It has been almost one year since Hurricane Harvey demolished much of South East Texas.
We were the lucky ones having a place to come home to. So many others lost everything due to either flood waters or the winds from the storm leveled everything. Those close to the coast seen record breaking tidal surges and many places have still not recovered. Our area has seen several hurricanes in the past and as you walk through our tiny town on the bay, you will see about half of the town boarded up still from storms in the past. Many homes are abandoned and ran down to the point of disrepair.
Mostly everyone here in our town had roof damage and minor property damage. 15 minutes south and west of us was a different story with building and homes completely destroyed. Traveling 30 minutes east and another hour or so to Houston and all of the rain ravaged thousands of homes and business. Hurricane Harvey will go on to be one of the deadliest and costly storms in history. Initially said to make landfall as a tropical storm, Harvey strengthened to a staggering category 4 hurricane before making landfall.
Here Is A Video Showing It As It Comes In.
We were under a mandatory evacuation and I'm glad we left a day before the massive exodus of people. We almost went to Houston but decided to move further north instead. Looking back that was the right decision as Houston we wrecked with floods. Our home was just to the right of the Eye of the Storm Wall. It was our first hurricane and people said we were on the dirty side of the storm. I'm glad we left but it was tough to make that decision to leave your home and everything you own behind.
Here is a video of Houston.
Our house was on an Island for a long time but we did not go under water like this.
Cleaning up some fallen trees just doesn't seem worthy of complaining though it is alot of hard work.
We still have 2 more trees like this that the hurricane knocked down but not all of the way. It is easier to remove a tree that is standing upright. These trees are dangerous to remove because they are leaning against other trees. Our shed is leaking bad due to the damage and removing the fallen trees so that they do not fall more and crush the building is important.
Before The Cleanup.
The reason I waited so long is I was hoping they would try to straighten up. This is probably silly but sometimes trees that get pushed over with wind will pop back up later. These lost too much roots and continue to fall at a fast rate recently. With the kids playing we were getting scared that they would fall and crush the kids. The building can be replaced and so can the trees. We removed one large tree and stacked up the limbs. We will have to finish up but I became too tired in the heat.
This whole area used to be in the shade. Maybe it will be the new garden spot for next year.
The trees are our neighbor's trees. They even crushed her fence. She is an elderly sweet lady with no help to clean up. The insurance company said they could sue to make her clean it up but that doesn't seem very neighborly. So we decided to not claim this on our insurance and I would take care of it. It is the right thing to do but wow it is super hard work with a few hand tools. No sense in polluting the environment with chainsaws for a few trees. The work out is great also but today I am super tired. Maybe next weekend I will finish the job.
We have several days off work for the American Independence day celebrations so I might take advantage of this time and finish cleaning this all up. I'll keep you updated on the progress.
Thanks for reading.
Just wanted to say thank you to everyone for the support.
Well, what used to be a 100% vote worth 0.34 is now worth 0.06, thanks to all the flaggers (ONE) of my account. See, I'm not the only one affected @binkley you lost out too! As have so many others.
It is such a bogus system of rewards. It could use a step back and a redesign for sure. Let's see if 25 SBD can be converted to Steem Power more effectively by boosting verse buying in the market. My guess is it can and this is why the market internally is less liquid.
I have experimented quite a bit with this, the key is the payout period. The market for boosts is set between two parameters, the 3.5 day mean price and the current market price. You make a lot more if steem/sbd is relatively low when you boost and relatively high when it pays out.
Has this been your experience as well? Feel free to share with me any of your learned tips and/or tricks!
Yes this has been my experience also. I'm not sure how reliable long term it is. The investment of currency for marketing that can then be flagged for no reason makes me nervous really to invest large amounts this way. We had originally planned to structure our voting bots to support community members and allow for basically staking a vote amount when buying our currency Stish. We scrapped these plans 100% due to flagging abuses and no corrective measures. So essentially we had planned to raise 3.5 Million and invest most of that into Steem but it is too risky for most investors.
Yeah I noticed that you found berniesanders. Not sure what his long game is, but he does seem to bother a lot of people. So whats the plan with stish.it? I heard that it was on ethereum but you'll have to get more transactions than can be practical on that one....
What about a SMT when those come out?
SMT were supposed to come out last year. We decided to launch on Ethereum but might consider SMT in the future still as Transaction fees are rough. The Ethereum network did lower mining fees this week to make way for POS vs POW and that should be interesting to see the transition play out. We just had a hard fork and increase the currency supply and made the currency more secure overall plus added more abilities to build dapps off of the currency. The old token served its purpose for the original plan. The Platform is growing and I look forward to seeing more adoption soon. We have not advertised really which is good as we were in beta and still are testing things.
We are testing light wallets now for all members so that they can have access to the top wallets for liquidity. They can use these to tip members by name or make purchases easily. This functionality will be added to Stish once we raise the needed funds. The end game is to have Members be able to easily earn Stish and use it from Stishit. So they can tip each other with Stish or trade it for another currency from within the platform. Ultimately we want to simply the whole crypto business so everyday people can get involved. It hasn't been easy but from where we were to where we are is huge!
With our hybrid build we are taking advantage of the best of both worlds. https://Stishit.net or https://Stish.io is becoming a leader in micro crypto economies and after the Token Event I look forward to seeing where we end up trading on some real exchanges. I think we will do better than many expect.
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This is what I seen when submitting. Not that is actual did submit. This is why there are 2. Steemit is very glitchy lately.
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i want to make a web page grouping my followers and make them find newest posts for each other and can post throw the same page no need to get in steemit ,all activities on steemit become from my page.
i found a comment for you here
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you talk about regex..
How can i achieve this as a real world application.
This has been fun
Has everything gotten cleaned up alright?
Hi Binkley! I'm not sure this is the appropriate place to contact you....how's the clean up going?
Retired in Samar sent me over to talk about STISH-IT. Whats the deal, give me the new, the run down, low down info! Or maybe we can just start a conversation ;p
Cheers!
Feel free to message me on https://Stishit.net. Or telegram works well usually.
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I have an account on Stishit now! I don't really know yet what it is or what I am doing, but I have the same user name!
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