Re: Blowing in the wind...

BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
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> On 29.11.2023 15.27, Merlyne wrote:
>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
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>> 
>>> On 22.11.2023 14.33, Merlyne wrote:
>>>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
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>>>>> 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!
> That's not a thing that happens. Everything bad that happens to me is
> somebody else's fault. Anyway no more water, even with all the snow
> that must have found it's way into the chimney...
> 
>>>>>> {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]
> % Speaking of... I've been technically snowed in for a few days, in
> the sense that drifting snow (and frankly atrocious snow clearing)
> makes biking all but impossible on the country road that takes me home
> (or away as the case may be). %
> 

West Virginia?

This is an El Nino year. So far it's rain which changes to freezing rain 
which changes to snow which melts. Rinse. Repeat.