• Got the Contributing Memberships stuff finally worked out and made up a thread as a sort of "How-To" to help people figure out how to participate. So if you need help figuring it out, here's the thread you need to take a look at -> http://www.corvetteflorida.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3581 Thank you, everyone! Rich Z.

Rain today

I think we are going to get a good soaking today. Got 0.40" so far, and radar is showing storms just training through likely the rest of the day.

I might have to crank up the mosquito magnets pretty soon.
 
We got 0.98" of rain today. Might be more before midnight.

So far for the month of April we have gotten 2.54" of rain, and for the year so far 20.87".

I am surprised that mosquitoes haven't been bad. Not that I am complaining!

But yellow fly season is coming up, and that really is no fun at all. Of course, since Connie and I have been knocking them out with the bug zappers, it has actually gotten to be sort of a game with them. I think we must have made a substantial dent in the population since we discovered these toys. :hehehe:

It is almost worth the bites from the ones that get through to us.

Anyway, looks like it might be Wednesday before we see sunlight again. Might as well put the trickle charger back on the vette. The road is pretty sloppy looking, so no chance I'll be taking the car out any time soon.
 
Maybe so. We got 0.62" more rain since midnight. We likely will get a few more showers moving through today.
 
We got 0.55" more rain today after my last post, so a total of 1.17" today. I think the rain is over with for a while. Monday is supposed to be sunny and dry, so maybe Connie and I can get some work done outside.
 
I was told they had bad weather up here about a week and a half ago. One of my cousins checked on the new house for me the day after and she sent a picture of a tree limb on the roof and a wooden cabinet in the carport got blown over on the V! I got home and went up on the roof to remove the limb and find it put a hole about three inches through the roof! And the Caddy suffered minor body damage to the passenger side window trim and paint. Oh well, could have been worse. I fixed the roof. I was gonna get the V repainted anyway. That cabinet weighs about 200 pounds! Wow! :eek:
 
Damn! Must have been pretty strong winds!

Speaking of roofs, I discovered that I need to replace the roof on my house. What I thought was just a leak at the seam between the house roof and the roof on the side porch is more serious. I thought that the caulking had lifted up at the seam and that was what I needed to fix. But apparently leaves from the overhanging live oak had been backing up the water when it rains heavily and had rusted out the section of the house roof. Something I should have checked on long ago. It's a metal roof and when I ran the drone above it to do a closeup inspection, I see a LOT of rust spots. Many of the screws holding the metal to the decking are rusted as well as the metal around those screws. I had hoped I could get by with just having that one section repaired, but the roof is 30 years old, and it obviously has other issues that will potentially cause more problems sooner rather than later.

So we are planning on getting a "standing seam" metal roof to replace this old one. Going to cost a chunk of change.

Also talking to tree specialists about having that live oak taken down. That isn't going to be cheap, neither.

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Yeah, I was pretty surprised at the cost.

We have been pricing a standing seam (unexposed fasteners) metal roof and best price we have gotten is right around $24K. Had one company try to do a bait and switch on us that luckily we caught.

All our pretty busy, apparently. We will have to wait two months before the actual install.

As for rain, we got 0.55" last night and today. We've actually been hoping for NO rain until we get the roof fixed. I did some patching with duct tape and caulk, but need to do some more work over the weekend. Still getting a small leak I want to patch up until the actual roof replacement can take place.

May tends to be the dry season around here, but knowing Murphy's Law, we will probably get weekly deluges and one or more tropical systems move in during June.
 
Lumber prices are stupidly high! Up 237% over last year they tell me. Fortunately the new house got a new roof in 2018 due to the hurricane. No one really ever expected one to reach all the way up into Georgia but looking on Google Maps you can see blue tarps everywhere! Anyway, we're replacing the windows (all 47 of them) using Window World to the tune of just under $24K. They were less than most others and have a true lifetime transferable warranty. Lots of renovations in our future. But that first step is painful.
 
Yeah, I believe the USA may be on the threshold of going into hyperinflation. We may be in for a very rocky road as our money becomes pretty much worthless and worth little more than being used as wall paper.

The government just cannot keep on printing up money with wild abandon without serious repercussions.
 
Personally, I don't know which thought is worse: (1) That there are enough people in this country dumb enough to vote for the pie in the sky socialist future the democrats are dangling on a hook, or (2) that the election was rigged and the fact that we have had our noses rubbed into the reality that we have absolutely NO say in our country any longer.

Either way, we have a very ugly road ahead of us.
 
Rich Z said:
Personally, I don't know which thought is worse: (1) That there are enough people in this country dumb enough to vote for the pie in the sky socialist future the democrats are dangling on a hook, or (2) that the election was rigged and the fact that we have had our noses rubbed into the reality that we have absolutely NO say in our country any longer.

Either way, we have a very ugly road ahead of us.
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True. So I just bought two Century Arms VSKA AK-47's and another 640 rounds.
 
Sure would like to go to a gunshow sometime soon. Not that I need anything, but heck no telling what might follow me home. :hehehe:
 
0.74" of rain today.

Spent all day yesterday trying to patch some leaks in the roof where it connects with the roof over top of the side porch (in the process of contracting to get a new roof installed, but that will be two months out), only to find out that I wasn't completely successful. :banghead:

So I was looking forward to the rain to test my handiwork, but REALLY disappointed to find my workmanship not up to the task.
 
0.52" of rain today. Just to rub in the fact that my roof is still leaking.
 
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