Wreak of the Shipwrecked Brew Pub

https://youtu.be/LmJZG9kPceE


 We had a long talk with the owner of the Chocolate Chicken which is located across the street of the

former Shipwreaked Brew Pub.

It was a hot day at 90 degrees when  at 11:30AM someone reported smoke upstairs in the living area and an office where the owners ran 6 other businesses. They ran upstairs with a fire extinguisher but it was already too late.

Employees the rushed upstairs as  the fire departments started arriving.  People were throwing boxes and filing cabinets out the windows trying to save the records for other 6 other businesses. 

Every Fire Department in Door County (unconfirmed) arrived for the next half hour creating a domino effect as Green Bay and other stations in the area were called in to cover for the Door County engines.

Over 100 fighters were on hand as teams were sent in but the house was so old with so many additions and hallways and tiny rooms it was a nightmare and like a puzzle and getting lost was a worry.

14 fire fighters were injured with dehydration and heat stroke with 3 being med vac'd to Green Bay.

After two and a half hours they decided to not risk lives and blew the horns of the trucks signifying no more ventures inside. Let it burn.  Too dangerous. keep the outside controlled 

3 hours it was out but flared up later that night but was extinguished.  The GOOD news is that the downstairs was saved. Totally.  However, with so much water damage (over 3 feet in the basement) the building was a loss.

Meanwhile at the Chocolate Chicken the ice cream shop air conditioners were turned off in the sweltering heat and things were melting. Pictures were coming unglued and dropping to the floor. 

The brew system in the basement was saved along with a LOT of beer.  Also found were hidden rooms filled with old whisky (unconfirmed).  The fire never reached the ground floor but the water did. 3 feet of it.

The final result is they will rebuild and the plan is to be open in the spring.  The issue is that the new building cannot be grandfathered in and new ordinances and set backs will change the look and feel.

This will actually help The Chicken as they will be more visible. With the 2 biggest weekends of the summer coming this and next weekend (it's NUTS, over 200,000 people in Egg Harbor alone) they are gearing up for a busy few weeks, espicially with  so many people looking at the former site.

It was a slow season in Door as Chicago schools let out the 3rd week of June and then went back the last week of  August.  This bad because Door County loses all their employees and are covered with kids from Slovakia this year.  Door County tourism is all about Chicago (a crap load of Cub fans).

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In other random news

Looks like one of the actual ADULTS running the country and keeping us out of nuclear is getting canned today.

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Puerto Rico bonds fell 31%  after the President said The US will wipe out all of Puerto Rico's debt.  Then the budget director TRIED to walk back that statement.   

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Netflix is hiking the subscription rate up a dollar.

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54% of republicans now say homosexuality should be accepted in today's society.  WOW!  this is a victory?

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A friend of mine works in the butter industry. Grassland Dairy Products makes 1/3 of all butter in the US and butter sales look to be 10% greater then last year.  I think it's all from deep fat fried butter (a real thing) and fairs.

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GOOD GOD - Not ANOTHER snow mobile trail controversy in Columbus!  5 years in a row?  COME ON!!  We have spent more time on snow mobiles then the trails have been open.  All this for 2 freaking weeks a year?  What a freaking waste of time.

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same shot, same date,  2 years apart.  Global Warming?

Have a rainy weekend . . .well, Saturday will be all rain.  Sunday AWESOME - don't get used to it.

ZERO PERCENT.

This being near the 60th time we have come to Door County we pretty much know what to expect.  NOT THIS TIME. 

Early October it's always amazing fantastic color time in Door but this year.  ZERO PERCENT.  We were talking to Mathew the fish boil guy and he was also commenting on the lack of color this year. 

We sort of know Mathew because his father was the guy that brought fish boils to Door in the 50s and my parents new him.  We started going to fish boils in the late 50s and my dad who seemed to know EVERYONE was friends with him.   Dad was a Mason and had a knack of talking to everyone and anyone, a trait that I seemed to have picked up.  I remember dad flashing his ring a few times when the family was in some sort of distress. 

ANYWAY - no color.  Not one speck.  NOT complaining though.  This is scene from our balcony as we wake up.  

Yea - we had a fish boil last night.  AS always - really really good. 

 Mathew also owns Caseys BBQ in Egg Harbor. The guy probably hates fish after doing this 10,000 times. 

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I'm not going to get into this whole gun thing.  Even after Las Vegas America is near an all time low in gun homicides.  Sorry my liberal friends.  OH - gun suicides are near an all time high. Take away guns and suicide deaths drop like a rock.  Bottom line - More guns = more deaths.

What happened in LV is nothing new. America is not changing  There have been mass deaths for hundreds of years.  in 1873 150 African Americans were hanged. In 1949 13 people were killed by a neighbor. 8 concert goers were killed in 1903. 

"If we focus on mass shootings as a means of understanding how to reduce the number of people killed by guns in this country, we’re likely to implement laws that don’t do what we want them to do — and miss opportunities to make changes that really work. Gun violence isn’t one problem, it’s many. And it probably won’t have a single solution, either."

Although the killer DID own 42 guns with a few AR-15s

I'm sure our lair in Chief is breathing easier now that we are not focused on his FUBR Puerto Rico mess he wants to just go away. 

