tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7270238.post113591932766294484..comments2023-06-27T08:52:55.566-06:00Comments on The Marvelous A: Eleven MinutesAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17905923258826602899noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7270238.post-1135995377698237092005-12-30T19:16:00.000-07:002005-12-30T19:16:00.000-07:00Thanks for that — stellar. Because if that had bee...Thanks for that — stellar. Because if that had been a single paragraph, my head would have exploded somewhere around "backwash tank."Shepcathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10435989618782168347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7270238.post-1135991521947057462005-12-30T18:12:00.000-07:002005-12-30T18:12:00.000-07:00Great stuff A! I feel like I am ready to ride sho...Great stuff A! I feel like I am ready to ride shotgun on the next filter cleaning cycle after reading all of that. One thing that always bummed me out when I was a field engineer with Shurtleff & Andrews Corp. is that I never go to see any of the stuff I helped put together operate... None of the rotary kilns, none of the giant pumps or boilers, none of the giant conveyors, not even the Thermal Recompression Tripple Effect Malto-Dextrin Evaporator...a572mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09014903383908773584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7270238.post-1135988612299289192005-12-30T17:23:00.000-07:002005-12-30T17:23:00.000-07:00Miraculously, the Garyville plant came through pre...Miraculously, the Garyville plant came through pretty much unscathed, and after a brief absense of employees whose homes were damaged and/or destroyed, production resumed.<BR/><BR/>I knew you'd like that. And did you notice all the purposeful indentions?Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17905923258826602899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7270238.post-1135923145551399412005-12-29T23:12:00.000-07:002005-12-29T23:12:00.000-07:00You had me at "influent flume." (I love these entr...You had me at "influent flume." (I love these entries.)<BR/><BR/>This one made me think back to <A HREF="http://marvelousa.blogspot.com/2005/08/while-you-were-sleeping.html" REL="nofollow">your first post-Katrina entry</A> — which, more than anything else I read at that time, illustrated the far-reaching effects of the disaster in Louisiana — and until now I forgot to ask whether the Garyville plant ever got back up and running or you're getting your coagulant from someplace else these days.<BR/><BR/>You've turned me into such a geek.Shepcathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10435989618782168347noreply@blogger.com