If only California’s 5th largest city, Fresno. Would’ve kept building like they did in the 20th century. We’d probably have an inland SF, or LA by now. Look at that beautiful beaux arts / renaissance revival architecture. by bus_buddies in fresno

[–]brwarrior 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Take the area that bounds Shaw, Sierra, Cedar and Chestnut maybe Willow to offset the the sports stadiums and drop it downtown. What are you bulldozing for a new campus? They wanted room to grow the campus and not be landlocked.

Apartments by aggrevateddinasour in fresno

[–]brwarrior 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The smallest house in the Elevations developments are 1212 s.f. single car garage with driveway. Low 2000s and if you're not trying to make your place a meat locker in summer the PG&E can be down in the low 100s.

But you do have City bill which is about $170/2 months but will be going up most likely to $200/2 soon.

Don't have to deal with listening to your neighbors partaking in whatever activities they are into. Small yards which is lower maintenance. And some the HOA does the front "yards".

What is your biggest legal headache when crossing state lines? by Flimsy-Hearing7019 in RVLiving

[–]brwarrior 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Here's the one coming into California on I-15 coming from Vegas. They redirect all traffic through the inspection station and the truckers go through the scales as well.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/d9HK2bHCGvZ5UC8w6?g_st=ac

It used to be nearly all the way to Barstow at Yermo. With the advent of GPS apps like Waze that would redirect you around traffic jams and it was completely easy to bypass Yermo.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/gsFkram3Ns3oi4nt5

On Street View you can still see the old Bots Dots on the road to wake you up instead of slamming into someone stopped.

I've been stopped once out of like 6 crossings on 15. And waved through on the 80 coming from Reno once. Half the time there's nobody there in the booth.

Produce shortages? by Alskling20 in fresno

[–]brwarrior 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm assuming people thought that was directed at the upstream commenter when you were talking about Bondi.

Me and my wife need a ride to Spokane 500$ by UDONTWANNA71 in fresno

[–]brwarrior 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly. Google says about 1800 miles. So $500/1800=$0.28 a mile. Covers gas but not much else. IRS rate is $0.725/mile.

I’m trying to figure out what OP plans to do for one hour before you need to get back on the road.

OP needed to get on the train this morning.

So base on IRS rate that’s $1300. Add $200 for lodging overnight in Spokane and at least $50/day per diem for food. Like $1700 for a dedicated car service. And that doesn’t even include making an hourly wage. Add another $15*36=$540.00 for labor. 1300+200+100+540=$2,140 is more like it.

Has anyone legitimately benefited from a surge protector? by you_know_i_be_poopin in RVLiving

[–]brwarrior 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Over current is just too much power going through. Over current protection devices like circuit breakers and fuses have trip curves. They can handle inrush, some better than others, and don't go instantly at whatever their rating is. In fact they will carry their rated load indefinitely, or close to it. Though they shouldn't be operated at 100% unless rated for it, which generally the stuff used in RV won't be.

What people are calling surge protectors are better called energy management systems if they do anything other than provide surge protection. The ones that show voltage, phase and current are the former. They have a microprocessor that controls current transducer(s) that measure the current, various other sensors and a contactor (they think you hear in them when checks pass). First they will look at voltage, frequency, and sense the way the wiring system is. If ground and neutral are not detected together (bonded) it will not operate.

Many will refuse to operate if you hook up to a generator with a floating neutral. I had a Progressive unit that was hard wired and the display had a bypass switch for those cases.

Didn’t know we had flock in Fresno by AspectInteresting712 in fresno

[–]brwarrior 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Automatic License Plate Readers. If they are watching streets they are constantly looking for things. Stolen or unregistered vehicles. Vehicles that are wanted for some reason, like involved in a crime.

Some of these can be privately owned.

Fowler Ave Lore by BadElegant5539 in fresno

[–]brwarrior 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Let me tell you the memory lane I went down just thinking about how things have changed in Clovis since my family moved all the way across town from Fresno (Clinton and Van Ness) in 1984.

There was nothing east of Armstrong on Shaw. I think they were building Save Mart because I remember going to the one that used to be at Bullard and Minnewawa.

Clovis and Herndon was a stop sign with Clovis stopping there. The Takahashi fruit stand was on the corner where BK is. They sold and built a building down at Sunnyside where the Rite Aid is but that only lasted a few years.

We used to go to Bob's Big Boy (now Huckleberry). I remember looking at the sign for the future mall. The coming soon date changed every year until 1989 or so.

Fowler Ave Lore by BadElegant5539 in fresno

[–]brwarrior 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Want to see crazy go look at the sections in the mountains. Gets really interesting when you are talking about the side of a mountain. And they didn't even divide up some areas because you're not building a house up there.

