Red Ring Tupperware Party, Autumnal Equinoctal Edition (24)

Chet wrote in post #17928140
Bummer. Though I do love watching a good storm develop and play out. Take some pictures and stay safe.

When I lived in Clovis NM, I loved sitting under the carport watching the lightning storms. We got some doozies. Unfortunately, I wasn't really into photography at the time. We don't get squat here, as far as decent storms go.

Chet wrote in post #17928155
Rumor has it the call originated from the school district administration offices that house the expelled students. It's interesting the school district is required to babysit the students removed from their schools.

!! I've never heard of that. So the school district has to provide free babysitting for delinquents. That's awesome.

Chet wrote in post #17928140
Bummer. Though I do love watching a good storm develop and play out. Take some pictures and stay safe.

Storm is gone and not very photogenic. All gray and when the storm front rolled in it just turned black.

So my wife and I got home late last night from spending most of the weekend with the PQ and her husband to find that an upstairs toilet decided to break and drench the floor upstairs and run through the floor and ceiling downstairs and pretty much ruin a bedroom and bathroom downstairs.

It was not a very good night.

One bright spot was that the son of some close friends was in the area and was able to come over to help clear out one of the rooms so that the water abatement people could do their job. He's an EMT and was concerned about my blood pressure, which was quite high last night. He gave strict orders that I was to not lift or move anything and was ordered to bed around 3am. My poor wife didn't get to bed until after 7am.

I've never had to deal with water damage, so this is a whole new area of stress. The water abatement company wants more stuff moved around downstairs (bookshelf, old organ and a piano) and there is not physically room on our first floor to hold any more, unless someone invents a levitating platform in the next day or so. We're not in a terribly good mood.

I can still use the clothes washer and dryer for the time being (the room they are in also suffered water damage), so I'm trying to wash the clothing that got saturated from the leak. One of our friends from church came over and grabbed a bunch of bags of wet clothing. I'm glad for that. Now I only have about 10 more loads to go here.

When I lived in Illinois, our basement would flood at least once a year. I just figured it was a good way to wash the floor.

I'll bet that smelled wonderful!

JSolie wrote in post #17928874
I'll bet that smelled wonderful!

No smell, it's just rain water.

That's some nasty flooding you got there. I suppose you learn to keep boxes and water damageable items off the ground.

Daughter just called. 3rd day in a row the H.S. is being evacuated. Students are being removed from campus and meeting at a middle school a block up from the H.S. This is getting old.

Freakin' inmates are really getting on my nerves today

LV Moose wrote in post #17929365
Freakin' inmates are really getting on my nerves today

Go Captain Hadley on them.

Chet wrote in post #17929264
That's some nasty flooding you got there. I suppose you learn to keep boxes and water damageable items off the ground.

Yup, built lots of shelving to keep things off of the floor. Living 100 feet from a lake and with power lines more fragile than spun sugar, at least once a year during a storm we would lose power killing the two sump pumps.

gjl711 wrote in post #17929410
Go Captain Hadley on them.

Hadley didn't have to worry about cameras everywhere. Or a soft-on-criminals public.

LV Moose wrote in post #17929420
Hadley didn't have to worry about cameras everywhere. Or a soft-on-criminals public.

Whatever happened to punishment, can't be doing with all this modern day rehabilitation cr*p?

gjl711 wrote in post #17929410
Go Captain Hadley on them.

winner winner chicken dinner!