I bet sadly that's exactly what happened here. Most of the sprinkler systems that far up north are filled with compressed air due to the freeze risk. There is a valve that is supposed to activate when a sprinkler head or two activates and it senses the air pressure drop and sends water to the pipes. They are very complicated systems compared to ones that are just pressurized with water. The air pumps that keep the system pressurized are known to have issues and if the pump is dead the sprinklers won't work at all. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TauntonBlizzard2013 Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 1 hour ago, Ginx snewx said: Cause of fire? Who knows… sounds like the building was a tinderbox death trap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TauntonBlizzard2013 Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 19 minutes ago, BrianW said: I use to work in a lot commercial buildings and you would be amazed on how many fire systems are completely neglected and not working. Sprinkler rooms that look like they have been leaking for a decade with the last service tag from 12 years ago. I have seen tons of building fire panels just dead and not even have power. So many companies skimp on maintaining their fire systems and most towns and cities have no annual inspections on that stuff so places get away with neglecting it. I bet sadly that's exactly what happened here. Most of the sprinkler systems that far up north are filled with compressed air due to the freeze risk. There is a valve that is supposed to activate when a sprinkler head or two activates and it senses the air pressure drop and sends water to the pipes. They are very complicated systems compared to ones that are just pressurized with water. The air pumps that keep the system pressurized are known to have issues and if the pump is dead the sprinklers won't work. My guess is that place will never open its doors again, even if part of the building is able to be saved. No working smoke detectors or sprinklers, etc etc. it’s going to be a litigation nightmare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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