Re: Blowing in the wind...

BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
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> On 22.11.2023 14.33, Merlyne wrote:
>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
>> news:[email protected]: 
>> 
>>> On 08.11.2023 14.11, Merlyne wrote:
>>>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
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>>>>
>>>>> On 25.10.2023 16.26, Merlyne wrote:
>>>>>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So we had a storm with an spring flood yesterday - one of those
>>>>>>> 100year events supposedly - with sea level up to 2m above
>>>>>>> normal. Pleasure boats and holiday homes being knocked about and
>>>>>>> lots of water damage in some areas, with several dikes and
>>>>>>> sluices breaking down (not around here thankfully).
>>>>>>> Also the storm ripped a ~150cm hole in the top of my roof,
>>>>>>> causing rainwater to drip from the ceiling in my bedroom in
>>>>>>> several places during the night. Once I discovered it a couple
>>>>>>> of buckets took care of most of that, but I have to retreat to
>>>>>>> the guest room to avoid the chinese water torture of plonk-plonk
>>>>>>> into the bucket. The indignity was shattering.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Oh wow!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The weather's been crazy here all summer.
>>>>>> I think we had a record number of tornados touch down.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A year ago May, we had a derecho storm, which I never heard of
>>>>>> before. We lost 30-70% of the tree canopy around the city.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I feel your pain. My basement flooded in April after a brutal
>>>>>> freezing rain storm. Dealing with the insurance company is a pain
>>>>>> in the butt. 
>>>>>
>>>>> I on-lined the insurance comp. right away and the accessor did
>>>>> call back on the monday, which is pretty good assuming mine wasn't
>>>>> the only claim he had to deal with. On the other hand he did
>>>>> mention that a few roof plates and some work probably didn't
>>>>> exceed the deductible (~€550). 
>>>>>
>>>>> So he referred me to a roof repairer whom I called right away.
>>>>> This guy affirmed that he could take the job and hinted that he
>>>>> may come by the same day to look at the damage. He didn't. He also
>>>>> didn't come the next monday when I contacted him.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, today (two weeks later) the roof repair man finally showed up.
>>>>> Only not the one I had called but someone from a different firm
>>>>> subcontracted by the first guy. (These are all single owner firms
>>>>> with a 2 or 3 workers.) This new guy took a look and determined
>>>>> that not only the missing ones but all the top bits of the roof
>>>>> was rotted through to the point of disintegration. So that roof
>>>>> now has a brand new top bit. Also too he did not think the rest of
>>>>> that part of the roof will last another year (or storm or heavy
>>>>> snowfall) so there's that. These are fibre cement pieces called
>>>>> (tm'ed) Eternit - ironically one might presume.
>>>>>
>>>>> Still waiting for the economic damage - and given the state of
>>>>> things I doubt I'll get any help from insurance.
>>>>> Meanwhile I still have to replace the wet bit of isolation mats -
>>>>> and find the puddle that is still feeding the slow drip in my
>>>>> bedroom. 
>>>>>
>>>>> Also I need to clean and return the tarp I borrowed from the
>>>>> neighbour. And the ladder.
>>>>>
>>>>> So how was your fortnight?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Uh...uneventful?
>>> Aren't you the lucky one. Meanwhile my chimney has started taking in
>>> water whenever it rains and depositing it along with whatever soot
>>> it dislodges on my scullery floor. Not the whole floor, just the
>>> little, hard-to-get-to bit in the corner beside the chimney.
>>> I've never had run-through chimney water before...
>>>
>> 
>> I had that happen a couple of years ago. Apparently the baffle at the
>> top of the chimney was warped or broken or something so when the rain
>> hit it at the right angle it dripped inside the house.
> 
> I don't have any baffles or caps on my chimney. I suspect the storm
> put so much water down it that there was standing water that didn't
> have time to evaporate (also because the there's no burning so no
> heating of the flute), so whenever any water got in it overflowed.
> 
> I did have the chimney sweep around recently for the mandatory yearly
> check. He brushed the gunk down off the flute but didn't do a damn
> thing about the wet mess on the bottom - his vacuum cleaner would get
> dirty or something, and apparently they no longer carry an ash shovel.
> [Wanker!] I did that myself after he left (I *do* have a shovel), and
> I haven't have sooty water on the floor since (he said with no regard
> for hybris). 
> 
Don't jinx yourself!

>>>> {We need the tarp for stealing steles}
>>> {We can't just use someone else's tarp for clandestine, and possibly
>>> morally dubious, activities. Also it's really dark most of the time
>>> now, so maybe a tarp won't be needed at all.}
>>>
>> {Hello darkness, my old friend}
> (Quite. The dark has always been a friend of stealthy stele stealers.)
[Unless it snows. Snow + Moon shine = call the police]