LA - Mickey Shunick, 21, Lafayette 19 May 2012 - #28

[JurysOut]

Yep, I'm right there with ya! I have been on this site for a long time and you can certainly discern who are the veteran sleuthers and who are just here to chat. I've found myself wanting to block 75% of the people so now I just peek in here and there. Most of us haven't the time to read through such chatter.

Hmm..I haven't been in this thread most of this week. I was feeling guilty, but maybe I didn't miss much after all.

 

[Mahouston69]

I have a question for locals. This time of year are the coulees dry, or full of water? OR is that just when it floods? A month ago, what were they like? curious.

 

[shann76]

CS is back to posting on FB, that makes me feel better I was hoping they had not gotten horrible news or something since it's been so quiet. I think it's probably healthy to step away from the computer sometimes and take a break....especially since it appears she is still being bombarded with rumors (via private message I assume). She reposted the statement about not believing anything that doesn't come from family or LE. So, I guess there are still rumors floating around.

I had read on her page on Thursday I think she had told someone she was going to be out of town for a day and a half....could explain why she didn't post

 

[Schmidty]

hi lurkers, just logging in to see if there's anything new

 

[GateKeeper]

hi lurkers, just logging in to see if there's anything new

Nothing new...
Been scared to set foot in here today...yikes. It got a little "crazy" and OT. IMO

Prayers are are goin out for you Mikey,and your family.

 

[Schmidty]

Nothing new...
Been scared to set foot in here today...yikes. It got a little "crazy" and OT. IMO

Prayers are are goin out for you Mikey,and your family.

Yes, there's been a noticeable change in tone in the last few days. Not much for me (or anyone else, I suppose) to comment on so I mostly read. I am most frustrated at LE's silence. I feel there is way too much secrecy surrounding Mickey's disappearance.

 

[GateKeeper]

Yes, there's been a noticeable change in tone in the last few days. Not much for me (or anyone else, I suppose) to comment on so I mostly read. I am most frustrated at LE's silence. I feel there is way too much secrecy surrounding Mickey's disappearance.

Sometimes...its good just to "read"...to be a lurker. You catch alot little details that way. IMO..of course.

Plus...it makes me seem mysterious. Right?

 

[Schmidty]

Sometimes...its good just to "read"...to be a lurker. You catch alot little details that way. IMO..of course.

Plus...it makes me seem mysterious. Right?

You have been successful at seeming mysterious since I joined, gatekeeper. I think it's the tattoo.

and the poem. definitely the poem. i even looked it up the first time i saw it in your posts ....it appeals to me

 

[LaffySleuth]

I have a question for locals. This time of year are the coulees dry, or full of water? OR is that just when it floods? A month ago, what were they like? curious.

Depends on how often it rains.

It's been pretty random, actually. But I'll say this and I guess it can be applied both ways: When it rains, it pours.

The last rain we had was really bad. Coulees were about a quarter (at least where I am) full, current strong.

 

[Mr. Noatak]

Honestly, it can take much longer to fill up if you have to park, go inside and stand in line to pay, come out to pump gas, etc. You may not be willing to put the stills at more than two minutes apart, but it could conceivably be that they were TEN minutes apart. Without knowing if the "pay at the pump" option was used or if the gas was paid for indoors, and without knowing if there was a line or not, we simply do not have the information to make a definitive supposition.

THANK YOU!

I've been married to a man who works in the oilfield for close to forty years. My experience is that when the phone rings, you go!

You can schedule days off in advance, but even then, if the phone rings, you go. My hubby specializes in high pressure, high risk jobs, and he is often asked for by name.....his reputation is that he is the very best at what he does, and he will almost never refuse to go out and help. His presence and expertise prevents blowouts and other big bad accidents.

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My opinions only, no facts here:

As I have mentioned in earlier posts, I have been enhancing digital images for ten years, a necessity for my scientific papers. It is shop talk to me that enlarging an image and increasing the pixel density is putting your faith upon the people who wrote the software. That is why I SELECT MY SOFTWARE CAREFULLY. I have been involved with computers for 36 years.

