I don’t know why the sexual tension is so palpable. I can only speculate.

Looks fine.

I’d argue there is a lot of context missing and assumptions made by an author trying to sell books with sensationalism while simultaneously working for an institution that has played one of the strongest hands in desecrating African burial grounds and done little to nothing to right their wrongs.

“around the same time that the Foundation had blocked longtime volunteer leaders from continuing work there.”

This is misleading. Enrichmond asked the FOEE to sign waivers while working at the cemetery. A very common practice for liability issues. FOEE refused to sign the waivers and we’re not given permission to continue their work on the property.

“Imagine the news media arrived on the site that day, where staff of the Enrichmond Foundation allowed reporters to photograph and then broadcast images of those exposed remains.”

Come on, do you really think Enrichmond has the power/influence to tell reporters what to broadcast?

“Images of the bones would linger on the television station’s website for days.”

Again, this isn’t something Enrichmond has jurisdiction over but that conflicts with Dr. Smith’s outrage narrative.

Smith then goes on, and nauseam, about the structure of the public meeting. No real examples of actual maliciousness here, just personal criticisms of how the virtual public meeting was set up.

“Further, these new findings at East End Cemetery, and their mishandling by Enrichmond, point to this same pattern of fumbling the discovery of such remains and making the awful situation even worse.”

Mishandling by Enrichmond? What is the appropriate course of action? They called DHR, the police, and set up a public meeting with descendants of the cemetery to let them know the details of the discovery.

“Imagine having prepared a question about whether Enrichmond’s staff should have sought continuity in their handling of newly discovered remains with the previous 7 years of volunteer procedures on the site. Now that question sounds beside the point given the gravity of the revelations.”

“The gravity of the revelations?” I thought everyone was well aware of the grave robbing and desecration of cemeteries in Richmond.

A lot of sensationalism in this piece. If Dr. Smith wants to take an organization to task perhaps he should start with his employer and implore them to take corrective action for building a parking garage over the discovery of remains at MCV. Push them to get more involved in local calamities like this rather than spend their time building parking lots, student housing, and athletic facilities.

Anytime I’ve traveled and turned off my water, I’ve also turned off my hot water heater.

Lol why?

Hopefully cameras caught who did it

There were a bunch of commercial springs in that part of the South Side. Carter Jones was Fonticello Lithia (https://richmondfamilymagazine.com/article/richmond-as-a-city-of-springs/).

Just for contrast, I recall tenant protection laws are much stronger in NYC. If a building's boiler broke down in winter time they would deploy an emergency boiler truck: literally a boiler on a truck, parked outside, and piped into the building's heating systems. Dozens of companies in the metro area would rent these out.

That's not to say every landlord would comply (ahem, NYCHA), just to paint a picture of how much renter laws vary from place to place.

I thought that’s the case, but I’m wondering if you have to turn off your hot water heater? Wondering if with no water the heating element would just burn up.

Yep. We have one specifically for loss of heat/power. It's a relatively affordable bit of insurance

Is the UPS box ok?

And the pizza!! Not the pizza!!!

In Hanover, there was one marked unsafe alongside Ashcake Rd. north of Lewistown Rd.

Glass America came out within a couple days for my windshield last month

Damn! Some of yall have really high expectations!

This may only be helpful in the future, but can anyone confirm that if the water is turned off and pipes are drained, its not possible for them to bust?

Posts like this make me want to invest in a kerosene heater. We had one when I was a kid, and that mfer kept the place nice and toasty.

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If you had an ongoing water leak when you arrived home, it's definitely not a drain line.

The worst that could happen in a drain, is that the water in the traps could freeze. It would not result in ongoing water gushing.

Currently vacationing in Colorado and our neighbor texted us the fun news we had the same thing happening! Such a fun time!

Awww, hope they’re getting better.❤️

Thank you!

I was about to say… this area is full of trucking and industrial business. Not my idea of a desirable spring.

The Beef Swellington from L’Opossum

If they knew where they lost it, it probably wouldn’t be lost