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RZucker

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Wherever I end up
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Mechanic/welder
Yep!!!


If I didn't have to work I'd probably take my sled over to easton ;) although my buddy said they had a lot of snow melt last few weeks :(

I used to enjoy late season slush rides, and jumping the thousand streams going northwest from Easton to Cabin Creek. My old 97 Summit had the skid frame tuned for lift when you punched it. Kinda sucked on hard pack trails cause the skis didn't touch... oh well, ride it like a bicycle. :)
 

AllDodge

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Apr 2, 2011
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Location
Kentucky
With all the shut downs many states are not allowing for utility shut off's. So just need to keep the roof and food if need be
 

Greatwestcam

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Sep 14, 2010
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382
Location
Northern Alberta
Occupation
Driver/Mechanic
Our whole shop crew got told to stay home due to the Wuehan flue and oil taking a dive. said if you can find other work go for it as this could be 2 weeks, 2 months or years, no one knows at this point
 

92U 3406

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Jan 3, 2017
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Western Canuckistan
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Wrench Bender
Our whole shop crew got told to stay home due to the Wuehan flue and oil taking a dive. said if you can find other work go for it as this could be 2 weeks, 2 months or years, no one knows at this point

Far as I know we're going to keep working. If they tell us to go home, well I could use another vacation.
 

AzIron

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Jun 14, 2016
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Az
Export hay has slowed some, so I'm not seeing as much truck traffic as usual. But i have 4 sets of trailers to go through brakes and lights without the rush factor.

Export market is way down here a friend told me that Saudi Arabia is sitting on a lot of hay from last year so they are only buying high test hay and since the farm like 15000 acres here locally themselves any of there own hay that doesn't test high enough will get sold locally
 

wornout wrench

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Feb 17, 2012
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740
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canada
Retired so work wise, no effect on me.
But the province is going all out. Declared a state of emergency today.
everything is cancelled.
Schools are done for the year

No dentists, they all went to a dental conference and there was a carrier there so they are all in isolation.
Now, I am asking myself, are dentist's not considered part of health care?
Why the F would they go to a conference just when all of this is going on. 15,000 people were at it.

I am trying to keep away from people, the social distance thing, my wife is at risk so I DO NOT want to bring anything home. I still need to go to the store at some point.
Had to go today, this woman right behind at the til me was darn near on top of me, when I asked for some room I got the dagger eyes.
So social distance is 2 meters (6 feet). If I can swing and pop someone in the nose because they are in my bubble is it still considered assault?
 

Spud_Monkey

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Sep 15, 2018
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Location
Your six
Occupation
Decommissioned
Social di
Retired so work wise, no effect on me.
But the province is going all out. Declared a state of emergency today.
everything is cancelled.
Schools are done for the year

No dentists, they all went to a dental conference and there was a carrier there so they are all in isolation.
Now, I am asking myself, are dentist's not considered part of health care?
Why the F would they go to a conference just when all of this is going on. 15,000 people were at it.

I am trying to keep away from people, the social distance thing, my wife is at risk so I DO NOT want to bring anything home. I still need to go to the store at some point.
Had to go today, this woman right behind at the til me was darn near on top of me, when I asked for some room I got the dagger eyes.
So social distance is 2 meters (6 feet). If I can swing and pop someone in the nose because they are in my bubble is it still considered assault?
Social distance has always been around me long before this, my wife actively acts as barrier to put distance between me and others due to my PTSD from war.
 

KSSS

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Feb 27, 2005
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4,319
Location
Idaho
Occupation
excavation
What a joke.... the economic hardship is gonna kill more than anything

Yea the medical aspects aside, this is going to kill (perhaps for a long time) what was such an excellent economy. Bankrupt businesses, large scale unemployment, damn almost hard to believe it could go from Chicken salad to Chicken sh!t so fast.
 

seatwarmer

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Mar 13, 2013
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South Africa
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Enterprise Engineer
Social di

Social distance has always been around me long before this, my wife actively acts as barrier to put distance between me and others due to my PTSD from war.

Never been a social creature or touchy feely kind of person. And I know your pain with the PTSD. Just heard a remark from a manager about me that prefer to sit in data centers away from people insinuating that I'm mad.
 

Truck Shop

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Dec 7, 2015
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WWW.
This is a situation that's been long in arriving, it has arrived and has come home to roost. Many books have been written about the impacts of such catastrophes, but people have
a tendency to avoid reading about these matters. When the plague hit Europe in the middle ages whole towns and villages were burned to the ground to rid them of rats.
 
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