3 Ton Central Air Unit
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3 Ton Central Air Unit
- An air conditioner (often referred to as AC) is a home appliance, system or mechanism designed to dehumidify and extract heat from an area. The cooling is done using a simple refrigeration cycle.
central air
- Each of the individuals or collocations into which a complex whole may be divided
- an individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole; “the reduced the number of units and installations”; “the word is a basic linguistic unit”
- An individual thing or person regarded as single and complete, esp. for purposes of calculation
- unit of measurement: any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange; “the dollar is the United States unit of currency”; “a unit of wheat is a bushel”; “change per unit volume”
- A device that has a specified function, esp. one forming part of a complex mechanism
- an organization regarded as part of a larger social group; “the coach said the offensive unit did a good job”; “after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit”
unit
- short ton: a United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds
- A unit of weight equal to 2,240 pounds avoirdupois (1016.05 kg)
- Proud of the Netherlands (Trots op Nederland, TON) is a Dutch Political party. The party was founded on 17 October 2007 by Rita Verdonk, who at that time was an independent member of the House of Representatives.
- A unit of weight equal to 2,000 pounds avoirdupois (907.19 kg)
- (tons) a large number or amount; “made lots of new friends”; “she amassed stacks of newspapers”
- A unit of measurement of a ship’s weight representing the weight of water it displaces, equal to 2,240 pounds or 35 cubic feet (0.99 cu m)
ton
- three: being one more than two
- three: the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
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3 ton central air unit – Air Spencer
The 2004 Utica Tornado Story – Part 3 of 3
Utica Tornado of April 20, 2004
Story by Julia Keller
First printed December 5, 6, and7 in the Chicago Tribune.
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Part 3:
After the storm’s fury
Left in tatters by a tornado, a small town remembers, rebuilds and begins to recover
By Julia Keller
Tribune staff reporter
Published December 7, 2004
They picked at the pile, inch by inch, stone by stone, just in case. They thought they’d gotten to everyone who was alive, but you had to be sure. You had to. Buckets of debris were passed from hand to hand along chains of firefighters. It began to rain, but nobody noticed.
Earlier that evening–at 6:09 p.m. April 20–a tornado had barreled through the town of Utica in north-central Illinois and, with a tornado’s savage whim, had shunned a building here but shredded one over there. Hitting and missing and hitting.
Milestone. That was where the firefighters now were gathered, hundreds of firefighters from 52 units throughout the state. The 117-year-old tavern near the corner of Church and Mill Streets had taken a direct hit and collapsed into a ponderous heap of wood, stone and concrete, trapping 17 people who had sought shelter within its thick walls.
Nine had been rescued earlier that night: Jim Ventrice, Rich Little, Jarad Stillwell, and Mike and Debbie Miller and their children Ashley, Jennifer, Gregg and Chris.
The eight others still down there, firefighters believed, were dead. But they had to be sure.
So they kept working, systematically removing buckets full of rubble, pushing back thoughts of anything except the task at hand: dig, fill the bucket, pass the bucket, dig.
The whole place was lighted like a movie set. The lights cast an eerie glow on the firefighters in their heavy gear and their hardhats, their steel-toed boots and leather gloves. The lights splashed up on their solemn faces, which looked steep and angular in the artificial glare. All of that illumination made it seem as if a strange new sun had been unearthed, a mixed-up one that didn’t know night from day.
At about 1:30 a.m., when the listening devices that were dropped down into crevices continued to fetch only silence, they knew the rescue part of their job was over. Now it was a different mission: recovering the bodies.
Buck Bierbom’s skid loader was waved forward to handle the larger chunks of debris, but they had to be careful, so careful. When firefighters edged close to a body, the heavy equipment backed off and the painstaking labor by hand recommenced, the tender, awful job of verifying what they already knew.
Bierbom was a local boy, Utica-born and Utica-raised, a slender, wiry man with a creased, weathered, beard-fringed face and the kindest eyes you’d ever hope to see. He and his brothers, Mark and Doug, had run their own construction company for 12 years. Utica Police Chief Joseph Bernardoni had called him at 6:30 p.m., 21 minutes after the tornado leveled Milestone, and asked him to get there with his skid loader and mini-excavator just as quick as he could.
So tonight Bierbom was unearthing the bodies of people he’d known all his life. People he’d grown up with. People he’d waved to on the street maybe twice, maybe three times a day for a whole bunch of years.
Shortly before dawn, when all the bodies had been located, a chain saw cut away sections of Milestone’s floor. Bierbom’s big machine removed the sections. Then Jody Bernard, the somber, petite LaSalle County coroner, or one of her three deputy coroners, would climb down, examine the body and pronounce the death.
Each body was placed in a blue bag, then the blue bag was lifted out of the hole.
At 6:59 a.m., they lifted out Jay Vezain.
At 7:04 a.m., Carol Schultheis.
At 11:12 a.m., Mike Miller Jr.
At 11:15 a.m., Larry Ventrice.
At 11:17 a.m., Beverly Wood.
At 11:22 a.m., Marian Ventrice.
At 11:25 a.m., Wayne Ball.