I use strong, absurd, and even sublime disclaimers (including the word "fantasy") to prevent readers from misinterpreting my uploaded images from the originals. In spite of that, a few have accidentally mistaken my enhanced images for originals (and now I hear that even the so-called 'original' images may have been altered before being released to the public!).

Anyway, to make a long story short, I was going to present a close-up enhancement of the driver's face in the 1st white truck (Circle-K) image, but you have successfully convinced me not to. Trying to ID the driver or the vehicle is probably impeding the discussion here.

 

[andalso]

My opinions only, no facts here:

As I have mentioned in earlier posts, I have been enhancing digital images for ten years, a necessity for my scientific papers. It is shop talk to me that enlarging an image and increasing the pixel density is putting your faith upon the people who wrote the software. That is why I SELECT MY SOFTWARE CAREFULLY. I have been involved with computers for 36 years.

I use strong, absurd, and even sublime disclaimers (including the word "fantasy") to prevent readers from misinterpreting my uploaded images from the originals. In spite of that, a few have accidentally mistaken my enhanced images for originals (and now I hear that even the so-called 'original' images may have been altered before being released to the public!).

Anyway, to make a long story short, I was going to present a close-up enhancement of the driver's face in the 1st white truck (Circle-K) image, but you have successfully convinced me not to. Trying to ID the driver or the vehicle is probably impeding the discussion here.

BBM: I am sorry to hear you won't be posting this, but I do understand why.

 

[AWOLNATION]

Rude posts are acceptable, but ones calling out that bad behavior aren't? #logic

- This is AWOLNATION

 

[Boudin]

I have a question for locals. This time of year are the coulees dry, or full of water? OR is that just when it floods? A month ago, what were they like? curious.

They were dry when MS went missing and were search but I am not sure how extensively. A coullee runs right by Ryan St.

 

[andalso]

ACI
What would be the best way for us here at WS to help you? That is, if there is anything we can do to help?
TIA

 

[kgeaux]

Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there! I hope your day is filled with love, peace and joy! :blowkiss:

Please take a moment today to think about Tom Shunick and all the other dads who are facing this day with the absence of one of their beloved children. This is going to be a hard, hard day for those dads and families.

 

[concentric]

Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there! I hope your day is filled with love, peace and joy! :blowkiss:

Please take a moment today to think about Tom Shunick and all the other dads who are facing this day with the absence of one of their beloved children. This is going to be a hard, hard day for those dads and families.

------

I, for one, won't be wishing "all the dads out there" a Happy Father's Day, because, well, let's just say that some dads are really evil people.

However, I do wish all of the few good men who are good dads, a Happy Father's Day, and especially those over the many, many years, who have lost loved ones. May God bless them in their endeavors to find the missing and murdered.

 

[chicken fried]

No, I replied to a post that interested me in that I couldn't understand all the posts throughout this case that indicated that people who work for the oil industry are being held hostage by it. That's all. Finally someone came along and said, that's not necessarily true and I said 'oh, I had been wondering about that.' It wasn't really about the choice Mickey's dad made. But because of it, I was having to learn about oil industry hostages.

I have to point out to you that your choice of the word "hostages" is akin to calling firemen hostages who leave the Thanksgiving table to respond to a five-alarm fire with people trapped on the upper floors.

I can understand how you're thinking, based upon that a lot of people don't understand something about drilling oil. In oil drilling, emergency situations come up more often than you know. I have several cousins offshore at the moment, including a rig manager, my uncle worked his whole career for Texaco, my grandfather worked his whole career for Texaco, and my great-grandfather was present at Spindletop in Sour Lake, Texas, when the first huge strike was made in the early 1900s that made Texaco.

Deepwater Horizon blew out due to unmanageable pressure coming from under the ground. What allows you to drive your car, if you drive, is that men and women are working tirelessly, 24/7, to manage incredible pressure from inside the earth's crust, without a Deepwater Horizon happening once a week.

That mammoth pressure has to be managed vigiliantly, 24/7, through a series of valves.

