Re: this is insane
Posted by Chris in Tampa on 10/5/2024, 9:31 pm
Thanks to you both. We'll be safe. We might stay with family in Tennessee. My dad wants to stay closer to the area and we might. Depends on if we expect to be able to do much after. If we can maybe salvage stuff, we'd stay closer. If not, then might as well visit family. We didn't visit Tennessee this year, was waiting for either a storm we had to evacuate for or going to visit my great aunt there for her hundredth birthday next year. It's a long drive and my dad turns 84 in about a week. We just don't like making the approximately 12 hour drive there.

I didn't mention it earlier, but on Tuesday my dad was working outside pulling plumeria leaves off that were dead, due to salt water impacting them in the surge. He was going to rake them up and came up on a giant wasp nest full of wasps. He moved back fast and fell backward and hit his head. He seems to be okay. He scraped up his elbows so I guess he caught himself somewhat. Someone working on storm damage across the street watched him fall and called 911 and let me know as I was inside. Fire department checked him out but he didn't want to be transported. Everything seemed normal in the days after so we didn't go to urgent care. A neighbor is a nurse and cleaned the wounds on his head a bit too and then I did later too.

He wanted to take it easy for the rest of the month. Instead we got most of the boards up on windows and doors today. Need to screw the ones in pool area in. I will work on plastic and driveway pavers to make a almost guaranteed to be futile attempt at reducing the surge. I fought an inch pretty successfully in Helene. Another inch or had it stayed up longer and I would have failed. And I won't be there to fight it this time, so it's bot going to work. But I can say I tried. Interesting product that is sold out that a neighbor mentioned is something like a sealant you can use and can just pull it up later. Always wondered if something like that exists. Too late to get, but interesting for people in future who don't have too many openings maybe.

I guess in this storm it will be more putting stuff as high as we can and maybe the surge that gets in might not get some of it. Haven't decided best course of action yet for that. Plastic and pavers between glass doors and plywood where there is about a 6 inch gap or plastic and pavers actually inside the house against glass doors. Have to think about it. The gap is due to how the doors are structured and how we have plywood which will be up there pretty good.

As I told a neighbor though, this is it. No matter what happens, no more living here. Was going to sell as a tear down as we stopped fixing stuff after 2004 storms. Too low, no sense in fixing it. Someone would need to build higher. If there are people who still want to live on water after this.

Off to bed.

And how are we on Milton? I missed the I, J, K and L storms. Well, Kirk has rip current risk along many areas of Atlantic basin. But the others flew by. Sorry to all the Milton's out there, but that has to be the name to come here? That's like the worst name on this year's list.
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I'm boarding up - Chris in Tampa, 10/5/2024, 11:39 am
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