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On 29.11.2023 15.27, Merlyne wrote:
> BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:uju5dv$306be$1@dont-email.me: 
> 
>> On 22.11.2023 14.33, Merlyne wrote:
>>> BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> wrote in
>>> news:uje2g3$3vrc7$1@dont-email.me: 
>>>
>>>> On 08.11.2023 14.11, Merlyne wrote:
>>>>> BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>>> news:uibctg$j60l$1@dont-email.me: 
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 25.10.2023 16.26, Merlyne wrote:
>>>>>>> BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>>>>> news:uh0top$1rguh$1@dont-email.me: 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So we had a storm with an spring flood yesterday - one of those
>>>>>>>> 100year events supposedly - with sea level up to 2m above
>>>>>>>> normal. Pleasure boats and holiday homes being knocked about and
>>>>>>>> lots of water damage in some areas, with several dikes and
>>>>>>>> sluices breaking down (not around here thankfully).
>>>>>>>> Also the storm ripped a ~150cm hole in the top of my roof,
>>>>>>>> causing rainwater to drip from the ceiling in my bedroom in
>>>>>>>> several places during the night. Once I discovered it a couple
>>>>>>>> of buckets took care of most of that, but I have to retreat to
>>>>>>>> the guest room to avoid the chinese water torture of plonk-plonk
>>>>>>>> into the bucket. The indignity was shattering.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Oh wow!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The weather's been crazy here all summer.
>>>>>>> I think we had a record number of tornados touch down.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A year ago May, we had a derecho storm, which I never heard of
>>>>>>> before. We lost 30-70% of the tree canopy around the city.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I feel your pain. My basement flooded in April after a brutal
>>>>>>> freezing rain storm. Dealing with the insurance company is a pain
>>>>>>> in the butt. 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I on-lined the insurance comp. right away and the accessor did
>>>>>> call back on the monday, which is pretty good assuming mine wasn't
>>>>>> the only claim he had to deal with. On the other hand he did
>>>>>> mention that a few roof plates and some work probably didn't
>>>>>> exceed the deductible (~€550). 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So he referred me to a roof repairer whom I called right away.
>>>>>> This guy affirmed that he could take the job and hinted that he
>>>>>> may come by the same day to look at the damage. He didn't. He also
>>>>>> didn't come the next monday when I contacted him.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So, today (two weeks later) the roof repair man finally showed up.
>>>>>> Only not the one I had called but someone from a different firm
>>>>>> subcontracted by the first guy. (These are all single owner firms
>>>>>> with a 2 or 3 workers.) This new guy took a look and determined
>>>>>> that not only the missing ones but all the top bits of the roof
>>>>>> was rotted through to the point of disintegration. So that roof
>>>>>> now has a brand new top bit. Also too he did not think the rest of
>>>>>> that part of the roof will last another year (or storm or heavy
>>>>>> snowfall) so there's that. These are fibre cement pieces called
>>>>>> (tm'ed) Eternit - ironically one might presume.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Still waiting for the economic damage - and given the state of
>>>>>> things I doubt I'll get any help from insurance.
>>>>>> Meanwhile I still have to replace the wet bit of isolation mats -
>>>>>> and find the puddle that is still feeding the slow drip in my
>>>>>> bedroom. 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Also I need to clean and return the tarp I borrowed from the
>>>>>> neighbour. And the ladder.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So how was your fortnight?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Uh...uneventful?
>>>> Aren't you the lucky one. Meanwhile my chimney has started taking in
>>>> water whenever it rains and depositing it along with whatever soot
>>>> it dislodges on my scullery floor. Not the whole floor, just the
>>>> little, hard-to-get-to bit in the corner beside the chimney.
>>>> I've never had run-through chimney water before...
>>>>
>>>
>>> I had that happen a couple of years ago. Apparently the baffle at the
>>> top of the chimney was warped or broken or something so when the rain
>>> hit it at the right angle it dripped inside the house.
>>
>> I don't have any baffles or caps on my chimney. I suspect the storm
>> put so much water down it that there was standing water that didn't
>> have time to evaporate (also because the there's no burning so no
>> heating of the flute), so whenever any water got in it overflowed.
>>
>> I did have the chimney sweep around recently for the mandatory yearly
>> check. He brushed the gunk down off the flute but didn't do a damn
>> thing about the wet mess on the bottom - his vacuum cleaner would get
>> dirty or something, and apparently they no longer carry an ash shovel.
>> [Wanker!] I did that myself after he left (I *do* have a shovel), and
>> I haven't have sooty water on the floor since (he said with no regard
>> for hybris). 
>>
> Don't jinx yourself!
That's not a thing that happens. Everything bad that happens to me is
somebody else's fault. Anyway no more water, even with all the snow that
must have found it's way into the chimney...

>>>>> {We need the tarp for stealing steles}
>>>> {We can't just use someone else's tarp for clandestine, and possibly
>>>> morally dubious, activities. Also it's really dark most of the time
>>>> now, so maybe a tarp won't be needed at all.}
>>>>
>>> {Hello darkness, my old friend}
>> (Quite. The dark has always been a friend of stealthy stele stealers.)
> [Unless it snows. Snow + Moon shine = call the police]
% Speaking of... I've been technically snowed in for a few days, in the
sense that drifting snow (and frankly atrocious snow clearing) makes
biking all but impossible on the country road that takes me home (or
away as the case may be). %

-- 
BeH

" We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to
formulate insight is a play on words." - Niels Bohr

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  Re: Blowing in the wind... Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2023-10-25 14:26 +0000
    Re: Blowing in the wind... BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2023-11-06 19:56 +0100
      Re: Blowing in the wind... Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2023-11-08 13:11 +0000
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          Re: Blowing in the wind... Merlyne <kamilot3@aol.com> - 2023-11-22 13:33 +0000
            Re: Blowing in the wind... BeH <beh.on.usenet@gmail.com> - 2023-11-26 02:01 +0100
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