The pressure is not constant. As the drill bit proceeds, core samples are brought up, and examined by geologists such as Mr. Shunick to determine what sort of stratum the bit is getting into. Hitting a different stratum as the bit goes deeper can make the underground pressure change suddenly and violently, and result in a blowout. The earth's underground pressure doesn't respect high-school graduations, weddings or funerals. Mr. Shunick is a specialist - not a roustabout. There aren't as many Mr. Shunicks to go around as your everyday roustabout.

It is part of Mr. Shunick's job to be available to fly out to a rig in a hurry to evaluate a rig whose pressures are changing, so as to prevent a disaster.

If that rig needed him - and if that particular company had only one geologist on call - then Mr. Shunick may well have been needed immediately to look at the samples - to prevent a blowout of the well.

Even had he asked for the day off... the earth doesn't care. That's his job.

I hope that helps you understand better, and also helps you realize why questioning Mr. Shunick's absence at his son's graduation reflects more on his job than on his character or choices.

 

[chicken fried]

I have a question for locals. This time of year are the coulees dry, or full of water? OR is that just when it floods? A month ago, what were they like? curious.

The coulees were almost empty. The last rain had been 1/2-inch on May 11. After that, there's just a little in the bottom, from lawn-water runoff, etc.. The next rain was May 21. The coulees will fill after a rain, but usually empty out within a day or two. Hope that helps.

 

[NewYork625]

I have to point out to you that your choice of the word "hostages" is akin to calling firemen hostages who leave the Thanksgiving table to respond to a five-alarm fire with people trapped on the upper floors.

I can understand how you're thinking, based upon that a lot of people don't understand something about drilling oil. In oil drilling, emergency situations come up more often than you know. I have several cousins offshore at the moment, including a rig manager, my uncle worked his whole career for Texaco, my grandfather worked his whole career for Texaco, and my great-grandfather was present at Spindletop in Sour Lake, Texas, when the first huge strike was made in the early 1900s that made Texaco.

Deepwater Horizon blew out due to unmanageable pressure coming from under the ground. What allows you to drive your car, if you drive, is that men and women are working tirelessly, 24/7, to manage incredible pressure from inside the earth's crust, without a Deepwater Horizon happening once a week.

That mammoth pressure has to be managed vigiliantly, 24/7, through a series of valves.

The pressure is not constant. As the drill bit proceeds, core samples are brought up, and examined by geologists such as Mr. Shunick to determine what sort of stratum the bit is getting into. Hitting a different stratum as the bit goes deeper can make the underground pressure change suddenly and violently, and result in a blowout. The earth's underground pressure doesn't respect high-school graduations, weddings or funerals. Mr. Shunick is a specialist - not a roustabout. There aren't as many Mr. Shunicks to go around as your everyday roustabout.

It is part of Mr. Shunick's job to be available to fly out to a rig in a hurry to evaluate a rig whose pressures are changing, so as to prevent a disaster.

If that rig needed him - and if that particular company had only one geologist on call - then Mr. Shunick may well have been needed immediately to look at the samples - to prevent a blowout of the well.

Even had he asked for the day off... the earth doesn't care. That's his job.

I hope that helps you understand better, and also helps you realize why questioning Mr. Shunick's absence at his son's graduation reflects more on his job than on his character or choices.

...or maybe his absence reflects on his character in a positive way!

 

[heartfortruth]

It is part of Mr. Shunick's job to be available to fly out to a rig in a hurry to evaluate a rig whose pressures are changing, so as to prevent a disaster.

If that rig needed him - and if that particular company had only one geologist on call - then Mr. Shunick may well have been needed immediately to look at the samples - to prevent a blowout of the well.

Even had he asked for the day off... the earth doesn't care. That's his job.

I hope that helps you understand better, and also helps you realize why questioning Mr. Shunick's absence at his son's graduation reflects more on his job than on his character or choices.
(above is part of post by Chicken Fried)

DH is retired geologist who has worked off shore before and he completely agrees with this and said that if Mr S was needed in order to look at samples for this reason if he had NOT gone then he "would be the bad guy".

just thought I would add that and I feel we need to let this alone......jmo

.........CF , you "know some stuff"........(as DH likes to say).....and you say it well...IMO
thanks for being here.