[Vision2020] Roaches, was tunnels

Fri Feb 20 09:24:13 PST 2009

We lived in Athens, Ohio, for a year when my dad went on a faculty exchange.
We exchanged our modest home for an obscene apartment (often described as a
"postage stamp" apartment by my less bitter-about-it relatives). We caught a
few mice there (which I was able to feed to our classroom boa), but my dad
made a game of trying to beat his nightly cockroach-killing record. See,
it's all about whether you make it fun . . . <blech>

Jennifer L. Ingalls

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From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Sunil Ramalingam
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 9:20 AM
Cc: vision 2020
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Roaches, was tunnels

Ah, Blatella germanica. 

[My dad is primarily a medical entomologist, and secondarily a
parasitologist, and to my mother's dismay dinner conversations often involve
worms, mosquitoes, and other insects.  We used to go through his books to
identify our pests.]

I've never had quite the experience Mike describes, but I remember a couple
of occasions when my parents decided to clean out our storerooms in M'sia.
As the boxes came out, so too the roaches that had taken cover in and around
them.  My dad didn't really mind them, but my mom's approach, adopted by all
of us, and which I blame on her excellent modelling, was much like Mike's
below. 

The worst events were when we would get an intense but short rainstorm in
the mid-evenings.  After the rain if it got warm again the roaches would
come out of the storm drains and fly in, or up the drains in the bathroom,
and then we'd have them - big ones - flying all over the house.  We killed
over thirty once, and I remember my sister running for the shelter of her
room, screaming, with a big one buzzing at her head. It got in with her,
which made her scream even more.

When World or European Cup soccer games were broadcast in the middle of the
night, I always had a badminton racket by me, to deal with the airborne
roaches, and my slippers for the terrestrial ones.  And a hockey stick for
the b.f. rat that we were pretty sure had moved into our room while we were
in college, but that's another story... 

Good times, good times.

Sunil

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From: coolerfixer at roadrunner.com
To: gussie443 at hotmail.com; sunilramalingam at hotmail.com
CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Roaches, was tunnels
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:56:50 -0800

Ummm....... I hate to burst anyones bubble, but... my work takes me to all
sorts of places in our little burg. I've seen those disgusting creatures for
decades. Unfortunately, they are the classic, stereotypical "german
cockroach". I still get the heebie jeebies about a service call I did in the
late 90's (I won't say where). An ice machine was not producing ice. Located
in the dimly lit basement, I began to remove the exterior panels when, just
like in a horror movie, literally thousands of roaches fell onto the floor
out of the machine. So many that they had stalled the condenser fan motor.
Yes, I screamed like a little girl while I grabbed my tool bag and ran! Ugh!
Had to fumigate my van and burn my clothes after I stripped outside in the
street.

Mike DeLeve'
Coldsmith Refrigeration
P.O. Box 8173
Moscow, ID  83843

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From: Ellen Roskovich 

To: Sunil Ramalingam 

Cc: vision 2020 

Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 8:20 AM Mike

Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Roaches, was tunnels

Sunil. . . I think the only roaches in Moscow live in the tunnels under the
UI.  And this is a good thing. . .  and we should all hope they stay there.
They are HUGE!!  and they hiss.  One of my son's classmates brought some to
class for "show and tell".  They ended up as classroom "pets" and I think
they fed them cornflakes.  I can't imagine stepping on one. Yuck.

Ellen A. Roskovich

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From: sunilramalingam at hotmail.com
CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:17:11 -0800
Subject: [Vision2020] Roaches, was tunnels

Janesta,

I've never seen a roach in Moscow.  This is the second time I've heard a
roach story here, but I've still escaped them.

In Malaysia we had Periplaneta americanas, which would fly around outside
and inside, and many other varieties. In Davis we had smaller, non-flying
roaches, and I was relieved not to find them here.

Now I guess I had better start looking around more carefully.

Sunil

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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:48:44 -0800
From: janesta at gmail.com
To: lfalen at turbonet.com
CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Tunnels

In 1978, I went into the tunnels, as I was working for a company that had a
contracted job down there.

It was heebie-jeebie time... HUGE cockroaches, in my imagination now, they
are as big as Madagascar Beetles! HA!!   I did not think those critters
existed in Idaho because of the cold. 

It was big down there, and there was evidence of people visiting for non
work purposes. I don't have a clue how to get to them anymore. It was quite
an exciting part of the job.

Janesta

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:49 AM, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:

I will take your word for it. Heimisch may have  been wrong, but he told me
that when he was Acting Dean of CALS.

Roger
-----Original message-----
From: Tom Hansen thansen at moscow.com

Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:01:44 -0800
To: lfalen lfalen at turbonet.com,  Dickow dickow at turbonet.com,
vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Tunnels

> The steam tunnels are NOT sealed from human access, Roger!
>
> I know this for a fact, first-hand fact.
>
> Enough said.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> > Not for steam, but according to Heimisch they are for people. That all I
> know about it. He
> told me that just after they increased the security to the Ag. Biotech.
> Building.
> > Roger
> > -----Original message-----
> > From: Tom Hansen thansen at moscow.com
> > Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:44:02 -0800

> > To: lfalen lfalen at turbonet.com,  Dickow dickow at turbonet.com,
> vision2020 at moscow.com

> > Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Tunnels
> >
> > > Roger Falen stated:
> > >
> > > "When I was an undergraduate living in Upham Hall, some kids went from
> > > there to all over campus by way of the tunnels. According to Dick
> > > Heimisch. they are now sealed off."
> > >
> > > Trust me, Roger.  The steam tunnels are NOT sealed off.
> > >
> > > Tom Hansen
> > > Moscow, Idaho
> > >

> > > "For a lapsed Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist
> > > Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to
> go
> > > to work."
> > >
> > > - Roy Zimmerman
> > >
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