Good morning!!!!

   / Good morning!!!! #81,581  
72°F and only .04 inches rain. Olivia getting nearer but perhaps we get the lesser, southern side as it appears more centered on Maui.

You guys in Florence path stay aware

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day
 
   / Good morning!!!! #81,582  
Even Yankees fans? :D

Seriously, that’s very gracious of you.:thumbsup:

I'll have to rethink the Yanks part of the equation! :laughing:

We are blessed. Only right to share that blessing if at all possible! :thumbsup:
 
   / Good morning!!!! #81,583  
Toppop must have meant the NY Yankees...:D

Electrician no showed me this morning though hours later found a note on the back of my golf cart, have no idea when he came.
Then roofer came, super nice guy, young, honest, 67 squares of shingles, 200 bucks a square installed including materials.
How does that price sound to others?

most importantly I am on his list/cue and he said just call him if needed and he would tarp my damaged roof if needed.
Yes....

I'm off to go rescue my loaned mower at the River, than back to finish mowing.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #81,584  
Toppop must have meant the NY Yankees...:D

Electrician no showed me this morning though hours later found a note on the back of my golf cart, have no idea when he came.
Then roofer came, super nice guy, young, honest, 67 squares of shingles, 200 bucks a square installed including materials.
How does that price sound to others?

most importantly I am on his list/cue and he said just call him if needed and he would tarp my damaged roof if needed.
Yes....

I'm off to go rescue my loaned mower at the River, than back to finish mowing.

Lot depends on shingles being put on. Removal and haul away included. Ice and water in all valleys and edges. Ridge vents and other new vents.
I am not a expert. But this type of info should be in any quote. Shingles here go from $50 to $150 a square for shingles only.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #81,585  
thanks Ron. Everything was included, I was eighth person to do exact same thing so he has a lot of estimates before me, but that was his ballpark.
He said the cheap insurance shingles are 15 bucks a square, good stuff 30 (GAF slateline) plus install, so his materials costs were reasonable.
I clearly don't want the 15 dollar stuff. First let's see if it blows off.

came in after finishing mowing and putting grapple on Kubota plus taking off mower and putting rear weight box on. Tractor filled with fuel, all bungie cords in operation, trailer tied to 6x6's, nothing more to do. Picked up riding mower at River, brought it home, put away, lot of running around. Nice to sit down in a/c, thunderstorms grumbling outside.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #81,586  
Michael nice to have you here be safe you may get a lot of rain too

Drew we got 50 roof about 225 per square very nice copper valleys etc
 
   / Good morning!!!! #81,587  
Michael nice to have you here be safe you may get a lot of rain too

Drew we got 50 roof about 225 per square very nice copper valleys etc

thanks. I figured in that price range, just amazed so many squares, big garage roof added a lot apparently, my house is long and somewhat narrow and very inefficient in many ways. The upstairs where my office is and the second guest bedroom is gets too hot in the summer, wanted to add insulation, asked about insulated matting under shingles, that seemed to get me a blank stare. I know you can add insulation under siding, but other than membrane, nothing else?

This morning in Lowes I had a nice experience with two guys discussing which of several fasteners to use, and it was clear
they were pros. So I nicely asked about the right nail to hold tarps down, as I had a box of standard roofing nails with the big flat heads, and they
said there was something better, the ones with the plastic caps on them which are about 50 percent wider diameter. And very lightweight.
So I bought both, figuring I might need to use one and give/loan the other away.
But these guys just launched into a helpful let me show you. Almost like a tv commercial.

Of course it might have been because I quietly excused myself and asked them if they were pros.
heh heh heh you stroke the ego a little, like watering a flower, and all kinds of nice things can happen.
Well, yes we are actually, and let me show you something that might work even better.
I wonder if they were mfg reps.

what a long day. So many things to remember. I look out the back window and see things I've missed but have no energy left, will go on the morning list. I did remember to turn off the propane to the wheeled but permanently plumbed gas grill but now I need to strap it down. On the morning list.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #81,588  
My brother lives about 5 miles north of Elizabeth City, I talked to him today, he’s worried about wind damage there too.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #81,589  
Someone already mentioned usind the nails with plastic discs for holding tarps.

