On Wednesday, August 18, 2010 12:16:57 pm Mark Wendt did opine: > Anybody heard from Gene H. lately? He usually posts every day, and I > > >> haven't seen one of his posts in a while. Pinging Gene - if'n yer > >> out there, pipe up... > >> > >> Mark > > > > You rang? > > > > I have been busier than that famous one legged man in an ass kicking > > contest, trying to fix all the damages to the place that a 100+ mph > > wind did back on June 24th. We _had_ 5 pretty mature trees, now only > > 2, some roof damages, all the gutters, a section of prrivacy fence > > and a neighbors passing steel yard shed left me with a gash in the > > siding and a leaf blower no one is claiming. I contracted the roof > > and gutters, and elected to do the fence& siding myself, which was > > real simple. The damaged piece is only 8" wide, a filler piece in > > vertical siding, and the neighbors save me that same piece off their > > house as they are doing some remodeling and will replace thiers with > > vinyl. I put it in DBY, and now need to see if I can locate a > > leftover can of that paint& nobody will be the wiser. > > > > Some pix, not all finished yet, at: > > > > <http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene/fence/> > > > > I need to take a few more pix& rerun jigl again. The opening is for > > a gate, and the missus wanted an arch, so I've been piddling with > > that for the last 10 days or so. Once thats up and waterproofed, > > then dual swinging gates are next, wide enough I can get the rider > > through. The old gate would let it by, but it needed greasing first. > > > > Keeps me out of the bars don'tcha know. > > Okay, good to hear from ya. Just got a bit worried because I usually > see you post here just about every day. Geez louise, 100+ mph wind? > > Mark
Yup. One of the neighbors down at the bottom of our street is a volunteer fireman, and has a recording anemometer in his back yard, which said 112 mph when it was uncovered. A black willow came down and covered it up, but it was not otherwise damaged. It came down the hill at the back (western end) of our little natural cul- de-sac, about 30-40 yeards wide, busting off mature trees 10-15 feet up in the air and generally followed a zig-zag track down the middle, jumped the west fork river and took about half the roof off the stockyards, totally demolished 3 houses on the other side of the river & generally left a trail of destruction clear to the top of the hill and kept going here and there for a good 8 or 10 miles on east. They won't call it a tornado cause it was more or less straight line winds, but 3 people did report seeing a funnel cloud over on the east side of the river. I faired better than most, I got to keep 2 of the 5 trees we had, a 25 year old, 60 foot pin oak, and one of 4 30 year old 50 foot pines. They were slightly damaged, but will likely recover. On down the block, several trees of similar size just tipped their root balls out of the ground, and TBT, I am amazed that pin oak, whose wood is about rockwell 55, didn't do exactly that. One of my pines wound up on the next door neighbors roof, and a steel yard building catty-wumpus across my back fence & beyond the shop buiilding was picked up right off its flooring and dumped in the area above & behind the neighbors carport on the other side of me. and did it without breaking through an 8 foot privacy fence less than 4 feet from where it stood. I lost a shadowbox end of the back deck, a strip of siding was gashed, and some shingles left plus there was evidence that something had slid the length of my roof, which may have been that yard building. But from there to where it landed is a straight line through the one pine tree that survived, damaged 15 feet up, some limbs were broken. I have been told by the neighbors that when I get done with the fencing and such, next is going to be a cold bar and some park benches under that pin oak, cause I have the only shade tree left on our side of the block. And it just might happen yet, its a heck of a good place to have a neighborhood meeting over a cold one. ;-) We have BIG piles of stuff being burnt daily yet as folks are cleaning up. So we have lots of smoke & ash in the air & will have the rest of the summer I expect. The hill on the far side of Butchers Lane probably has 200 cords of firewood down on it, but the landowner reposted it. That includes several nice cherry trees I could use, but he thinks its worth $10/bdft laying there, so it will be just firewood next year. He did manage to sell a walnut log I would have liked, about 30" thick, but apparently the cherry (its 14 to 18" thick) is gonna lay there and check full length. Sad. A waste of some of mother natures better stuff. Sigh... -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The Microsoft Motto: "We're the leaders, wait for us!" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
