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This made me giggle. Good riddance, etc.I'm going to court, again, next month for putting stickers up.
I checked his fb and not much updates recently.
Just a harmless explorer. No need to waste taxes checking me 
Wander often. Wonder always.
Because some people don't have the luxury or free time for attending every CC meet just to become full member?Echo wrote:CC bible... Why don't you just join CC that's way more fun.
Everyone loses contact due to different reasons (ie: work, family, other change in circumstances etc...).
There could be other reasons too.
So I would go easy on that if I were you.
That's just my two cents.
Just a harmless explorer. No need to waste taxes checking me
Isn't that the 15 year old version... Great, assuming that roads haven't been widened, entrances/exits haven't been blocked and additional tunnels haven't been added...raketheleaves wrote:"pesk" otherwise known as subhavoc made an instagram post of him giving out the cave clan bible up to the letter K. He is giving it out to anyone the DM's him. He just gave it to me.
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Yeah, it's old as s***, outdated as f*** and was already available to anyone who knows how to use a search engine properly.timdole wrote:Isn't that the 15 year old version... Great, assuming that roads haven't been widened, entrances/exits haven't been blocked and additional tunnels haven't been added...raketheleaves wrote:"pesk" otherwise known as subhavoc made an instagram post of him giving out the cave clan bible up to the letter K. He is giving it out to anyone the DM's him. He just gave it to me.
I'm not sure how much safety s*** is in the front of that one but here's an excerpt on drain safety taken from another document:
The basic rules of drain exploring.
1) When it rains, no drains. Check the skies, get a weather report. DO it!
2) Always go in numbers (3 is good, more can get a bit crowded).
3) Tell a third party where you are going. In some cases you might arrange someone to come looking for you, if you haven't called them by a prearranged time.
4) Take a reliable torch. Also take a reliable spare torch.
5) Check the air for noxious, unbreatheable or poisonous impostors.
Oh s***, it's raining, help!
Catchment, tides, rain and what to do in a flood.
Hopefully you will never need to use this info but I am putting it here since it may save your life. Prevention is certainly better than cure. Now then, all drains have what is known as a catchment, that is, the area where rain falls and eventually goes into a drain. Many drains have very, very large catchments and you can often tell this by their size _ a general rule of thumb is that the bigger the drain, the bigger its catchment. When it rains over the main catchment of a drain, it takes a few minutes to actually get the system loaded with water... there are gutter pits to fill, roads to be wet and the like.
It is these few minutes which, when used appropriately, can make all the difference to the length of the rest of your life. A large catchment can dump a couple of megalitres of water into a drain in a few minutes. This and its entrained debris (wood planks, old refrigerators, bottles, etc) will travel down the drain with frightening speed. . . 50km/h and higher, you will be continually bashed around by the turbulence and totally powerless to grab anything at such a speed if it catches you. If you don't drown you will probably suffer serious physical and psychological trauma.
The last thing you want is to inflict the responsibility of rescue upon some poor SES member or fireman who really doesn't need to risk his life getting you out. To jeopardise the lives of such people is selfish and stupid. So, don't permit yourself to relax so much underground that you fail to heed the signs of impending disaster and get into a situation you cannot control.
Pay attention to what's going on
Things to notice when a drain is filling up: the air currents change, as does the noise level. A quiet drain soon gets noisy as the side tunnels and drop junctions start dumping into the main canal. When lots of water goes into a drain, the air is displaced, and you notice big gusts of wind... this is particularly true if the roads were hot when the rain landed on them; the warm water goes into the drain, heats the air above it, which expands, pushing cold air out in
front of it.
Ok, so you're up a drain and notice the side tunnel flow increasing a bit. Check the water. Is it dirty? Is it oily? If yes, it is likely to be raining and you're in something far worse than deep s*** if you don't do something about it.
All these are warning signals that a lot of fast moving H20 is coming your way in a hurry, and that you should get out of its way. 1000 litres of water weighs a tonne. You get a lot more than that in a flood, and it's very hard to walk against it. Can YOU stop a 1- tonne car rolling toward you at say, 10 meters per second, by standing in its way? Not very much.
Emergency escape tactics.
First thing to do is keep cool and rational, don't panic. You are in control. Then leave in a hurry. What if you're 2km from the entrance? Well, use your brain. Water heads for the lowest point ... so go to the nearest, preferably downstream manhole shaft and climb up it, and wait for the flood to scream by below you. You need not pop the cover, just stay in the shaft, and climb higher than any 'bathtub ring' of polystyrene balls and dead grass you see on the shaft wall. Be warned, you may be up there a long time before the raging torrent desists. It will be loud and frightening, but breathe calmly, conserve your airspace.
If there is a protruding wall and you can't get up a shaft in time, get in close to the downstream side of that wall. This is not very safe but it is better than standing in the path of the oncoming maelstrom. Hanging from a grille is not so good either, you will be dumped on (and may lose your grip) but that might be better than being flushed a few km at high speed. Staying out of the flow is mega_priority . . . nothing can ruin your day like a derilect lawnmower in the back of the head, and there are nastier things in the feeder canals than old 44 gallon drums; roofing beams, bits of rail track, shopping trolleys. The flow smashes them all along, and they are bad news.
This is probably the most useful thing I read when I started getting into exploring.
