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Another gorgeous summer day, bright sunshine and a high of 85°. Only supposed to get up to 79° tomorrow. Taking advantage of the break in the heat I went out for another motorcycle ride this afternoon for about 2-hours. I'm pretty sure it's the first time I've rode my motorcycles on back-to-back days this summer.
The weather is supposed to stay in the mid-80's and essentially no chance of rain thru the weekend. I'm going to that big cruise-in at the Church, that I've posted pics of several times, on Friday evening, and the one at the Frozen Custard place by my house on Saturday evening. Really looking forward to a fun weekend getting the car out.
Returned from Texas. Spent most of the time working or sleeping. My colleagues and I ate well in the evenings and walked around downtown. We went on Monday night to the Pearl Brewery area which is very hipstered now. I ate the shrimp boil in the picture, ate all the shrimp and sausages and corn and all but three pieces of potato; damn near did me in. Walked back along the river and saw the underpass in the pictures. The dam is because the river goes lower deliberately on the River Walk to be below the street level enough for another story. Lots of people run and bike. I saw many single pretty women alone running at night; they must think it is safer than I do.
Last night, finished at the plant, ate at the best Mexican joint in town, and walked by the Alamo after hours. I did not intend for this, but my hotel is behind Mr. Crockett's head.
Returned today and cleaned up most of the mess in the basement. Had some water damage to things sitting in the puddle for a week. AC guy coming tomorrow. Beat the hell out of my shop vac and now have fans running to dry it.
Returned from Texas. Spent most of the time working or sleeping. My colleagues and I ate well in the evenings and walked around downtown.
John - Thanks for posting all the pics. Sounds like you were plenty busy with work $hit, but still managed to see some major sites and have a nice time, good for you! I've always wanted to visit there, but haven't made it yet. That Shrimp Boil looks delicious!!
I must have missed something, what happened that you came home to water in your basement, that sucks?
Storm surge ~3’ - 4’ this AM. Winds -35mph - 40mph steady. Several large bursts ~75mph - 85mph. Lots of limbs down in yard, I see a couple shingle tabs on the ground. Hopefully not much more. The weakened eye wall is just offshore about 50 miles or so. Should pass next 8-10 hrs.
Storm surge ~3’ - 4’ this AM. Winds -35mph - 40mph steady. Several large bursts ~75mph - 85mph. Lots of limbs down in yard, I see a couple shingle tabs on the ground. Hopefully not much more. The weakened eye wall is just offshore about 50 miles or so. Should pass next 8-10 hrs.
Don't reason with hurricane season, Norm. Keep your head down.
Chris, I believe the condensate tube is plugged on my AC.
John/Chris - I reckon I've been through ~30 hurricanes - which, honestly is nor a large of a number, very likely close to average for those who reside in hurricane prone states. A phenomena you prepare for & become accustomed. At least they're predicable - unlike tornadoes; and, actually less powerful than tornadoes.
It will take several days for the storm surge to recede. The Town of Beaufort resides ~9' above MSL. If you look up the elevation, like most things on the Internet, you'll find vastly varying degrees of discrepancies regarding its elevation. Many list the elevation as 3' - I think people don't know how to use the apostrophe or don't know how to convert metric. At any rate, my house is located between 6' - 9' above MSL. Listed in the 'C' zone for flooding. A zone = 0' - 3', B zone = 3' - 6', C zone = 6' - 9'.
I rode out a Cat 3 one year. Takes a lot of preparation & I'm too old to make the necessary preparations any longer. If there's a Cat 3 forecast, I'm out of here. Not to mention, I tossed out all my hurricane shutters this year - I made them ~20 years ago - nothing fancy, just custom made pieces of plywood for all the windows. I do have storm windows throughout the house, and that assists in staving off the largest of flying pieces of limbs, furniture, debris, etc. should I take a direct hit from something of that nature. I'll tell ya, if you have a broken window in a hurricane, any rain will be blowing directly sideways into your house in a heartbeat.