At 11:28 a.m., Helen Studebaker Mahnke.
All but Vezain and Schultheis died of traumatic asphyxiation, which means they were crushed to death, probably in the first instant of the collapse, when the walls and floors began to pancake down into the basement. Vezain and Schultheis, who never made it into the basement, died of blunt force trauma.
But those official-sounding causes of death, announced by Bernard at the coroner’s inquest May 27 at the LaSalle County Courthouse, hardly hint at what actually happens to human bodies when crushed by a two-story building: the brutality, the blunt and unimaginable violence of hundreds of tons of stone and wood and concrete collapsing upon fragile frames and soft flesh. There were shattered bones and severed arteries and fractured skulls and lacerated organs and one transection of the brain stem–decapitation.
The ones who survived did so because they chanced to be standing in just the right places. The walk-in cooler and the two freezers
Brooklyn Clay Retort and Fire Brick Works Storehouse
The Brooklyn Clay Retort and Fire Brick Works Storehouse is a significant mid-nineteenth century industrial building that is part of a complex established during the first era of development of Red Hook for shipping and industry. It is advantageously located with access to a slip in the Erie Basin. J.K. Brick & Company was founded by Joseph K, Brick in 1854 to manufacture products used in the production of illuminating gas by firms such as the Brooklyn Gas Light Company.
Joseph Brick is credited with introducing the fire-clay retort-vessels in which coal was heated to produce gas used for illumination— in the United States and his firm may have been the first in this country to manufacture retorts of fire clay, which made the production of illuminating gas economically feasible. In addition, the company, which became known as the Brooklyn Clay Retort and Fire Brick Company, offered a full line of refactory (aka ”fire") bricks, which were used in various industrial capacities, such as lining of iron furnaces.
During the nineteenth century the New York – New Jersey area was one of the major fire brick manufacturing centers in the United States. Today the Brooklyn Clay Retort and Fire Brick Works are the only extant buildings in the area connected with this once-significant industry. The c. 1859 Storehouse, probably designed by Brick, features main facades of roughly-cut and coursed ashlar of a local dark gray schist, detailed with brick and sandstone.
It has the distinctive basilica-like form of mid- and late nineteenth-century industrial workshops; characteristic of such buildings, a clerestory of windows, skylights, and a bull’s eye window in the Van Dyke Street facade light the interior from above and arched entrances correspond to the three-bay interior space.
DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS
The Development of Red Hook as an Industrial and Shipping Center
The Brooklyn Clay Retort and Fire Brick Works is located in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a waterfront neighborhood in the northwest part of the borough facing Governor’s Island. Named "Roode Hoek" by early Dutch settlers because of the color of its soil and its geographical configuration, Red Hook was isolated from the rest of South Brooklyn by a swampy area that eventually was drained by the Gowanus Canal.
Around 1800 Red Hook became one of the towns of Brooklyn’s administrative districts based on neighborhoods. It was chartered as a city in 1834. Land speculation began in the area during the early 1830s when the Red Hook Building Company acquired a large tract of land from the Van Dyke family; in 1838 the company proposed to build 500 houses whose occupants could take advantage of the ferry service the promoters envisioned connecting Red Hook to nearby Manhattan. However, this scheme was never implemented.
In 1840 Colonel Daniel Richards first obtained the approval of the State Legislature for the construction of the wharves of the Atlantic Basin, on Buttermilk Channel opposite Governor’s Island. Major work on the project did not take place, however, until around 1848, at which time Richards petitioned the city to open thirty-five streets in Red Hook around the Atlantic Basin. In 1843 William Beard purchased a large tract of land from George Hall, and began to reconfigure the Red Hook area by leveling and expanding it with landfill.
Beard, in partnership with Jeremiah P. Robinson, reclaimed one-million square feet of land and built the Erie Basin, at the southwest tip of Red Hook, and nearby wharves and warehouses during the 1850s and 1860s. In 1864 Beard sold land to the Anglo-American Dry Dock Company, which proceeded to establish a large operation at Erie Basin.
Several industrial and storage businesses located in the developing Red Hook area during the 1850s. The industrial firms included the Brooklyn Clay Retort and Fire Brick Company on Van Dyke Street, H.R. Worthington’s Steam Pump Manufactory near the northeastern end of the Atlantic Basin, the Esler & Company Boiler Factory near the southwestern end of the Atlantic Basin, and the New York Patent Felt Company at the corner of Van Brunt and William Streets.
The Red Hook Oil Stores of F.W. Green & Company, and the Wales, Wetmore & Company Oil Yard were located between Van Brunt Street and the northern end of Erie Basin in 1860. In addition the "W. Beard and J.B. and G.C. Robinson Stores" (warehouses) were built on that site during the 1860s and 1870s, adding to the earlier warehousing facilities surrounding the Atlantic Basin such as the nearby Excelsior Stores and Abel Thompson’s Storage Stores.
During the last decades of the nineteenth century the character of Red Hook became increasingly diverse as residential development finally occurred alongside the shipping and industrial facilities. The Erie and Atlantic Basins formed the nucleus of what had become one of the busiest and most important
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