GA_Dave

When I got hired at the Fire Department in 1986, I was told that Station 2 was "haunted". There were lots of stories and claims of proof, but I figured that it was just some sort of hazing by the older members. I never worked there in my first 2-3 years on the job. The Station was built in the early 1970's on the site of an old house owned by "Mr. Whitlock", who had passed away in the house several years prior. His longtime next door neighbor, "Miss Rome", was still alive when he died, but only lived a few more years. Her house was still standing, but vacant since her death. The stories say events began shortly after the station opened. When built, it was two bays wide, with offices and a dayroom on the right side and the bunk room, bathroom and kitchen on the left. Two additions were added, a single truck bay on the far right side in 1982, and a "community" room across the back a short time later. The back door of the kitchen now opened into a hallway that separated the community room from two bathrooms and the outside door at the end of the hallway. (The street view photo shows the front of the Station, looking south. The aerial view shows the Station faces north, with the community room on the south side. Miss Rome's house was east of the station, centered about the same location as the single tree at the NW corner of the current building.) The events, as the stories go, were things like knocks at the door, but no one there, lights turning on and off by themselves, compartment doors on the trucks being slammed shut when the building was secured and everyone sitting in the kitchen. Often, late in the evening, the sound of footsteps going up stairs could be heard along the back wall of the kitchen. The claim was that it was Mr. Whitlock going up to bed. Older guys confirmed that there had been stairs there in Mr. Whitlock's house, but they were long gone. The biggest event occurred around 1980. A fire call for Engine 2 was received around 2 AM. As the pumper was ready to roll, they were short one man. The officer ran back to the bunk room to get him and found him next to his bunk, white as a sheet and shaking like a leaf. He said that Mr. Whitlock had held him down in his bed, then suddenly disappeared, causing the delay. Both men ran to the engine and they raced to the scene of a tanker truck on fire. As they approached, the tanker blew up, destroying everything close by, including where Engine 2 would have been if not for the delay caused by Mr. Whitlock. These were the stories I heard in my early years there. I never put much stock in them, assuming they were just stories. Then I was reassigned to Station 2. I began to witness many of those events that I had been told about. The knocks at the kitchen door, the sound of footsteps going up non-existent stairs in the evening, compartment doors slamming in the middle of the night, lights turning on and off with no one there. I became a believer in Mr. Whitlock! Around 1992, Miss Rome's house was falling apart. The City condemned it and the Fire Department used it for fire training until nothing was left. We never heard from Mr. Whitlock again.

Serious answer: Absolutely not! I was around 13 or 14. I wasn't the only one there, several of my friends also saw the same thing. We were kids, no one believed us. It was almost dark on a cloudless evening. An object rose above the treeline, numerous flashing lights around it. At about 35 degrees above us, it hovered for several seconds without a sound. We all thought it was a helicopter, about 7 blocks north of us at the lake (Erie) shore. Suddenly, it took off to the west-southwest, along the lake shore, completely out of sight in under 5 seconds. The acceleration was unreal, yet we had just seen it happen. No sound at all, just there and then gone. No helicopter, not even Airwolf, can go that fast from a dead stop, nor can any other man-made aircraft, even today.

Hmm..... I have no proof, there is no evidence, but I saw what I saw and nothing in the past 50+ years has explained it.

I really don't think they need to put anyone else up there, but I thank God every single day that it isn't Kamala or Hillary!

My tax return was nowhere near $4000, but my withholding amounts are at the minimum, so I am not letting the feds use my money all year for free. The past several years, I have owed a couple hundred bucks at tax time, but I plan for it and it's no big deal. Due to a couple one-time income streams (money earned in 2024, but not received until 2025), I filed on around $14000 more for 2025 than I did for 2024. Due to the new and continuing tax cuts brought about by the President, I paid LESS tax in 2025 than I did in 2024. THANK YOU, President Trump!

Nowhere near the number that have been murdered in abortion clinics! Tell us, how many? Please provide specific incidences, details and PROOF that the shooter was a republican. I'll wait.

Yeah, 3/1000 of an inch bigger...... That looks like a GREAT varmint gun. Some varmints only have two legs........

I seriously hope she runs. I can't wait to see dems spend a small fortune on her campaign, only for her to lose like their last idiot lost!

And today, I filled up at my usual spot for #3.49/gal before my 3 Cent/gal discount.

I drove about 200 miles today. Cheapest price for regular gas I saw was $3.59, highest was #3.99. The place where I usually fill up was $3.61 before my 3 Cent/gal discount.

I have owned three FC-150's over the years, along with an M-677, but all three 150's were buckets of rust. The 677 was supposed to be payment for work I had done, but the guy traded it away to someone else before I got it.

$3.59 here, Governor is talking about stopping the State gas tax again.

"Longerish". Is that a technical term?

Wishing you the best of luck on your new adventure!