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Ever think about tackling Eli Manning? You next chance is coming if you are a LACharger.

Five teams have less then a 5% chance of making the NFL playoffs.  Cleveland, San Francisco, LAChargers,  NYGiants and DA BEARS.

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Off to breakfast.

  

Road trip, TGCTours, Las Vegas, and so forth

 I have a group of friends in Las Vegas (balderdash and his group) and all are safe.  I'm sure we will hear that if EVERYBODY had guns it would make the police deportment's job much easier.

Tremendous acts of bravery by the LV Police Department.  I do so respect police officers.  Yea yea I can rail on their actions because I wear my emotions on the outside of my skin but I have a shit load of respect for them 90% of the time.  It's hard for me to carry a grudge (which seems to be a Columbus thing - grudges).  I just can't do it.

The LV massacre is one of the largest mass shootings in American history. There will be anti-gun conversation once again and once again nothing will be done.  The NRA will make sure of that. 

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The Children’s Health Insurance Program which dropped uninsured children in America from 13% to 4% is set to  expire this month. Let's see if the GOP wants to help or save that money to create jobs.

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ANYWAY - By the time you read this we will be in Door County but don't worry - all cameras are trained on the windows and doors so ... (dot dot dot) .

Sunday I took Captain Chaos to the dog park for his romp.  It's funny.  We drive  up and see 4 humans standing around and their dogs just sort of standing around and Gus is like a missile and just runs at full speed into the small pack and creates instant chaos.  It's a good thing.

When we got Gus we thought (and were told) he would be a good therapy dog. Didn't know that the therapy would be for DOGS.  So many times we have been told that little Rubeus or Draco or Falkor or Eltas never liked playing and running around UNTIL Gus taught him how.

All these dogs just stand around and then BAM, Gus shows up and you have 20 dogs all romping around chasing and being chased with glee.  And yea - there is a whole lot of weenie licking which I am REAL glad humans got out of that habit when meeting each other.

One woman said she was so happy to see her dog having a good time and actually playing.  Gus seems to bring happiness to all things (except butterfly's).

And names?  COME ON.  Every time we meet a dog and ask his or her name it's some name that I

Gus with his favorite friend and Mr. Pug

can not pronounce and/or have never heard before. I have a memory like a gold fish when it comes to dog names. I will never remember Jango Fett.  Probably why everyone remembers GUS.

ANYWAY - if you have a dog you must get him to the Columbus dog park. Friday there were 22 dogs all having the time of their lives.  The "bad" dogs are always in a different fenced off location. 

All Columbus needs now is something for teenagers to do. We keep getting playgrounds for children but we have nothing for high schoolers.  We treat dogs better then the kids we want to stay and grow up in Columbus. They are bored.  We need a dog park for high schoolers.   

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Being a 20 year member of CoCoRaHS (Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network - I was one of the first volunteers) we saw that 100% of the CoCoRaHS stations in Puero Rico went black.  Sunday, the very first station came back online.  I'm sure Trump will call it a major victory and stop all aid now.

Side note - Trumps dismal approval ratings are going back south after climbing 2 points to 38%.

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Want to know what country gets googled the most?  It's Iran.  The least, Tuvalu, but right in front to Tuvalo is Comoros.    Yea - me neither.

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In 2016 the Unites States spent $3.6 Billion arresting 600,000 cannabis users and charging them with felonies.  What a load of BS.  $3.6 Billion that could have been used in educating children about opiates. I hope the Columbus Police Force has visited our schools and talked to middle schoolers about drugs.

Four guys were indicted Friday in New Jersey for having 45 kilos of fentanyl.  About 18 million lethal does of an opiate which is driving the problems (perhaps we should spend some of that 3.6 BILLION on that instead of cannabis.

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OH - I see Trump says OJ was framed.   What a freaking embarrassment our President is.  I like how Ken Burns was talking about Vietnam (he seems to know a thing or two about history) and comparing our government NOW to the FUBR government that created Nam.  It's almost exact.

 For every 5 Americans that retire from blue collar jobs, only 2 are being replaced because Americans don't like hard work so there is an extreme shortage of construction workers and so forth.  YET - our government wants to, and is deporting the people that are willing to do that work. Yea -makes sense.

If Columbus has a population of 5066 with almost full employment (which is what the U.S. almost has) and we kick out 10%. Does that make Columbus stronger?  Is losing population a good thing for the economy?  Less people spending much less is a good thing?   Trump and his cronies seem to think so.  Ask the Wisconsin dairy industry how it's going with their workers. 

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Kevin Can Wait - WOW - what a horrible show that was.  IMDB voters rated it a 4.2 out of 10.   Last year it was in the 6s.

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In my virtual world I have climbed to the 2nd highest amateur tour on TGCTours.  With about 150 members in each level I'm now in the 5th highest.

I had so issues with getting my head in the game in last weeks tournament.  Of course I thought I could make that creek 160 yards away.  No.  Came up a foot shorts.  The problem was "I" (the real me) could not really see because MY vision was from behind that tree and I had a limb in my face.

OH - only people that got the game on Day 1 day wear those pants! 

We're not staying in Fish Creek this year - going to be a little south in Egg Harbor.

Fish Creek 

Cana Island Light House 

See ya tomorrow!