Interesting story about home automobile gasoline filling stations in residential property

worker bee · 2011-12-03T02:36:32+00:00

Interesting story just developed over the past two months that I figured I'd let you know about in case it happens to you. For about five years, I've been in an unfriendly situation with my nearest neighbor (over past events with the kids getting into trouble and barking loose dogs). Then, the past two months, no less than 5 inspectors came to my property to check for hazardous conditions due to 'anonymous' complaints. The first was the fire marshall who was told I had 'large gasoline tanks' on the property. Turns out, fuel containers of fewer than 60 gallons each are exempt from fire marshall permit needs (a permit application alone, he told me, is over $750). That didn't strike me as too weird until the zoning guys dropped by. They said someone complained about an improper 'accessory structure' used to house gasoline. Turns out any accessory structure that is six feet from the property line meets zoning requirements, so he left me alone. It started to get weirder when the building inspector showed up for the same reason (don't these guys talk to each other?). He too left empty handed. Apparently an accessory structure only needs a permit if it's greater than 120 square feet and if its highest point is greater than 14 feet tall. I knew someone had it in for me when, a month later, my wife called me at work to say there was a guy snooping around the property without even knocking on the door! She called the police and then called me! Turns out, it was a hazmat inspector who had received a complaint about a 'primary container' leaking with no 'secondary containment' in place. He left before I arrived but told my wife that there was nothing he could or would do unless it was actually leaking as there are no storage regulations for private property other than you can't actually leak gasoline into the ground. He did suggest a 'secondary containment' of an oblong horse trough though. I rushed home early from work to find both the police and yet...

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willshak 14 years ago

Apparently, god didn't like American torpedo bombers.

Three IJN carriers were sunk because a pilot got a glimpse of a

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willshak 14 years ago

Apparently, god didn't like American torpedo bombers.

Three IJN carriers were sunk because a pilot got a glimpse of a

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Vic Smith 14 years ago

Didn't much care for American torpedoes either. Don't remember the details now, but way too many duds. Read that in S.E. Morrison extracts and elsewhere.

--Vic

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Robert Green 14 years ago

Quite true. One of the more realistic sub sims that I've played even accounted for the large percentage of duds that mostly Pacific sub commanders had to put up with early in the war. The worst thing you could hear on the hydrophone after letting loose a fish or two was the horrible dull bell-like clang of a dud torpedo hitting the hull of an enemy ship and failing to explode. In many of those cases the clang was soon followed by a torrent of depth charges which didn't have much of dud problem at all and sank a number of US subs because of the duds. Part of the problem is that commanders of the sunken subs usually didn't have time to report the duds - they were too busy to try to stay alive and that helped mask the problem for a while.

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