April @ Team Load One

jelliott · Apr 2, 2016

The results are in!
The winner of the Monthly Rewards Contest in the Load One Gold Rewards Program for the month of March is Amanda Turbin!!! 50,000 points will be added to your Gold Rewards account.
Additionally we would like to announce that the Rewards Contest for April will be done using the Daily Trivia quiz. You are able to answer one trivia question each day regarding the transportation industry and at the end of the month the top ten drivers with the most correct answers will be entered into the raffle for a chance to win 50,000 points.

Turtle · Apr 2, 2016

jelliott said:
Additionally we would like to announce that the Rewards Contest for April will be done using the Daily Trivia quiz. You are able to answer one trivia question each day regarding the transportation industry and at the end of the month the top ten drivers with the most correct answers will be entered into the raffle for a chance to win 50,000 points.

That implies a major change in video training.

DollarSign · Apr 2, 2016

After my loooong nap, I got up went to Walmart and to B Buy and now at Golden Corral! When done back to the Petro and will stay til Sun for the race. I was #2 now I'm #3

Steady Eddie · Apr 2, 2016

Snowing good here. Is it March 33rd or April 2. I left my coat at home, just forgot to bring it.

Turtle · Apr 2, 2016

DollarSign · Apr 3, 2016

DollarSign said:
I was #2 now I'm #3

For now it looks like I'll be staying where I'm at. Went from #3 to #2 for now.

DollarSign · Apr 3, 2016

Turtle said:
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Just heard from one of the news channels that the ice bergs are melting pretty rapied and in 80 years New Orleans will be a island.

DollarSign · Apr 3, 2016

I think this global warming thing is crap/crazy. But I could be wrong.

Turtle · Apr 3, 2016

DollarSign said:
Just heard from one of the news channels that the ice bergs are melting pretty rapied and in 80 years New Orleans will be a island.

Well, first, icebergs are already in the water and have displaced all the water they're gonna. Fill a glass with ice and water, and when the little icebergs in the glass melt the water doesn't overflow. Same thing happens with big icebergs in the ocean. Icebergs are pieces of freshwater ice that have broken off a glacier or an ice shelf, and as more of those break off and fall into the water, the sea levels will rise, same displacement as if you add additional ice to the glass.

Second, the average elevation of New Orleans

is currently between one and two feet (0.5 m) below sea level, and is still sinking. The definition of an island is "a piece of land

surrounded by water."

One should not confuse "surrounded" with "submerged," as New Orleans will be submerged by water, like, totally.

DollarSign · Apr 3, 2016

Turtle said:
Well, first, icebergs are already in the water and have displaced all the water they're gonna. Fill a glass with ice and water, and when the little icebergs in the glass melt the water doesn't overflow. Same thing happens with big icebergs in the ocean. Icebergs are pieces of freshwater ice that have broken off a glacier or an ice shelf, and as more of those break off and fall into the water, the sea levels will rise, same displacement as if you add additional ice to the glass.

Second, the average elevation of New Orleans is currently between one and two feet (0.5 m) below sea level, and is still sinking. The definition of an island is "a piece of land surrounded by water." One should not confuse "surrounded" with "submerged," as New Orleans will be submerged by water, like, totally.

Just telling/ saying what the news was reporting.

Turtle · Apr 3, 2016

DollarSign said:
Just telling/ saying what the news was reporting.

I believe you. I have heard the same thing. The news is full of panic and misinformation, the merchants of chaos are hard at work. The one about New Orleans being an island is the one that cracks me up the most, and I've heard it several times, because you'd think these reporters would have at least heard of Hurricane Katrina where it left 80% of New Orleans under water. There's a complicated interconnection between the diversion of upstream waters and the sediments that are no longer deposited in the most of the Delta, combined with the dredging of the sediments that are deposited (to keep stable shipping channels in place rather than let the channels and even the river itself meander). Add to that the fact that In the first half of the twentieth century, large scale mechanical pumping technology enabled the draining of the and subdivision of the areas between city’s back-of-town swamps between the river and Lake Pontchartrain (Metairie, Kenner areas), and the reclamation of these soggy areas had an unexpected consequence: it made ground levels sink.

This process, called subsidence, occurred through different mechanisms. Organic matter in the soil oxidized, so soil volume was reduced. As pumping extracted water from the ground, soil particles collapsed onto each other, compacting things down. The removal of the cypress swamps brought an end to soil creation through organic decomposition. Finally, the levees that had been constructed along the length of the Mississippi to stop flooding prevented the replenishment of soil by alluvial material, and what does get replenished gets dredged because it's replenished in the wrong spots now.

By 20 years ago, the city had become a giant sink. Ground levels had fallen to as low as twelve feet below sea level; the city was completely surrounded by levees; and the only way to remove water from drains and sewers was by pumping it over the levee to Lake Pontchartrain.

All of this is causing New Orleans to sink, just like Venice, Italy. The only way New Orleans will ever become an island is to demolish the dams upstream, turn off the pumps, tear down the levees, and let the swamps reclaim the land between New Orleans and the lake. If all that happens right now, it'll still take 50 to 100 years before New Orleans stops sinking and becomes stable.

Incidentally, Gardner Denver in Quincy, IL is where the some of the pumps and pump parts are made. If you ever pick up or deliver there it can be a Holy Crap Moment. The levee sump pumps are built in 20 sections, each section still being over-heights and wide-load for a specialized flatbed. When assembled on site the each pump is the size of a nuclear submarine. They have five levee sump pumps in New Orleans, plus a few dozen smaller drainage pumps.

Rick007 · Apr 3, 2016

It's not the Icebergs that pose the threat to rising water levels in our oceans (as eloquently illustrated by Turtle,) although more Icebergs would pose greater navigational hazzards to shipping lanes. The real issue is Glacial melting. This is adding tons & tons of new water and displacement to our oceans. Glaciers have remained frozen for milineum with trillions of tons of frozen water an have always had some melt effect. However its the increased melting we see today that is being studied and attributed to "global warming."

Yeah I'm a bit of a nerd! Besides we will all be dead and our bones turned to dust by the time it happens......so keep burning those fossil fuels and adding florocarbins to the atmosphere.........just make sure to teach your kids and thier kids to swim!

:spamani:

Beautiful morning here in Colorado....no water in sight! Drive safe....

Turtle · Apr 3, 2016

Yup. It's not the polar ice caps that are the biggest problem. If they melted we'd see a 200 foot rise in sea levels. As this very kewl interactive map and these maps shows what the Earth would look like if all the ice melted. The National Geographic goes a little overboard when they state, "There are more than five million cubic miles of ice on Earth, and some scientists say it would take more than 5,000 years to melt it all. If we continue adding carbon to the atmosphere, we’ll very likely create an ice-free planet, with an average temperature of perhaps 80 degrees Fahrenheit instead of the current 58."

It's not "very likely" at all. We know that there have been times in the past when the global temperature was above 80 degrees for centuries and the polar ice caps were still there. It is, however, very likely that we can get the glaciers in Greenland and other places to melt and get a 10-20 foot increase in sea levels, because that's been done before, too. Many times. The only difference in those previous times, people didn't have gazillion dollar houses on the beach.