Wondering about the effect of the water outage on local businesses. Did the bars and restaurants have to close until service was restored? What about the hotels and condos not on Sandy Beach? I assume they wouldn't have water cisterns for backup to provide the necessities.
Anybody in business here and anybody who lives here full time knows you need backup water, it is ordinary in almost of Mexico to have a water back up. I talked to a local guy who owns a very popular restaurant and he has 4 - 5000 gallon tanks as back up. He is never closed. Many of the water shops (purified) had to close in the last week or so until the supply starts again. I have city water, but I also have 500 gallon backups. It just makes sense.
Thanks Russ, It does make sense I just didn't realize water tanks were that common in town at residences and businesses of all sizes. That's a lot of tanks, pumps, and pressure tanks to maintain. No wonder parts are readily available.
Rotoplas is a huge industry in Mexico and all of Latin America. They provide the water equipment for Agro purposes but also and probably more so for personal water supplies. If Rosy's Restaurant doesn't have a water back up then there is no way I am eating there during an outage.
The speculation about how future events will hurt real estate values in RP and RP in general, such as the wall, Trump's deportation policy, the next Mexican President that won't like Trump, etc, are nothing compared to the effect of a long term water crisis. May not happen in my lifetime, but I'm betting it's going to happen. Seems to me it's already started.
Rotoplas is a huge industry in Mexico and all of Latin America. They provide the water equipment for Agro purposes but also and probably more so for personal water supplies. If Rosy's Restaurant doesn't have a water back up then there is no way I am eating there during an outage.
That is EXACTLY why I do not eat at the roadside taco, hot dog, whatever stands.
There are actually some people that like a good old Mexican style Montezuma's Revenge purge episode on occasion.
Oh, the pleasure of puking, pooping, pissing and sweating all at the same time!
Kinda "lightens the load", and leaves one pure as the driven snow, and a twenty pound weight loss in just 24 hours.
Old Chino's two wheel Malecon cart was always a guarantee for the best of those events.
JJ
As many have noted previously, this forum has deteriorated in some ways over the years. However... though at times his comments border on the outrageous, for my money Jim almost single-handedly makes this forum a must visit for me (with no slight at all intended to Jerry or Roberto, who are always informative). Bravo, my friend...
As many have noted previously, this forum has deteriorated in some ways over the years. However... though at times his comments border on the outrageous, for my money Jim almost single-handedly makes this forum a must visit for me (with no slight at all intended to Jerry or Roberto, who are always informative). Bravo, my friend...
Lots of people are providing good info these days...but the fact that we all vacation on a frigging power keg that could go off at any minute speaks volumes about all of us....we are sort of bad ass! Just finished the reread Under the Volcano and watching the awesome season 2 of Fortitude ....love binge streaming !
So I post how goods things are going and you fly off the hook, Santo tomas is santo tomas, like 100 visitors a year maybe.
No for the last 10 years you pretty much ad a bit of snark,a pinch of insider smug and a whole lot of nothing....pretty much your M.O. tell us something new
No for the last 10 years you pretty much ad a bit of snark,a pinch of insider smug and a whole lot of nothing....pretty much your M.O. tell us something new
As many have noted previously, this forum has deteriorated in some ways over the years. However... though at times his comments border on the outrageous, for my money Jim almost single-handedly makes this forum a must visit for me (with no slight at all intended to Jerry or Roberto, who are always informative). Bravo, my friend...
Of those who bring information (and disinformation) I especially appreciate that JJ brings perspective as well.
Some are not crazy about environmental issues and real estate fail stories for sure..Since we started posting on these issues we have actually had Sea Sheapard crew seeing it on search and reaching out ( well if trying to punch JJ can be called reaching out).If you have been based in RP and just sit on the couch at the condo waiting for smoked prime rib Sunday you might not care about border waits,potholes,real estate scams and I get that....but....if you are thinking of buying a place down here you might consider trying to save the Sea,encourage good government and try to keep our country from doing things that get Obrador elected in 2018....That happens we are in the shit....
Funny you mention the Sea Goat Herders Jerry, I've been thinking about them and not a single related post in a week or more now.
Did they high tail it back to Frog Land in time to vote for their new Commie mud slum loving dictator?
Them mini porpoises finally terminate? No mas giant croakers left to gut?
Man alive would I enjoy a few of those froggy faggots showing up at my front door. I'm sure that they have never had the opportunity to meet Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson in person.
