Cleaned out the garage Monday for wife's car to fit in there, damn undersized Florida garages, no length and no width, so it's a 2 car garage in name only...bastards....., wind is not all that bad so far....rainfall don'g bother me too much, blocked the gate to the uphill neighbors back yard with a cinder block so the yard can drain in a really heavy blast....I live on a hillside with some 30' of freeboard to creek at bottom of hill....get 30' of flooding in Florida and about 90% of the state is under water....serious....
got a power blip last night, so we have a radio and flashlights ready to go....
my hood has tall oak trees, water and pin oaks....I been after them pretty good to keep hazards down....most of the hood don't seem to care, but I hear plenty of saws running every spring, the worst trees are the pines, they come down all the time in wind storms.....
3 years ago I drove out I 10 to Houston for the Katrina releif effort, housing damage appraiser....it was not as easy as one would think, more interested in the paperwork than any actual damage assessment , the destruction I seen on that trip was :shocking::shocking::ill: to say the least, all along I 10 from Pensacola west was the contents of houses, parts of houses, fishing trawlers cars, utilities, shopping centers, kitchen sinks, bedsheets, mattresses, it was ALL strewn all over the center divider and hanging from trees, or what was left of trees and bushes on the north side of the road....which was maybe 20 miles from the coastline....one slab I saw on the way back was the size of my 1/4 acre lot.....not even a shitty TOILET left on it....not nuttin' honey, bald.....not even a sill plate....two other giant homes on the north side of the freeway were total lovely mansions, and partly shielded by the freeway bridge/abutment, so they were leaning over at maybe 30* off plumb....in other words, forgetaboutit....:shocking:
I never saw New Orleans....routed around it as I10 was not open over Lake Poncetrane....
another funny post coming about the motel....and living conditions....
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