Winter Storm 2008

Dec 19, 2008 09:08

Hopefully this was as bad as it gets.  I have video and pictures of the leaks.  I will post them at some point.

So I woke up about midnight with a dream about waterfalls, and chinese water torture, only to find that the Great Hall had become a waterpark.

The Great Hall is not really equipped to handle large amounts of water so this concerned me quite ( Read more... )

winter, wtf?, venting, weather, home repair

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dqg_neal December 19 2008, 16:54:24 UTC
Did you ever figure out what the loud boom was?

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vediskoerner December 19 2008, 17:21:53 UTC
Yeah, the large boom was the tree in our backyard splitting in two and falling to the ground.

Two more trees have gone the same way sense then.

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dqg_neal December 19 2008, 18:47:13 UTC
Dang.. thats some nasty storm you have going there.

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vediskoerner December 19 2008, 19:10:19 UTC
Oh the storm is over, it's just that everything is covered with a good inch of ice, and it's weighing the trees down to the point of breaking.

So far we have lost at least three trees, with damage to most all of them.

We have been talking about landscaping, I guess this next year is the year for it!

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ext_3674 December 19 2008, 20:10:49 UTC
Ugh. That with a new roof? I would hope they fix it under warranty (and repair any interior damage) or you should complain to someone who can do something about their license..
I hope nothing very special or irreplaceable was destroyed by the water.

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vediskoerner December 21 2008, 16:05:28 UTC
Luckily, nothing that we know of (besides the walls) were damaged and even that was minimal, that we can tell.

But yes, something will be done.

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massagediva December 19 2008, 23:14:56 UTC
If the weather was that bad, I doubt if many clients came in!

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