[Vision2020] Roaches, was tunnels
Kai Eiselein
editor at lataheagle.com
Fri Feb 20 10:35:15 PST 2009
I can identify with Mike. While in high school in Arizona I had a job at a Chinese restaurant and one of my duties was to take out the garbage eaxh night. One night I forgot to turn on the light outside the back door, since my hands were full, I hollered for someone to flip the switch.
When the light came on, cockroaches went scurrying everywhere, including up my pant legs.
I, too, screamed like a little girl.
A few years later, in college, a bunch of us went to see "Creepshow". Since I had an end seat, I was the designated snack bar runner. On one such run for sodas, I came back into the theatre and happened to look up at the screen just in time to see the cockroach scene and promptly fainted.
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From: Sunil Ramalingam
Cc: vision 2020
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 9:19 AM
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
----- Original Message -----
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
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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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