Good afternoon to all-
Fellers, I find your blizzard advice to be very helpful- I don’t expect to ever need to use this advice, but I have it now.
Down here when hurricanes come, it’s difficult. Each storm is different, and each storm does different things. Our most recent hurricane- two years ago Hurricane Sally- was not a particularly strong storm, but it just sat on us for two full days- rained hard, hard, hard and blew. We’re about 30 miles from the coast, but we still had plenty of 100+ mph winds for two days. when it rains like this down here, the ground- there’s nothing in the ground here but clay and sand- no rocks of any kind- gets saturated with rain and the trees don’t have anything to anchor them. So they come down. We lost several outbuildings, eight kayaks, lots of fishing gear, fencing and other stuff. Power was out for a week or so.
It was interesting to sit by a window and watch the neighbor’s roof blow away.
By the way, according to our enlightened law down here, when a storm hits, whatever damage happens to your house or property, it’s your loss. Even if the neighbor’s tree falls on your house, it’s your loss- the neighbor has no responsibility.
Just about the worst storm damage I’ve had to deal with- I was a teacher at a public school that was built over 100 years ago. A storm took the roof off the school and filled up my classroom with a couple of feet of water. After the storm left, the sun came out and it got hot, hot, not.
Fellers, you ain’t lived nor smelled until you get to smell 100 years of kids and everything they do in a classroom cooked up for a week or so in hot Gulf Coast sun.
It would gag a maggot, let me tell you.
Anyway, thanks for your information, and I hope we don’t have to deal with a storm, and I hope you don’t have to deal with a blizzard.
Ed
Avoid that and you are 95% good to go.
Avoid that and you are 95% good to go.