Norm - Glad it wasn't any worse than it was! I hope you don't have too much clean-up.
John - Gotcha, thanks for the explanation. Same as with Norm, I hope your clean-up is not too extensive.
It is almost completely dry now. I had some water damage to the old kitchen cabinets sitting on the floor that are to be hung from the main I beam of the house for storage in some future project, and I think I will pitch a wet 10/22 box from the last one I bought. Condensate drain was well and truly clogged. The tech, actually the service manager, snaked through both ends. He was not satisfied, sawed the pipe, put a shop vac on it, and sucked it out. Put a coupling on it, and now I know how to do that.
He cleaned the outside unit and commented it was very clean meaning low use. The compressor then randomly cut off. The defrost board was bad and I had been going along with it cycling on that as well as the temp setting. He had no board in the van, so he bypassed it and I have no heat, currently, but I have nice AC and a draining condensate. He is ordering a board, and I will pay for all of it then, the board, install, and the service call.
The unit is 15 years old. I had cracked the filter housing retention latch, but duct tape, appropriately enough, holds it together. He recommends I do not replace the filter housing, but, replace the unit here in a few years in some nice spring month.
John/Chris - I reckon I've been through ~30 hurricanes - which, honestly is nor a large of a number, very likely close to average for those who reside in hurricane prone states. A phenomena you prepare for & become accustomed. At least they're predicable - unlike tornadoes; and, actually less powerful than tornadoes.
It will take several days for the storm surge to recede. The Town of Beaufort resides ~9' above MSL. If you look up the elevation, like most things on the Internet, you'll find vastly varying degrees of discrepancies regarding its elevation. Many list the elevation as 3' - I think people don't know how to use the apostrophe or don't know how to convert metric. At any rate, my house is located between 6' - 9' above MSL. Listed in the 'C' zone for flooding. A zone = 0' - 3', B zone = 3' - 6', C zone = 6' - 9'.
I rode out a Cat 3 one year. Takes a lot of preparation & I'm too old to make the necessary preparations any longer. If there's a Cat 3 forecast, I'm out of here. Not to mention, I tossed out all my hurricane shutters this year - I made them ~20 years ago - nothing fancy, just custom made pieces of plywood for all the windows. I do have storm windows throughout the house, and that assists in staving off the largest of flying pieces of limbs, furniture, debris, etc. should I take a direct hit from something of that nature. I'll tell ya, if you have a broken window in a hurricane, any rain will be blowing directly sideways into your house in a heartbeat.
My old man hangs plyboard over the big windows. We've ridden out cat 1s. Orlando and Mt. Dora are too far inland for a coastal level rogering.
Yikes. Of course, as w/ any hurricane much depends on which vector (quadrant) you're taking the beating & the duration of the beating, but anyway you look at it a Cat 1 sounds ugly.
The compressor then randomly cut off. The defrost board was bad and I had been going along with it cycling on that as well as the temp setting. He had no board in the van, so he bypassed it and I have no heat, currently, but I have nice AC and a draining condensate. He is ordering a board, and I will pay for all of it then, the board, install, and the service call.
My board was fine, but my compressor began a tell-tale sign of cycling last year. I elected to replace the compressor as opposed to buying a new Combination Heat Pump. Compress = $1650 - much less expensive than a new Heat Pump & the Heat Pump works great with reduced utility bill.
Looks like three shingle tabs are torn off. Went into attic to assess any water infiltration, appears one area is extremely slightly dampened - 4"x4" area of roof insulation. Will need to head roof top in the next several days. Don't much care to be crawling up ladders any longer - but, you have to do what you have to do.
Looks like three shingle tabs are torn off. Went into attic to assess any water infiltration, appears one area is extremely slightly dampened - 4"x4" area of roof insulation. Will need to head roof top in the next several days. Don't much care to be crawling up ladders any longer - but, you have to do what you have to do.
