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That's probably busted heat trap. Source: Have had this happen on water heaters on properties I manage. You can get new heat traps at Lowes or home depot. They're basically one way valves, but the gist of it is, they stop your hot water from getting into your cold water inlet

Alternatively, it could be a failed fixture

That's amazing

She was South of the Colorado Trail Bridge. That's a very densely forested area, and the railway veers away from the river a little bit. She's damn lucky someone saw her. People move around a lot on that train.

That's the Durango and Silverton. They're a slow-moving tourist train, and they often drop off adventurers. The Upper Animas River which she was on the other side of, is fast and lethal. If she had tried to cross it with broken limbs, she would have died.

The danger for her was that someone would have written her off as just someone waving to the train.

Source: I've been on the same train ride. People -do- wave to the train from the side. It's a fun train ride. Highly recommend it. Also, take a 4x4 tour up into the mountains above Silverton while you're at it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hid9bDnSeok

Fireball Tool did an experiment on cutting techniques. If your discs are being quickly worn you may be cutting wrong

Is this one of those weird awareness stunts? This is ugly as hell,

It's transmitted by tick bites. Makes you allergic to a lot of meats, but Carrageenan--a seaweed extract used as an emulsifier, and for other things, is chemically similar enough to the molecule that activates the trigger (I'm explaining it badly), that it can trigger a reaction.

There is a nasty, transmittable food allergy called Alpha-Gal that can give you allergic reactions to some seaweed extracts like Carrageenan.