Tonight i got 3 cans diesel and 2 cans of gas. Filled both tractors with 2 of the diesel cans, put one of the 5 gal cans gas in another tall, narrow can that is a pain to haul, freeing up the can for another fill. Right now i got about 18 gal of gas in cans, and will get more.
I have never prepared this much for a storm before. Last i saw, we are in the 4-6 inches of rain band,
 
   / Good morning!!!! #81,590  
Good evening all. 69F this morning, overcast, calm wind. Wind picked up from the east, periods of light drizzle, and a high temp of 80F. Got about .05 inch of rain, slowed the start of bike ride because of wet roads. Did hit some drizzle while riding. Had to take the dog to the vet, has **** gland issues and ulcers on the ****. Get to apply creme to it, hope it helps :eek: No nap 2 days in a row, gotta fix that ;).
Good to hear about the prep going on for the hurricane.
RNG thanks for the heads up about Air Gig.
prayers for all.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #81,591  
When we got 25" over a couple/few days last year during Harvey, I was glad I lived on a bit of a hill. We have 2 tributaries on our place and they flowed like crazy and then at peak rain periods, they were even higher. I just kept saying, I feel sorry for those downstream.....which was the big flooding of Lagrange Texas.

Drew, does your place drain well during catastrophic rains?

True story....about the wind.

2003, Claudette was supposed to hit Texas as a TS. It ended up growing up to 100 mph gusts in a vert short time, just before it came onto land at Port O'connor. My buddy lives on the coastal flatland about 30 miles inland and has a 50x150 barn. The barn has two 12' wide by 15' tall overhead doors on one end. He saw the wind starting to bow them. As an able bodied strong 40 year old, he told me "Getting over and back to the barn in the wind was the hardest thing he's ever done." He said he was leaning over so far, he used his hands to help claw and grip on the grass to crawl the 100 feet to the barn with a cross wind. Once inside the man door, he was scared to death of the overhead doors breaking inward. He decided to park his Clarke forklift against the first one. Just as he got it shored up against the door, the other door busted inward, broke one of it's cables, and was flying around held on by one cable. Yes, a few hundred pound door slinging around on it's cable. He had to jump back behind the protective ROPS of the forklift and wait it out until the cable broke. He said the springs unwinding, wind, and cable snapping sounded like a war zone. He wished he'd parked something else heavy to shore it up before the storm. His barn ended up holding up fairly well other than that. But Harvey pulled a couple of roof panels off and indented the windward side of all the R panel on one side.

I know that rain at 55mph is almost totally horizontal rain as far as perspective goes.

You guys prepare.
Prayers.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #81,592  
75 here today currently 65. Clear and sunny for a few days.

Lots of hay being cut today. Rain chances come back Sunday/Monday. New path is showing Florence not turning east of Appalachian mountains but coming west to the Mississippi River before turning back northeast.

I remember Ike in 2005. Made it all the way to Kentucky and still had hurricane force winds. Did lots of damage. Mainly because buildings here are designed for that wind but only for a few minutes not hours.

You guys on the coast be safe. Seems like most are preparing fairly well.

One thing I haven’t seen mentioned is tape. Any kind really. Good duck tape or masking tape. Even packaging tape. If a window is taped in a X or star pattern and it breaks. There is a high chance that it will stay in place and not shatter. Of course functional storm shutters are better.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #81,593  
2018-09-12, 0323

62 right now...high in the low 70's...pretty much a repeat of yesterday, but no rain in the forecast today.

Sounds like most of you Southerners are prepping pretty good for Florence....I wish you all well in the coming days!
 
   / Good morning!!!! #81,594  
69 outside this AM. Heading to lower 80's today. More rain. Ground is saturated. Grass is crazy high. Lawn will have to be cut for hay.
Hope all have a good day. Be safe.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #81,595  
Good morning all, 64 going to 77 with am fog and 30% chance of showers. Got a few things to do, little things getting ready for the storm. Pool is full so I need to siphon that down a bit and fix a loose fence panel before it blows away. We are pretty well set here, on a hill but still have the wind blocked some and no big trees to fall on the house.

Drew & David, prayers sent for your safety and that your home and property will be protected.

Prayers for protection and healing for all, have a great day. Ed
 
   / Good morning!!!! #81,596  
68 degrees this morning over 4in of rain last night unreal lots of flooding about
 
   / Good morning!!!! #81,598  
69 going to 85.

Michael, sounds like the hurricane may be headed your way now. Joe Bastardi has been predicting this path the last day or two. We are Orioles fans, so obviously having a sad summer of baseball.

Got no rain here yesterday, which was good since I spent 9 hours digging the French drain trench and hauling dirt/clay. Got one section finished with the pipe and gravel I had on hand. Still have about 55 feet to go, so will go to the quarry when I get back from my county meeting. Every muscle is sore.
 

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