Like he or I care what you believe. His "uniform", by established protocol, is a business suit. No mention is made about a hat, neither for nor against. The ONLY people who seem to have an issue with it are you clowns on the left, who have an issue with anything and everything he does.

That's PRESIDENT asshole to you! He's the Commander in Chief of the US Military and wore a white USA hat, not a "baseball cap". He represented no baseball team. He represented the United States. And, as military regulations require, he saluted when appropriate, just like the other military officers who attended.

He would have drowned in the Delaware!

He really IS a retard!

This didn’t begin Friday. Carter started it. He watched the Islamic Republic take power, watched American diplomats get seized and paraded on television for 444 days, spent the rest of his presidency negotiating with people who had already told us exactly what they were. Reagan facilitated it. October 23rd, 1983. A Hezbollah truck bomb funded and directed by Iran killed 241 United States Marines in Beirut while they slept. The deadliest single day for the Marine Corps since Iwo Jima. Reagan’s response? Tehran was heard clearly and never forgotten kill enough Americans at once and America will leave. That lesson became the operational blueprint for every Iran-backed proxy attack for the next forty years. Clinton ignored it. 1995 — a car bomb in Riyadh kills five Americans. 1996 — Khobar Towers. A massive truck bomb kills 19 United States Air Force personnel in Saudi Arabia. Nothing. 1998 — Embassy bombings in Africa. 2000 — USS Cole. Seventeen sailors killed. Clinton launched missiles at an empty training camp and an aspirin factory. Eight years. Hundreds of Americans dead or wounded. Zero consequences for Tehran. Bush handed them the keys. He called them the Axis of Evil correctly. Then invaded two countries simultaneously and handed Iran the greatest strategic gift in its history. Iranian Quds Force operatives flooded across the border funding, training, and arming the militias killing our soldiers. And the response was to continue the war while avoiding direct confrontation with the country killing our people. By the time Bush left office Iran had deeper influence in Iraq than we did. Obama funded it. This is where failure becomes unforgivable. The Green Revolution of 2009 where millions of Iranians in the streets begging for American support ignored. The protesters were crushed. The regime survived. Then came the $150 billion in sanctions relief, sunset clauses that expired within a decade, zero restrictions on ballistic missiles, and zero restrictions on funding proxy terror networks. Then came the cash. $1.7 billion. On pallets. On an unmarked plane. In the middle of the night. Delivered simultaneously with American hostages. The regime used the imagery as propaganda for years and used the money to fund Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthi expansion in Yemen, and the proxy militia networks in Iraq and Syria that spent the next decade killing Americans. Obama literally funded the apparatus that put the drone into Tower 22. Biden surrendered to it. 160-plus attacks on American forces from October 2023 forward. American soldiers killed in Jordan. Two Navy SEALs lost at sea intercepting Iranian weapons shipments to the Houthis. Houthi missiles disrupting global shipping lanes. Iranian proxies running operations across five countries. Three Georgia soldiers died in their beds. Then came Trump. He looked at forty-five years of this record and did something no president had done since the hostages came home. He said no. Maximum pressure. IRGC designated as a foreign terrorist organization. Sanctions reimposed. The JCPOA abandoned. Soleimani the architect of Iranian proxy violence across the entire Middle East, personally responsible for hundreds of American deaths killed in a precision strike in January 2020. The regime paralyzed. The proxies recalibrated. The nuclear program set back. For the first time in four decades the regime faced a president it genuinely could not predict. Then Trump left office. Biden came in. The pressure evaporated. The appeasement resumed. And the regime, patient as it has always been, went back to work. And now we’re here. So the next time someone tells you this is Trump’s war tell them they are brainless twats. This isn’t Trump’s war. This is forty-five years of American presidents refusing to finish it and one president finally deciding that the bill comes due. If you are not capable of comprehending that move to Iran and defend the regime personally. Insurrection Barbie

Of course you don't. I could have bet money on it!

I foresee the Tree of Liberty being watered with the blood of tyrants and Patriots in the near future!

My old wife has never changed the oil.....

Starting with my first car in 1977, I bought the least expensive, name brand oil in the store, Pennzoil. I have owned 44 vehicles so far and have used nothing but Pennzoil ever since the first and have never had any issues due to oil. I changed it every 3000 miles until I switched to synthetic Pennzoil in 2010 when I bought my Challenger. I use it in my 2014 Durango too, and change both at 6000 miles. The Challenger is about to hit 218k and has had no engine issues. My point isn't that Pennzoil is the best, but that consistency helps. Since nearly every brand of motor oil has their own "formula", I have always felt that mixing brands is not a good thing. No matter how well you drain the oil when changing it, some oil remains in the engine to mix with the new oil. I'd rather it all be the same kind/brand of oil.

8" would shut Atlanta completely down for days. Back in Buffalo, we'd call it a "dusting" and go on about our lives.