Hampton Roads residents wrestle with holding back waters
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IT WAS MORE THAN just deja vu for Brian and Chalice Bell when Hurricane Irene hit in August.
They'd definitely lived through the rising water, the damaging winds and the uncertainty of just how much their two-story Inland Colony home in Chesapeake could take during the nor'easter of November 2009.
Except when Irene hit, they were more prepared.
"We all live by The Weather Channel in this neighborhood," said Brian Bell.
So, as he watched the storm approach, Bell, with help from brawny neighbors, rolled up carpets, moved dear items to higher ground and filled up a 36-foot truck with expensive items from his garage workshop and other places, then hauled them away to safety.
By necessity, like other Hampton Roads' residents whose homes have been ravaged by nor'easters, hurricanes or tropical storms, Bell learned all he could about safeguarding his house from future flooding, making sure his insurance worked for him, and protecting his assets and family.
Source: The Virginian-Pilot
Restore moisture to your overly dry soybeans safely and legally
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&Bull; If your bin full of overly dry soybeans needed to be cooled with the dryer fan, and the humidity happened to be 70% or more, that is just something you cannot control…so….
North Dakota State University grain quality specialist Ken Hellevang says the latter is an example of re-wetting grain that can be accomplished, if you have enough time, humidity and airflow. Moisture will flow out of the bin on a day with low humidity, and you will lose bushels. But managing the moisture with a humidity gauge and strategically controlling the fan will help regain some of the lost bushels due to dryness. He wants you to know the moisture does not change throughout the bin during the process, “Instead, a rewetting zone develops and moves slowly through the bin in the direction of the airflow.”
The unfortunate aspect is the fact humidity is not high in the fall, and now is a difficult time to find humidity high enough to force into your bin of overly dry soybeans. If you find a day with high humidity, realize that you are endangering the quality of the beans in the bin, if they get too wet to be stored safely. The best help you have are stirring augers on the bin to blend the grain. You can also empty the bin, move it through a grain handling system, and achieve some limited mixing. Also beware that overly aggressive re-wetting can cause the beans to swell and that will damage a bin.
Source: Pork Magazine
The old staircase second-hand to counter in the halfway of the construction, reaching a marred-floor range where a get together columnar list sat. Neighbourhood somebody has it that a discouraged man, whose congruence has been forgotten, hanged himself from a fan at the top of the staircase
