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coopasonic wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 9:53 am Pro Homeowner Tip: If you smells gas, call your plumber, not the gas company. Friday afternoon my wife said she smelled gas after the HVAC guy came to add coolant to our system that has been leaking for years (only $8k to replace it!). I didn't smell up, but that's not a shock as I barely smell anything with my allergies. She called the gas company, they used their sniffer and said yup, has leak, turned off our gas, told us to call a plumber and left. This was at 4pm on Friday. It was 39 degrees overnight. Luckily our house is really well insulated and it only got down to around 60 inside.

Saturday we got the plumber out and he only saw leakage at like 35+ psi, which is not the kind of pressure you see coming into the system so not really a problem. City offices are closed/emergency only but I guess not being able to heat our home, cook our food or heat our water counts so the plumber is working on a permit to reseal a few connections to satisfy the gas company and maybe, just maybe I will be able to take a hot shower by end of day today.

Basically we are going to be about $1k out of pocket because my wife has a sensitive nose. Better safe than sorry, I guess?

Loss of smell and taste could be coronavirus symptoms

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Loss of smell and taste could be symptoms of the novel coronavirus, according to ENT UK, a professional organization representing ear, nose and throat surgeons in the United Kingdom. CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 4:31 pm I've been siting here for 30+ minutes not wanting to type that (I'm a one-trick-pony, I know), so thanks.

The 1918 “Spanish” influenza arrived in March and fell many soldiers, citizens and staff in this area. Eighty-eight prisoners died from the disease and were buried together at the National Cemetery in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Combined with the few POWs who died while held here during World War II, the Chattanooga National Cemetery is the only cemetery on American soil which holds both World War I and World War II German soldiers. Their area is marked by a monument placed there by the German government and is decorated each year in November during National Day of Remembrance celebrated by the German nation.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (CN) – There’s little indication from looking at it that a pillar in a cemetery in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was erected by representatives of Nazi Germany on the eve of World War II.

It bears no swastika. Its inscription in German makes no mention of the Third Reich, a master race or even a message glorifying war, as the Nazis were known to do.

Unlike monuments to the Confederacy – many of which were erected decades after the U.S. Civil War – the Nazi German government erected the monument in Chattanooga before the world knew of concentration camps, the Holocaust, blitzkriegs and fire bombings.

Members from Nazi Germany’s diplomatic mission to the United States quietly installed the pillar in 1935 to memorialize German prisoners of war who died in America during World War I.

It stands in the Chattanooga National Cemetery among the graves of the German POWs, on the side of a hill surrounded by rows of white tombstones for American veterans.

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 25, 2020 8:26 am I've been a loner all my life.
Now I realize that I have just been self isolating all that time.
So if anybody needs help in that area just ask me about it.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 7:32 pm I think my blood pressure medicine has started making me seriously have to go pee a LOT.

Sandoz Canada is recalling batches of Sandoz Valsartan Film-coated tablets at the pharmacist and wholesaler levels. Please note that the recall does not affect Sandoz Valsartan HCT in Canada or any Novartis Pharmaceuticals (Novartis) products containing valsartan, namely Diovan®, Diovan/HCT® and Entresto®. A different API source is used for the above products.

This decision was made in collaboration with Health Canada following the discovery of a substance in the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API). Sandoz is committed to ensuring that all our marketed products meet the highest quality standards and therefore has decided to proceed with the recall in collaboration with Health Canada.

LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Thu Mar 26, 2020 11:18 pm I liked the butter too, new one to me. Didn't like the toddler getting crushed by the laptop though. I mean serves him right but ouch.

LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Thu Mar 26, 2020 11:18 pm I liked the butter too, new one to me. Didn't like the toddler getting crushed by the laptop though. I mean serves him right but ouch.

By using hot water instead of cold/tepid water to create a solution, you can render the active ingredients in bleach ineffective, making it totally useless.

So for bleach that works, always make sure you dilute it in cold/tepid water.