Looks like three shingle tabs are torn off. Went into attic to assess any water infiltration, appears one area is extremely slightly dampened - 4"x4" area of roof insulation. Will need to head roof top in the next several days. Don't much care to be crawling up ladders any longer - but, you have to do what you have to do.
Norm get a contractor lined up to do the inspection.(Insurance may need an inspection anyway) If nothing else you will have someone there with you if you do decide to crawl up there. Just my mother hen 2cents...
Norm get a contractor lined up to do the inspection.(Insurance may need an inspection anyway) If nothing else you will have someone there with you if you do decide to crawl up there. Just my mother hen 2cents...
Keith - Thanks for the suggestion and well-thought advice. It isn't that bad, just enough to be an annoyance. I still have plenty of scaffolding to up there, just makes it more difficult - but far more stable than a ladder - I have a couple long ladders which are very sturdy and stable. Just more cumbersome since the one more stable ladder weighs 100 lbs. Scaffolding is easier to maneuver but time consuming to erect. Oh well. I'm in no hurry.
John, a nice looking area that you were in. The platter of food looks great. Greg, your truck is sweet. Very nice. My co worker did not go to South Carolina after all, he had someone that he called that gave him an all clear on the weather, no damage of any kind near the condos.
Worked on siding the majority of the day. Working w/ eyes full of sawdust isn't fun. No matter what glasses I have some gets through. I have a set of eyeball goggles but the strap broke. They're quite fashionable - swimmer's goggles or welding goggles. They do keep the dust out, but I was too lazy to create a new strap and used my Dewalt safety goggles, instead.
I didn't cook but I did boil up three pieces of fresh corn on the cob & a dozen jumbo shrimp (Old Bay in vinegar). Yum yum....yum yum.
Norm - Sounds like you had a full day. The shrimp sound good. I prefer them breaded with some cocktail sauce but I'll take em anyway I can get em!
I went to the big cruise-in at the large Church last night. The weather was so nice it filled up early and they were making cars wait to get in until spaces opened up. There had to be easily +400-cars. This afternoon and evening I went to the cruise-in at the DQ in DeSoto, another very good turnout, it was packed. I didn't take pics at either event because I feel like I've worn out my welcome posting pics, not too many folks checking them out, so why bother.
Wondering how Jim's maiden voyage of the pontoon went. Hope they faired well!
Spent the day taking measurements at the plant. We have a machine which is a centering device for the cars to put them right in the same spot as they drive on it. In this one, we aim the headlights, and dial in the front and rear corner sensors. To get data on this equipment, we stage a special version of the sensor on a tripod with a servo table that moves it left and right and up and down for an array of readings. The hard part is positioning the tripod on diamond plate and car rollers to get the sensor to the millimeter in the right spot and height and all three angles of rotation. It really sucks. Then you run the program. We got the hard stuff done today and should be done around lunch tomorrow. Some of the equipment didn't work, and, even though we were promised it would work when they sent it with the guy that came, it's still going to be my fault we didn't get that data.
My list of managers that do not deserve an ***-beating shrinks daily.
As luck would have it, the day I bought the boat a perfect K 5 ( right color condition etc) comes up for sale. Only 15 k more than the last one that I let get away. I beginning to think smoking crack goes along with flipping K 5's . Any way it tells me that they are out there, I just need to be patient and wait for what I want at a reasonable price
Jim - Several weeks ago I spotted a nice looking K-5 for sale in New Bern, NC on my way to play golf & thought of your quest for the perfect K-5. On my way home from golf I thought to stop but it wasn't the exact color you were after. This one was Dark Green (didn't appear to be Hunter Green) w/ a cream white top. It was in decent shape from the exterior. It was sitting at the edge of an expansive piece of agricultural property line.
Kinda/Sorta rounding the corner on this batch of North-Side facing R&R wood siding. Clean-up (scrape) some paint on underside side (lap) of boards, then prime. I might get to caulking today. Hell, I might even decide to erect a couple scaffold sections to get on the roof. I've decided it's too risky climbing up/down ladders any longer.