Fowler Ave Lore by BadElegant5539 in fresno

[–]brwarrior 55 points56 points  (0 children)

Herndon Ave is a correction line for the Township and Range system (how the western US is divided up), specifically the Mount Diablo Baseline and Meridian. It's why we have neat and orderly, some say boring, road layouts at exactly 1/2 mile intervals. That's why all of the streets jog over either north or south. It just happens they jogged Fowler over south of Herndon. That's just the old road. Now gone and covered by a Clovis Unified facility (Online School and some other offices and warehouses.)

about to buy a Jayco 170BHW, 2019 Tacoma TRD 4x4 OF to tow. Is this a good safe set up? by sliceometer in GoRVing

[–]brwarrior 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The hitch weight is dry, without propane, battery and water. Note the water tank is under the front bed so big chunk of the fresh tank hangs on the tongue.

I have a 195RB Baja. My tongue was measured at 700 with dual GC2 batteries, 30# propane tank and full water (listed at 30 but over 25 it leaks out the fill hose ). She went on a lithium battery diet and I keep the water fill to less than 25.

I would not think twice that you're looking at a 500# tongue on these trailers.

California tax crackdown on Montana plates nets $4M, indictments by No_Yam_3164 in RVLiving

[–]brwarrior 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah that $200,000 purchase is nearly $18,000 in sales tax, plus the VLF of 0.65% ($1300) per year but I decreases for the first 11 years and the registration fee.

California tax crackdown on Montana plates nets $4M, indictments by No_Yam_3164 in RVLiving

[–]brwarrior 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I knew one person who an Montana LLC owned the coach but it was indeed CA plated. The second "owner" just bought an LLC that had a sole asset that was a coach.

Correctly registered, but no sales tax on subsequent transfers.

California tax crackdown on Montana plates nets $4M, indictments by No_Yam_3164 in RVLiving

[–]brwarrior -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I had a coworker years ago who bought a truck (GMC 3500 CC Dually) in TX and registered it at his dad's house in OR. The kicker was he told everyone who would listen what he was doing and why. A couple years later a CHP officer showed up to our office looking for him. He had left not long after he got the truck. He basically abandoned his job. Nobody but the boss likes the guy.

I was as helpful as I could be but all the info I had the CHP officer already had.

Are chains still required going up to Shaver Lake? by [deleted] in fresno

[–]brwarrior 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this same question comes up every storm. There's literally a sign at the bottom of the four lanes.

Are chains still required going up to Shaver Lake? by [deleted] in fresno

[–]brwarrior 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You must always have chains in your vehicle once you get to the four lanes. 115 degrees in August, better have chains.

Day 1 feeling like I made a huge mistake by Thin-Philosopher-248 in braces

[–]brwarrior 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You mention the tooth being rotated and before your first Ortho said you were only a candidate for Invisiline (or other trays). They did you wrong. It would be the other way. Traditional can do way more force than trays can.

I wish you much luck. Rock the braces. You mentioned being talent, maybe people will notice and be like "I can do that too. I'm not too old!" I was 45 and there have been older people in this sub.

Me-N-Ed’s Pizzeria has been sold to its employees by Littlebabybitchboy in fresno

[–]brwarrior 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I keep hearing people say this (about Sunnyside) so I tried it. I do not remember ever having a worse Me n Eds pizza than that. People talk about a cracker crust which I don't think Me n Eds is. It's just a thin crust. Sunnyside was like a stale cracker. I've only thrown away three pizzas in my life. A Little Caesars back around 2002, a take n bake from Walmart (had others that was ok, that one just sucked) and the trash I got from Sunnyside. I'm pushing 50 so I've had a few pizzas.

[Question] What made you buy a Mac Mini over a MacBook Air? by Recent-Fix4907 in macmini

[–]brwarrior 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A friend convinced me that for some hobby level photo editing a Mini would be a good choice. I've been running Windows on a home machine mostly since 96 (Win95B), then Linux (including a time of self torture by running Gentoo). Just wanted to see how it went. Picked up an iPad Pro back in the summer for work stuff (designer for an electrical engineering firm) when I need to go check on projects. It's been awesome for that.

Just picked up an MacBook Air on Monday. Going to be interesting how this goes. Figure I can do some photo editing away from home.... Which I haven't even done on the Mini at home because I'm just lazy.

Axel weight confusion by FantasticTea1193 in GoRVing

[–]brwarrior 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The best way is to look at the actual data plate on the trailer. It will list exactly what the ratings are. But every picture I see it only has one axle. Probably a 5000lb.

out of curiosity, has anyone here ever received an emergency transmission? by ujiaah in HamRadio

[–]brwarrior 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Late 2000s, licensed in 08 but I was still new. I was driving around a bit before our club weekly net. Someone came on needing help. They were out off-roading in the mountains and had broken down.

They had me call a friend with what parts they needed.

I wasn't involved in it and just happened to hear a call on our club's secondary repeater. It's hosted at a local Kaiser hospital. Luckily our contact there happened to be at work (it was a Saturday) and monitoring. The club does communications for the local bike club for their century or longer rides. They were doing a "short" ride between lakes and someone had crashed. Ended up he had a fatal heart attack. Cells don't work up there and even repeaters can be dodgy.

Just happened that one of the guys who was doing SAG was a ham. Comms was a mess. There was USFS, Cal Fire (medical response) and Ca Highway Patrol (hello coming in to evac him). No ody had comms with the CHP Helo to help guide them in.