With all that rain over there in Texas ya'll are going to look like South Louisiana.

 

Des Allemands, La. airboat ride.





Only 10 miles from my house and you're in another world.

 

.5 to .7 so far but time will tell

 

I never understood the point of an app that does the exact same thing as the website page does? It's basically a glorified bookmark?

 

No telling what lives in there!

 

The app is a lot cleaner, faster, fits screen better, easier to read, etc. At least when it worked.

 

Yeah mon, I be statin to talk Cajun. Gonna change my name to Boudreaux!

 

We had over 10 Boudreaux's in my high school graduation class!!

 

Went to the doctor first thing yesterday...they have me on codine cough syrup...antibiotics...steriod shot and took 3 blood samples. I've been diagnosed with mild COPD for the last 1-1/2 yrs and don't want to take a chance. I never did smoke but I think the work enviorments had a lot to do with it...taking it easy for a few days.

 

You don't want to fool around with that, hope it gets better soon. I have been surprised that I never developed lung cancer. When I was 13, worked with another kid in an auto parts store rebuilding brake shoes. The cores that had the old lining on them had to be ground off on a wheel. Some had rivets that were popped off. When we ground them off, the dust would fly, they were made of asbestos. Our faces would be black from working in the room, our noses full of the dust. We nor our parents(his owned the store, my dad managed it) had a clue. We also used a glue in the bonding process and ran the shoes through an oven. The fumes were pretty strong. That could not have been good either.

 

In 1965 hurricane Betsy hit the New Orleans area...I was 17 and already in college but since the storm did a lot of damage at the school I was enrolled in I decided to leave and go back when things were repaired. I ended up working for the local asbestos union for about 7 months. I'd come home white with the dust and I'm sure breathing in the fibers didn't help. When I worked for Texaco I was exposed to leaded gasoline fumes...H2S from the fuel oil and other chemicals from working in the lab. I guess all these things added up...thank God I never smoked!

 

eek guys. The environments workers had to deal with not so long ago....

My great granddad died of lung cancer at I think 59 years old....he worked out in camps at logging and stuff. Good thing we have protection standards now...

 

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It's scary what we did and were totally unaware.

 

And to think people younger than me start smoking, with all the info out on what it does.....