Off topic note: currently Yuma is completely infested with rats, Norway Rats to be specific. One yard nearby killed over forty in a week. I finally determined what has been nibbling away on every new sprouting thing in my vegetable garden, all along I was convinced it was those pesky snow birds known as White Crowned Sparrows, no it's those dirty rats! Two weeks ago I was pulling a truck into my compound and I saw something out of the corner of my eye heading into my boat house. I had a flashlight in hand and followed it. Low and behold it was a male Norway Rat about sixteen inches long with it's two big testicles dragging the ground. I ran to the house and got my 12 gauge but could never find him again. The next day I did a little reconnoiter and found rat tracks everywhere. I always have a couple of those big old snap traps around because once in awhile a Wood Rat makes it over here since the river is only a quarter mile away. I set six of them and as I was soaking in the hot tub heard one go off. Ran over to check it out and it was sprung with a drop of blood and some rat hair on it, that big bastard got caught but still managed to escape. So next day I go to Home Depot and buy an electric rat trap. I set it and about an hour after dark check it out only to see it totally destroyed, the rat was so big that when it got shocked it knocked the thing apart and got away! Now I can't use poison cause my wolf pack will certainly eat it. Anyway, after returning that trap and buying two more I've now electrocuted fifteen of them and still not killed the big old male that I first saw. All of this rat action is obviously related to our wet winter but a first that I've ever seen in the thirty plus years that I have lived here. Anyone else got input on this?
Funny you mention the Sea Goat Herders Jerry, I've been thinking about them and not a single related post in a week or more now.
Did they high tail it back to Frog Land in time to vote for their new Commie mud slum loving dictator?
Them mini porpoises finally terminate? No mas giant croakers left to gut?
Man alive would I enjoy a few of those froggy faggots showing up at my front door. I'm sure that they have never had the opportunity to meet Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson in person.
Off topic note: currently Yuma is completely infested with rats, Norway Rats to be specific. One yard nearby killed over forty in a week. I finally determined what has been nibbling away on every new sprouting thing in my vegetable garden, all along I was convinced it was those pesky snow birds known as White Crowned Sparrows, no it's those dirty rats! Two weeks ago I was pulling a truck into my compound and I saw something out of the corner of my eye heading into my boat house. I had a flashlight in hand and followed it. Low and behold it was a male Norway Rat about sixteen inches long with it's two big testicles dragging the ground. I ran to the house and got my 12 gauge but could never find him again. The next day I did a little reconnoiter and found rat tracks everywhere. I always have a couple of those big old snap traps around because once in awhile a Wood Rat makes it over here since the river is only a quarter mile away. I set six of them and as I was soaking in the hot tub heard one go off. Ran over to check it out and it was sprung with a drop of blood and some rat hair on it, that big bastard got caught but still managed to escape. So next day I go to Home Depot and buy an electric rat trap. I set it and about an hour after dark check it out only to see it totally destroyed, the rat was so big that when it got shocked it knocked the thing apart and got away! Now I can't use poison cause my wolf pack will certainly eat it. Anyway, after returning that trap and buying two more I've now electrocuted fifteen of them and still not killed the big old male that I first saw. All of this rat action is obviously related to our wet winter but a first that I've ever seen in the thirty plus years that I have lived here. Anyone else got input on this?
JJ
Some jujitsu throwing French hippie girl is going to beat your ass one day! On the rats...just used a high-end German pellet rifle to kill gophers on a full moon night...Bill Murray type fun
Know what? I used to have one of those chicks. Met her in RP many moons ago, she was a world traveler, diver, sailor, artist, all of that good shit that a little knock out froggy chick should have acquired by age twenty six. Only problem was that when I tried to bring her home to Yuma the US Customs wouldn't let her in. She needed a visa for starters and had to go Mexico City to her embassy to apply for it, too bad, so sad. Anyway, she taught me the Dorado catching trick with the use of big cardboard sheets. In France her father was a commercial fisherman and they made big woven mats of palm fronds that they put out and a few hours later came back trolling near with feather jigs and got plenty of them. So we modified the system and used the big boxes that things like fridges and stoves come in. I would take eight or ten of them folded up on my boat and dump em out on current lines out in the blue water. We would come back in an hour or so, troll alongside and bingo, big Dodo's on the lines.
Town is talking about expanding but just look at the water supply fiasco it has to deal with. Hermosillo has the same problem and it is a capital city of the state. This kind of tells you how irresponsible the government is there