Buzzkill prevention thread {capture and kill the bad juju}

[too larry]

Hey guys. I know all my hurricane talk is a buzz kill. I'll try to do all my bitching and moaning in one place so as not to infect other threads. Feel free to post shit that is going bad in your life too. Don't let it bring you down.

I got into Mamma's old house the other night for the first time since the storm. Almost broke my damn leg walking a log across the debris field. That was before I discovered the window that looters had taken out. Made getting out much easier than getting in. This is looking from the dining room into the kitchen at a couple thousand board feet of oak. Daddy and I made the cabinets out of Red Cedar. I might try to save some of them.

 

[too larry]

The pictures are from towns all round me.

 

[cannabineer]

Speaking for myself ... I've been enjoying your posts. So unless I'm being insensitive (a real possibility) I would reassure you "you didn't have anything to worry about".

I'll ask this: which storm did this? I ought to remember, but well shit.

 

[too larry]

Speaking for myself ... I've been enjoying your posts. So unless I'm being insensitive (a real possibility) I would reassure you "you didn't have anything to worry about".

I'll ask this: which storm did this? I ought to remember, but well shit.

Thanks. It kills my buzz, so I just assumed. . . . .


Hurricane Micheal. Four months ago tomorrow.

 

[Singlemalt]

Hell Larry,I doubt anyone has begrudged your saga; it's life altering shit.

 

[too larry]

Hell Larry,I doubt anyone has begrudged your saga; it's life altering shit.

You are right about life altering. I hate to even think about how easy I had it. We lost timber and houses, but the loss that hurts the most is loss of privacy. From the house you couldn't see another house. Now there are about a dozen houses across the river that I can see the lights at night, and you can see the actual houses from Sister's place. It's like that in all directions. When I'm night hiking, in a mile long walk, I can see the lights from at least 25 houses.

 

[curious2garden]

I'm another vote for you were ok and not bringing me down.

 

[too larry]

I'm another vote for you were ok and not bringing me down.

Thanks. I was talking to someone the other day on another thread about wanting a place to put all my hurricane stuff, and Buzzkill Prevention came up as a possible thread name. I need to be recording my progress for posterity. {jk} I haven't done much lately. But I have doubled the size of my debris fire reflector down at the stealth camp. The lady who owns the land across the road hasn't bitched about it yet, but there is a good deal of my shed roofing in her trees. Another of the "round to-it" jobs.

 

[too larry]

One day last week I got back to my shooting house for the first time. From the side I had hopes. But it got got. I carried the seat from the bar stool through the pines almost a 1/4 mile. A lot of it with it on my head. Not easy going.

 

[too larry]

It ended up at the camp.

 

[Bareback]

Hey guys. I know all my hurricane talk is a buzz kill. I'll try to do all my bitching and moaning in one place so as not to infect other threads. Feel free to post shit that is going bad in your life too. Don't let it bring you down.

I got into Mamma's old house the other night for the first time since the storm. Almost broke my damn leg walking a log across the debris field. That was before I discovered the window that looters had taken out. Made getting out much easier than getting in. This is looking from the dining room into the kitchen at a couple thousand board feet of oak. Daddy and I made the cabinets out of Red Cedar. I might try to save some of them.

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I cool with whatever you need to share, wherever you need to share it at . I was really nervous that it was going to hit us, but it turned east and stayed south of us. I have done a lot of hurricane relief work in the past so I know how bad it can be..... well I how bad it can be to clean up and repair...not live through and recover from. My only personal experience was with Opel back in 95' we lost a bunch of trees and was out of power for two weeks .

I'm sorry you are having to deal with this, I don't have the words to comfort you and your family or lessen your burden but I'm willing to listen to anything you need to get off your shoulders.

 

[curious2garden]

One day last week I got back to my shooting house for the first time. From the side I had hopes. But it got got. I carried the seat from the bar stool through the pines almost a 1/4 mile. A lot of it with it on my head. Not easy going.

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Whew that was a scary one! I saw the upholstery on the the seat and it reminded me of @Aeroknow 's recent work on his boat and for a moment I though OH NO! Sorry it was you but glad it wasn't Aero's boat.

 

[neosapien]

It's all good. Quite a life event to go through. My folks lost everything in hurricane Irma. No insurance. Wiped out their life savings having to get a new place. This is the backyard. Neighbor to the right… no damage. Neighbor to the left…gone.

 

[too larry]

I cool with whatever you need to share, wherever you need to share it at . I was really nervous that it was going to hit us, but it turned east and stayed south of us. I have done a lot of hurricane relief work in the past so I know how bad it can be..... well I how bad it can be to clean up and repair...not live through and recover from. My only personal experience was with Opel back in 95' we lost a bunch of trees and was out of power for two weeks .

I'm sorry you are having to deal with this, I don't have the words to comfort you and your family or lessen your burden but I'm willing to listen to anything you need to get off your shoulders.

Thanks. And thanks for helping out back in the day. I forget the thread, but I bumped into someone on here who had came down and served hot food in a little town very near me. The kindness of strangers always floors me. We had a fellow stay at my work who runs a tractor with a grapple. He's been here since the week after the storm, clearing trees off people houses and yards, and not asking for a dollar from anyone. He is private-not for profit, but works with chainsaw teams from AmeriCorp. They came out to my house and got more done in 3 hours than I got done by myself in 3 weeks.

And linemen. . . . . If there was any lineman that were not getting laid, it was their own damn fault. Hell, I would have spooned with one myself if I had thought it would mean we got power back any quicker.

 

[too larry]

It's all good. Quite a life event to go through. My folks lost everything in hurricane Irma. No insurance. Wiped out their life savings having to get a new place. This is the backyard. Neighbor to the right… no damage. Neighbor to the left…gone.

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Hope they bounced back. Irma was a bad one. Hurricanes are fickle. My cousin from Tampa/St Pete area has a trailer they use as a camp. 12 trees came down around the house, none of them on it. My other cousin who has a trailer as a camp had one tree come down. On his trailer.

 

[too larry]

There was an all day timber meeting on Tuesday. I didn't go but Sister, BIL and his parents did. Learned a couple of things, neither of them worth a damn. All the mills have stopped taking dead trees. Didn't really expect anything else. Knew there would be a cutoff date. Had thought 3 months would have been it, but they did stretch it to four.

The other thing is that since the land and trees were given to us by my parents, we can't write the loss off on our taxes.

 

[too larry]

The wife and I did work on the trees right behind the house yesterday. Got some of the fence cleared and a pile as big as it's safe to burn that close to the house.

Before


After

 

[too larry]

I worked on getting the downed trees cut off at the base this morning. Got a lot of them done. Will have to clear a spot out further away from the house to take them to.

 

[too larry]

A lot of the cuts are scary. This one was the worse today. {that I did. There were a couple that I passed on until I can get the area cleaned up a little. No room to run if it does go bad} It was under a lot of sideways pressure, and when I cut it. it moved about 3 foot to the side way faster than I could have got out of the way.

 

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