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@clacke Sweden's water sounds great.
I have worked in 15 US states and I have never found a place where tap water tastes good. I always have to buy a filter or just buy bottled water.
The worst places were in #Mississippi (Jackson, Starkville #MS), #Louisiana (Baton Rouge #LA) and #California (Irwindale #CA).
In Irwindale, the water came out looking like diluted milk ... and stayed that way several minutes later. It is an old rock quarrying town, so I suspect it was just rock debris suspended in the water.
In Mississippi, the water came out yellow for a few days before getting clear again. The same thing happened in #Baton_Rouge, but it was only one or two days and it only happened once.
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I'd expect #MS to have some similar cases. #Mississippi is the state where courthouses have (or had) Confederate monuments "dedicated to the men who fought for our freedom", and where the #Confederate battle flag was part of the state flag until recently.
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Slowly assembling the team that will work here. K is here, but not in my building. I and E in my building, but are each being sent to take over another one soon.
Advance teams from another agency have shown up, but they (and most of around 50 other federal agencies) are preoccupied with #Louisiana right now. And I guess parts of #Texas, #Mississippi, #Alabama as well.
So far, no familiar faces from other agencies, but I seeing people from $EMPLOYER that I havenβt seen in person since 2015, 2017, 2019.
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#TD #Ida now centered in North Central #Mississippi. As a weakening tropical depression, advisories about Ida will be issued by #NOAA / #WPC instead of NOAA / #NHC.
> ...HEAVY RAIN AND FLOOD THREAT WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD ACROSS
> PARTS OF THE TENNESSEE AND OHIO VALLEY OVERNIGHT INTO
TUESDAY...
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#Ida is now a #TropStorm, with the center over Western #Mississippi. Rains and flooding (including some remaining storm surge) continue in Southeast #Louisiana.
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Ida lands as a category 4 hurricane with estimated sustained winds of 150MPH and gusts of 185MPH. #LA is getting torn up from the winds and the flooding. (I saw storm surge forecasts of 15ft last night, Iβd guess even more ocean water than expected got pushed onshore with this higher wind speed.)
I really hope most people got out of Dodge before the storm arrived. Otherwise, this is conversation with your Maker time in #Louisiana and probably #Mississippi ( #MS ) and #Alabama ( #AL ) right now.
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The new design for #Mississippiβs state flag: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/03/politics/mississippi-new-state-flag-ballot-question/index.html [www cnn com] ... voters approved it during the recent election.
History of #MS state flag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Mississippi [en wikipedia org]
The legislature has to make a final approval, but it sounds like that is a foregone conclusion.
Glad to see the end of their old flag. It sort of said βwe cornfederates are still fightinββ to me.
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#Daddy_A lived in #AZ for a year or two. When I told him how hot it is today, he immediately told me how glad he is to have left #SoCal and #Arizona to move to #NE ( #Nebraska gets both hot and humid, but not as hot as AZ or as humid as #Mississippi ).
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The hottest temperature I ever experienced was 116F sometime around the early 2000s. But 106F and humid (working in El Centro, #California, one year) and 96F and much more humid (working in #Mississippi one year) felt even worse. The awful thing about #MS was that the local people I worked with said it was the coolest Summer in thirty years, while I wondered how people could live there.
#CA #heatwave
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I got a chuckle out of seeing people asking where Belarus is. I attended California public schools. At that time, CA schools were 47th out of the 50 states. As a result, in times like this, I expect everyone who did not live in Mississippi to have received a better education than I did.
Tags: #CA #California #MS #Mississippi #schools #Belarus #politics #protests
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> ... the [US] South and China, two places where people know how to eat.
I haven't been to #China, so I have no opinion on their food (except I know it differs from what we know as #Chinese_food in the US). However, I have worked in #Alabama, #Mississippi, and #Louisiana.
Overall, I was not impressed. #LA had the best food of the three, but it was usually so highly salted that I quickly went back to putting some rice, meat, and beans in a slow-cooker.
The exception was lunchtime: whenever I could make it there, I went to a particular gas station in Baton Rouge to buy lunch. Imagine Popeye's Famous Louisiana chicken, but turned up to 11! (Or maybe Popeye's took the gas station recipe and dialed it down a notch or two.) Anyway, that was good, though that much fried food is naturally unhealthy.
( @p@freespeechextremist.com won't see this, but that's okay. )
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I'd have to say today is the hottest day of the year so far in #SoCal. July and August could be miserable. Just not #Mississippi miserable.
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One year ago: on a cold, rainy #Louisiana day, I met #sonTwo and his wife for a meal in Hammond. It was my first time meeting my daughter-in-law.
There had been tornado warnings most of the way from #Baton_Rouge to Hammond, and up into #Mississippi, where they had spent a night or two camping.
Afterward, they went to New Orleans and then back home to #Florida, but we were under a 50-mile restriction, so I went back to BR.
My son just sent me a photo from that day. I look so OLD in that picture.
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@shpuld @moonman Isn't that a town in #Mississippi?
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@alpacaherder ESR's remarks might be reasonable if he read https://nu.federati.net/notice/492103 and let his position moderate a little. As his position stands now, the local Black population in #Mississippi must continue to see these symbols of injustice standing in places of honor whenever they seek justice in court.
Sure, there are extremists on both sides, and those extremists endanger our nation's survival more than hostile foreign nations do. I just don't think his position (blaming everything on those who'd like to see the statues removed) is either reasonable or workable.
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#Looks like #faveNephew's work is sending him to #Mississippi for a few days. This cancels our planned lunch with his cousin that shares my birthday.
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@1iceloops123 @delores @mangeurdenuage @sim Some of them could be preserved in historical sites. Mt Rushmore is certainly historical. The majority of these statues, on the other hand, were set up in the 1900s as threats to the local Black populations, and should have been removed by the state and local governments years ago.
I spent a few months working in #Mississippi (where the majority of the residents are Black), including in temporary federal offices in county courthouses. I can certainly tell you that _I_ didn't feel _history_ when I had to pass the Confederate monuments in front of those courthouses. I knew the fact that those statues were still in place was their way of saying they were not afraid to get out the rope.
Where the statues don't belong: places of honor, such as courthouses, schools, the state's capitol building.
Where the statues do belong: museums, historic monuments, cemeteries, sites of important events, such as Civil War battles.
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@sim A good number of them were set up in the #1940s, #1950s, #1960s as threats to the Black population. For instance, one Confederate monument in front of a #Mississippi courthouse merited an article in the local paper while I was working in the state because from certain angles, rebel soldier appears to wear a Klan hood.
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I've seen Confederate monuments at #Mississippi courthouses with plaques saying "dedicated to the men who fought for our freedom" ... I know "our" does not include me and my relatives.