SwampAssassin

According to the Zillow listings all are residential. The Houston one isn’t the best so I’ll substitute it for this one LINK and the Los Angelas one is landlocked so it could be subbed for this one LINK

Check out Mark Novak on YouTube. He’s an expert gunsmith/gun conservationist. He has multiple videos of how to clean up antique firearms without destroying proof marks and cartouches

Ballymore

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What field is that?

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The maritime industry. I work a one month on/one month off rotation on a tanker.

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Plenty? How many entry level jobs that pay between 70k and 105k do you believe exist and why wouldn’t college grads take them over HS grads?

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Because it’s hard work and society generally looks down on it. Look at all the baristas as Starbucks with some generic degree. Just a couple days ago there was a thread about Waste Management in Houston not being able to find people to drive garbage trucks for 90k a year but can hire people all day with MBAs for 60k a year.

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we've beaten this absolutely to death, but there are some fields that require a four year degree for advancement and to open other doors, to give options and typically a lot of those fields top out not too far above that and you've hit the earnings plateau

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I’d generally agree with you but how many people are at LSU right now for a business or political science degree that will have dead end jobs in the next 15 years? Every industry has options for advancement. Some require more work than others.

Where I work, the absolute entry level position is around 70k (which just about everyone can get as long as you can pass a background check.) Within a year you can be at 100k and within another couple of years as one moves up it can go as high as around 250k

Yes. Every company in my field is short on just about every position.

Always heard that because of its age the Morganza Spillway is the last resort because if the ACOE is unable to close it then the Mississippi could/would change course and go into the Atchafalaya.

I remember around 2012, the ACOE was having a hard time closing up the spillway and started dropping large boulders in an attempt to reduce the water flow. Well when the river finally went down some more they were able to get the spillway closed and found the boulders had been swept several hundred yards away from where they had been dropped.

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I was going to say that part of the bigger issue with re routing them from the bigger ports to smaller ones would be pick up I'd assume? Those ships are just delivering one way, they have to be able to pick up also. Its not just a matter of bringing goods from China and Asia, its loading them with goods to go elsewhere?

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One of the major issues causing the backup in California was a lack of transport after the containers were unloaded from ships. There were not enough trucks to deliver elsewhere, so containers were piling up and not leaving any room for new ships to unload. While some of the east coast ports are smaller, they were able to expand quickly and had better supply chain management allowing for quicker turnarounds

Frankly anything and everything. 90% of everything you will use in your life has been on or was made from something carried on a ship. The larger container ships rarely ever stop at just one port. They’ll load somewhere such as Asia or Europe and stop at 3-5 ports along the east coast or wherever dropping off containers and picking up new ones to return

Bunch of fire service trucks on both sides of the interstate and multiple burn spots in the grass between the travel lanes. Anyone have details on what’s happening?


Edit: looks like west bound is closer past Tanger

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Bonine had a son that went to Catholic. This is a huge conflict of interest here

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True, but he didn’t graduate and was only there for about a year. However, his wife was a teacher at Catholic also.

Fourchon isn’t going anywhere. A couple years ago the state was looking for a place to start building a new port, but there were no places that could satisfy both being close to the platforms and rigs while also providing more protection from hurricanes. Cameron was the final place to be considered, but it would have been too long to get to the gulf plus extra travel time to get to a majority of the rigs.