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Originally Posted by belynch
(Post 13816613)
I think :rolleyes:v is hellbent on creating an international incident. After his little kerfuffle on the LH forum the other day, now he's riling up the French on my :rolleyes:book.
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Originally Posted by Mackieman
(Post 13815689)
Stuff is missing so I would imagine they're having problems.
Originally Posted by COFlyerCLE
(Post 13815697)
Something is fubar there. I can log in, but can't get any of my flight detail.
Originally Posted by jrzyshawn
(Post 13815976)
I think someone mentioned that OZ uses the Swiss lounge at JFK. From what I recall, that lounge is before security. Co.com lists that I can enter the club with my pc card. The s/o is flying OZ F an I am not flying. Do you think that I can get in as his guest or with my pc card without a flight, or should I just get a refundable ticket to avoid any hassle?
BTW, besides the UA and the SQ lounges in the SFO international gate areas, are there any other lounges we can visit there? I will be going Sunday evening!
Originally Posted by belynch
(Post 13816036)
Ich auch. Was IM'ing with teh Canuck regarding supper tonight and I think we're going to do chimichurri marinated steak tacos.
In other news, I just quoted "Pinky and the Brain" on a conference call and someone picked-up on the reference. :-::-::-:
Originally Posted by Hartmann
(Post 13815070)
So you're saying I should keep my boarding pass from PTY-LIM? ;)
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Originally Posted by Mackieman
(Post 13816051)
...Tombstone...
Best regards, William R. Sanders Online Guest Feedback Coordinator Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide [email protected] |
Originally Posted by Hartmann
(Post 13816130)
They mean $1.59 to $26.03 more total.
:td::td: City Council voted this morning to raise water and sewer rates by nearly 30 percent on an average household, one of the largest increases in the city's history and one that places Houston's rates at a higher level than many major U.S. cities. The increases for single-family homeowners will be phased in over three years, bringing the bill of an average single-family household using 6,000 gallons of water a month from $47 to $60 after the rate hike is fully implemented. |
Originally Posted by uncertaintraveler
(Post 13816791)
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Originally Posted by sdm1130
(Post 13816809)
Sounds like their raising their rates to match my area in NJ. We pay about $35/month for ~3,000 gallons.
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Originally Posted by belynch
(Post 13816613)
I think :rolleyes:v is hellbent on creating an international incident. After his little kerfuffle on the LH forum the other day, now he's riling up the French on my :rolleyes:book.
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McAfee :mad::mad::mad::mad:
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Originally Posted by FT Lurker
(Post 13816906)
"Your conference has not yet started. If you are the moderator, please press #"
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Originally Posted by sdm1130
(Post 13816809)
Sounds like their raising their rates to match my area in NJ. We pay about $35/month for ~3,000 gallons.
Houston gets an average of 50 inches of rain a year. Rain which, because the city has incompetent engineers who apparently believe that every rain event constitutes a "100 year flood event", ends up flooding the heck out of most roads, but I digress..... 1 inch of rain falling on 1 acre of land equals roughly 27,154 gallons of water. The City of Houston is roughly 600 square miles, or 384,000 acres (as there are 640 acres in 1 square mile). So 1 inch of rain on the City of Houston gives about 10,427,136,000 gallons of water. With 50 inches of annual rainfall, that comes out to 521,356,800,000 gallons of water a year. All of it freely provided by the heavens. The City of Houston has 2.2 million people. So each person essentially gets 236,980 gallons of "free" rainfall a year. And here the City wants to charge its residents an extortionate amount for using the water that ends up disrupting their lives because the very same City is completely incapable of properly constructing sewers and drains? Forget it. Just give me a catchment tank and some chlorine tablets. :mad: |
Originally Posted by uncertaintraveler
(Post 13816925)
Here's the lunacy though:
Houston gets an average of 50 inches of rain a year. Rain which, because the city has incompetent engineers who apparently believe that every rain event constitutes a "100 year flood event", ends up flooding the heck out of most roads, but I digress..... 1 inch of rain falling on 1 acre of land equals roughly 27,154 gallons of water. The City of Houston is roughly 600 square miles, or 384,000 acres (as there are 640 acres in 1 square mile). So 1 inch of rain on the City of Houston gives about 10,427,136,000 gallons of water. With 50 inches of annual rainfall, that comes out to 521,356,800,000 gallons of water a year. All of it freely provided by the heavens. The City of Houston has 2.2 million people. So each person essentially gets 236,980 gallons of "free" rainfall a year. And here the City wants to charge its residents an extortionate amount for using the water that ends up disrupting their lives because the very same City is completely incapable of properly constructing sewers and drains? Forget it. Just give me a catchment tank and some chlorine tablets. :mad: |
Originally Posted by uncertaintraveler
(Post 13816925)
...Just give me a catchment tank and some chlorine tablets.
:mad: But, I would want to use UV technology rather than chlorine to treat the water. Best regards, William R. Sanders Online Guest Feedback Coordinator Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide [email protected] |
Originally Posted by uncertaintraveler
(Post 13816925)
Here's the lunacy though:
Houston gets an average of 50 inches of rain a year. Rain which, because the city has incompetent engineers who apparently believe that every rain event constitutes a "100 year flood event", ends up flooding the heck out of most roads, but I digress..... 1 inch of rain falling on 1 acre of land equals roughly 27,154 gallons of water. The City of Houston is roughly 600 square miles, or 384,000 acres (as there are 640 acres in 1 square mile). So 1 inch of rain on the City of Houston gives about 10,427,136,000 gallons of water. With 50 inches of annual rainfall, that comes out to 521,356,800,000 gallons of water a year. All of it freely provided by the heavens. The City of Houston has 2.2 million people. So each person essentially gets 236,980 gallons of "free" rainfall a year. And here the City wants to charge its residents an extortionate amount for using the water that ends up disrupting their lives because the very same City is completely incapable of properly constructing sewers and drains? Forget it. Just give me a catchment tank and some chlorine tablets. :mad: 1) Budget issues 2) The drought last year 3) The freezes last year and this year rupturing more pipes than planned for |
Uh-oh. I think we've snared a :-:wood Lurker into the folds of teh Box. :D
I promise I'll keep my rants about how redonkulous the W Maldives is and how that's pushed me over to Hilton for this year. And every time I stay at a trashy HGI I find myself shaking my fist at the W MLE. I promise. I won't bring it up. At all. ;) |
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