What happened?
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What happened?
Burnham
Woods walker
At an educated guess, I'd posit...no more logging and subsequently no more mill. An old story all over the PNW.
Environmentalism run amuck.
Environmentalism run amuck.
FireFighterZero
Captain Zero!
All over western Montana.
We cant afford meth or heroin out east here.
We cant afford meth or heroin out east here.
Steve Mack
Life Member.
Where'd that big dog one go. 
Or was it in another thread?
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flushcut
TreeHouser
BIG kitty!
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
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I'd be content with a raccoon!
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Drug companies made a brazilian dollars pushing opiods. Insurance, too.
The banks destroyed the world economy causing a real estate crash, that whole Great Recession thing. A lot less demand when nobody is building. Less logging. Logging made less money. The mill shutdown to re-tool, and let a contract on union labor run-out, or something, something, something.
Shelton is about the last main commuter town before getting well more onto the Olympic Peninsula, where population is scarcer. Its 30 minutes drive or so to the Capitol in Oly, where jobs are available. People commute up to 2 hours a day, each way to Seattle, if you can believe that.
Shelton was depending on the mill and logging. Now there is destitution, surely prostitution for drugs, people 'jaw-ing' like crazy, no teeth. Scummy adults riding bmx bikes, a great, cheap criminal transportation tool. No lights in the middle of the night while casing and breaking into houses and cars for drug money.
Black market drugs, economic depression, lack of opportunities, and lack of substance abuse and mental health treatment.
The banks destroyed the world economy causing a real estate crash, that whole Great Recession thing. A lot less demand when nobody is building. Less logging. Logging made less money. The mill shutdown to re-tool, and let a contract on union labor run-out, or something, something, something.
Shelton is about the last main commuter town before getting well more onto the Olympic Peninsula, where population is scarcer. Its 30 minutes drive or so to the Capitol in Oly, where jobs are available. People commute up to 2 hours a day, each way to Seattle, if you can believe that.
Shelton was depending on the mill and logging. Now there is destitution, surely prostitution for drugs, people 'jaw-ing' like crazy, no teeth. Scummy adults riding bmx bikes, a great, cheap criminal transportation tool. No lights in the middle of the night while casing and breaking into houses and cars for drug money.
Black market drugs, economic depression, lack of opportunities, and lack of substance abuse and mental health treatment.
vharrison
Island Girl
Darn, that sounds terrible.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Today, I heard night time in Shelton is like a Zombie Apocalypse.
Talked to a guy last night who started climbing on a tree crew up in Issaquah who seemed to have tweeky employees, with one about to start a fight with him on his first day.
Talked to a guy last night who started climbing on a tree crew up in Issaquah who seemed to have tweeky employees, with one about to start a fight with him on his first day.
Burnham
Woods walker
I'd effin' move if I had that scene to deal with, Sean. Take the sweet little Ms. D with me...and her momma/your ex, if it had to come to that. Cannot be a great place to raise a child, seems like.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Shit, I don't live there!!!!!!!!!
I'm the worst house in the best neighborhood, my neighbors put $50K into their backyard hardscaping and have a serious horse arena. The others are daughter and SIL to a major builder in town, who work for the family biz. His fancy race car goes in a huge enclosed trailer behind their big motor home. My nextdoor neighbor's home is on the market for $550K. My old neighbor, the retired logger, literally has the worst house in our 'neighborhood' of 10 houses, not me, truth be told. Mine's not fancy, small 3br/ 2 ba, and 20 years old.
That's the town down the road. A solid distance away. I have done about 2 jobs, and one consult in that town over the years.
I have Rez land up the street a bit. Some problems of some low-lives who burgle houses and run back to the Rez. The Sherriff is spread thin, especially with how the shape of the land is. I am about 4 miles as the crow flies, I'd guess, from a friend's, across the water. 30 minute drive.
Now, this little rez up the way is no big deal, on the whole. Great fireworks for the whities. A bit of run-down housing visible from the road for a tiny stretch, but largely 5 acre parcels, and being a long and narrow peninsula, lots of waterfront.
If you want to be dead, go to a lot of other rez's at night. Skokomish Indians Rez at night, good place to disappear. Not so far from here, 30 minutes, maybe. An old employee of mine had a grandpa, a former log truck driver, who drove a taxi at some point in his life. Somehow he made it out of driving a fare out to the rez, into the deep dark, and where he wasn't supposed to return from. Most likely, he was packing, and not a softee.
I don't know the environmental factors. I'm suspecting spotted-owl had a hand in the industry overall going down.
Guess what, the more you strip the land, the less productive it becomes. Go figure. That can't be helping logging any.
I'm the worst house in the best neighborhood, my neighbors put $50K into their backyard hardscaping and have a serious horse arena. The others are daughter and SIL to a major builder in town, who work for the family biz. His fancy race car goes in a huge enclosed trailer behind their big motor home. My nextdoor neighbor's home is on the market for $550K. My old neighbor, the retired logger, literally has the worst house in our 'neighborhood' of 10 houses, not me, truth be told. Mine's not fancy, small 3br/ 2 ba, and 20 years old.
That's the town down the road. A solid distance away. I have done about 2 jobs, and one consult in that town over the years.
I have Rez land up the street a bit. Some problems of some low-lives who burgle houses and run back to the Rez. The Sherriff is spread thin, especially with how the shape of the land is. I am about 4 miles as the crow flies, I'd guess, from a friend's, across the water. 30 minute drive.
Now, this little rez up the way is no big deal, on the whole. Great fireworks for the whities. A bit of run-down housing visible from the road for a tiny stretch, but largely 5 acre parcels, and being a long and narrow peninsula, lots of waterfront.
If you want to be dead, go to a lot of other rez's at night. Skokomish Indians Rez at night, good place to disappear. Not so far from here, 30 minutes, maybe. An old employee of mine had a grandpa, a former log truck driver, who drove a taxi at some point in his life. Somehow he made it out of driving a fare out to the rez, into the deep dark, and where he wasn't supposed to return from. Most likely, he was packing, and not a softee.
I don't know the environmental factors. I'm suspecting spotted-owl had a hand in the industry overall going down.
Guess what, the more you strip the land, the less productive it becomes. Go figure. That can't be helping logging any.
MasterBlaster
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pantheraba
More biners!!!
Steve Mack
Life Member.
For Justin.
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MasterBlaster
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They ARE surprisingly cool!
flushcut
TreeHouser
Water main?
gf beranek
Old Schooler
High pressure at that.
Mellow
BCMA
Or a sewer line blockage at the Taco Bell.
flushcut
TreeHouser
My old boss was telling me a story from when a 32" water main broke on the Eastside of Milwaukee two blocks away from the lab and he said the water was shooting up five stories high. I'd bet it looked like that GIF.
