[Vision2020] Roaches, was tunnels

Fri Feb 20 18:19:09 PST 2009

The Egan Apartments (Eggan?) in beautiful downtown Moscow was always  
rife with roaches.  That's the building across from the cop shop.  I  
think Hyperspud and Gem State Crystals occupy the main street  
storefronts these days.  This was back in the 1970's and 80's.  I  
don't know how that building is now.  But they certainly had plenty  
of roaches back then.  (Thankfully I never lived there).

SB

On Feb 20, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Sue Hovey wrote:

And I've always bragged to my Texas brothers and sisters that my  
favorite thing about Moscow is that we don't have roaches.  In San  
Antonio we had roaches and crickets.  At night on the freeways the  
crickets would be drawn to the lights and I can remember the sound as  
our tires ran over them by the thousands.  The road sometimes got so  
slick cars would spin out of control--our version of black ice, I  
suppose.

Sue H.
----- Original Message -----
From: Sunil Ramalingam
Cc: vision 2020
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 7:19 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

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

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

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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