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This past Monday, the Metro Detroit area I live in got slammed with torrential rainfall. 3"-5"+ in about 8 hours.
Some video showing the flooding: Hayes Road Flooded Aerial Drone Video[^]
The drone starts the video by looking and flying southbound on Hayes Road. The area you can see in the camera footage has been known to flood in the past, but never like this in the last 50 years. Hayes Road has had water over it before, but only a couple of inches deep. The cars you see in the water are in the middle of Hayes Road at a high spot and were still completely submerged at one point during the storm. At the time this video was taken, the water had receded about 18".
I used to live not far from that area 25 years ago. Here's a map[^] of what it looks like dry.
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As if Detroit didn't have enough problems already. Looks bad!
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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Some cat said Islip, New York got 21 inches of rain in 24 hours recently, breaking the New York State record. Here in California, we have a severe drought, but an El Nino is predicted to start soon - hopefully it doesn't end up being TOO much all at once...
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Yeah, I was just thinking that it's too bad they couldn't pipeline flood waters to drought areas.
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Unfortunately, that would require a vast infrastructure that, like everything else, would be falling apart now.
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Hope you manage to stay afloat!...good luck! 
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Most of the Metro area flooded to some degree. I got lucky. I had street flooding but nothing came back up the sewer line to my basement. There are people around me that though that had a couple of feet of water in their basements.
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Yeah, we've had water in our basement...keep a gas powered pump handy for when the power goes out and the sump pump fails.
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Yikes! That's awful. 
/ravi
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I'm surprised the water hasn't quickly run off. The landscape seems very...convex...in the flooded area.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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1. Skippy heartbeat when you think of him/her.
Symptoms then: Love.
Prognosis now: Ventricular fibrillation and Myocardial Infarction.
2. Restless trembling of hands, feet and other body parts.
Symptoms then: Love.
Prognosis now: Parkinson's Disease.
3. Constant smiling.
Symptoms then: Love.
Prognosis now: Bell's Palsy.
4. Absent mindedness, inability to focus on tasks at work or at home.
Symptoms then: Love.
Prognosis now: Early Onset of Alzheimer's Disease.
5. Weakening of knees and bursts of energy when she calls or comes over.
Symptoms then: Love.
Prognosis now: Multiple Sclerosis.
6. Inability to stop thinking about her.
Symptoms then: Love.
Prognosis now: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
7. Bruising on neck, and other tender areas.
Symptoms then: Love.
Prognosis now: Leukemia.
8. Insomnia.
Symptoms then: Love.
Prognosis now: Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia.
9. Feeling that you can smell/hear/feel her when not in her presence.
Symptoms then: Love.
Prognosis now: Schizophrenia!
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Now: WebMD says it's cancer.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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As most of us here tend toward pedantry and the precise use of language, I thought I'd ask the following:
If you are looking to make a purchase, and expect to pay (approximately) a certain amount, and a vendor claims that they can "exceed all your expectations" -- wouldn't you at least ask for clarification that their price won't exceed your expectation?
(
This is prompted by an internal corporate survey I answered yesterday.
"meet or exceed our customers’ service expectations and our partners’ cost expectations"
)
modified 15-Aug-14 18:58pm.
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No, because exceeding my expectation of a price would mean offering the item at a lower price, while exceeding my expectation of quality would mean offering a product of higher quality.
/ravi
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Excellent answer. Although all this is mostly theoretical because it's very rare that any sales pitch matches the service/product
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It could also exceed expectations in the opposite direction. If you expect the difference between sales patch to product to be a ratio of 1:1 or even 2:1 (pitch to product), they could deliver you a really low quality product - way lower than you intended it to be to tune of 100:1 or 1:.01 depending on how you look at it.
That would still exceed expectations in the opposite direction while also ensuring your statement holds true as well. Thus, problem solved!
Jeremy Falcon
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So young. So cynical.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I expect dinner to be ready when I come home from work.
A bold claim from a vendor to also exceed that expectation!
I wouldn't even know how to exceed it... Would that mean dinner would be ready earlier? In that case I'd come home to a cold dinner. Would the dinner come to me? Then I'd have to eat it on my bike on the way home.
I guess some expectations just can't be exceeded 
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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Context is important. Your dinner is not likely to be in context for the vendor. (Though it could be a pizza shop.) Similarly, having dinner served by the Swedish Bikini Team is not in scope. 
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I guess I could say the same for the price expectation. When a vendor makes such claims we think about design or usability of a product. When talking about prices vendors are usually quite explicit, like "Guaranteed lowest price!"
But the vendor did say ALL my expectations (this was about linguistic ambiguity, right?) 
Yeah, I want pizza served by the Swedish Bikini Team at the lowest price when I get home from work! 
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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Sander Rossel wrote: "Guaranteed lowest price!"
* Cooking charge extra. Sauce charge extra. Cheese charge extra. ...
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Let me just book that flight!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Oh man, my friend and I just drove past that town last weekend... And I've been gradually turning him into a Whovian... If only I knew...
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