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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

Hurricane Harvey

Just woke up to pounding rain, non stop lightning. Harvey was just late getting here but he has arrived.
 
Hopefully no tornadoes. They are the highly dangerous and unpredictable component of land falling hurricanes. Yeah, on top of everything else, of course....

Hope you don't have any damages...
 
Hey, Lucille, you and yours holding up okay? I'm watching the news and it looks rough there.
 
Unfortunately things look bad. The street in front of and beside me is flooded (and I continue to see motorists drive through the deep waters), the water is over the sidewalk and up onto my lawn at times and recedes somewhat during lulls in the rain. Earlier I saw someone's mailbox float by.

I mentioned that I was fixing to move in a few weeks so most of what I own is in boxes in the garage which will flood first, but things are stacked up in there and the walkway between kitchen and garage is barely passable because I stacked the patio set and garden stuff there so they would be thrown about in the wind and possibly hurt someone.

On the other hand, the boxes are double stacked, it may be that the top layer of boxes will escape any water.
I was able to find the box with the albums of baby pictures so those are safe in the house with me.

I'm hoping and praying that the house will not flood but with days of rain in front of me, I don't know what will happen.
What's important is not the stuff though, I am fine, my sons, daughter in law and grand baby in Houston are fine but flooded into their area too just like I am. But people are what are important and we are all OK, thank you for asking.
 
Yeah, hope things will be OK for you. Are their any dams upstream from your area that are in danger of breaking open? This storm seems like it is highly unusual for the amount of rain it will produce in that area, so any dams made were probably not designed with this much water pressure in mind. So you might want to check that out if you haven't already. If there is any danger of that, you might want to bail out to higher and safer ground.
 
That is a LOT of water...
 

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Wow! That's pretty amazing!
 
I hope everyone is doing well. Stay dry as best you can and anyone in the rockport area in need of supplies pm me. I will be going down this weekend most likely to see what's left of our family house.
 
I hope your house was spared any damage. Cross your fingers.
 
Ryan I'm hoping for the best for your family home, and if there is damage that it can be repaired.
 
Thank you very much and luckily we are good on everything. The house is used more as a vacation home which we boarded up and left unoccupied.
 
Thank you so much for asking. I have plenty of canned food and still have electricity so the freezer still has food, so I am fine with food and supplies; but it is supposed to rain heavily for the next few days and it is very stressful to think that I might lose everything.
But as long as my family and myself (and the critters) get out of this hurricane alive, that is what is important.
I'll be glad when it is all over.
 
It is encouraging that the water in the street drained during the night and despite heavy rain so far the street is not flooding, that may mean that yesterday's flood water was the result of a blocked drain that the city took care of.

My disaster rations include warm brown sugar oatmeal nut chocolate chip brownies that just came out of the oven :D
 
Garage and walkway have flooded, front yard is a lake. I've probably lost most of my stuff which was boxed up in the garage waiting for the move. Another few weeks and I would have been well away from the coast.
 
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