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Originally Posted by Lucille
I really hope it does not turn out to be serious, I am still very ill after being diagnosed with diabetes, can't cope with anything else right now.
So how is the roof project? Are you ready for the inevitable horrible Florida hurricanes?
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Didn't you move back to Houston? If so, you might want to start taking precautions and making tentative plans now. Just in case. Might just be a heavy rain event, but you never know.
The metal for the roof was supposed to be in at the roofers on 06-11, but we haven't heard anything further. It is supposed to take a week for the job, so there is not a very high likelihood that we will get a solid week without rain when they schedule the work. I tried like hell to fix the leaks on the roof over several days, but best I could do was to slow it down quite a bit. Fortunately none of the leaking water coming into the living space, but just from the soffit overhanging the enclosed porch. But I am sure that means some damaged boards in the decking that will need to be replaced.
Hmm, I have to find some video I took of the roof a while back that shows all the rusted areas that convinced me to have to roof replaced instead of just patching up that one section.
To further complicate things, when we had the oak tree removed that caused that roof damage, one of the guys impacted the roof over the porch (which is not scheduled to be replaced) with the machinery he was using and cut into the edge of one of the panels. I did not realize it earlier, as we had not had rain since the damage and before the guy came out to figure out what needed to be done for the repair, but apparently the impact from that machinery also broke the caulk seal between that damaged panel and the one next to it. I discovered that when we got over 3 inches of rain yesterday. It is leaking quite noticeably there now on the porch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvVGNvIidY8
But in any event, I am confident that Murphy's Law has me squarely in his sights for that roof work. I seem to constantly be a target of his attention.
As for the Florida hurricanes, they really haven't been all that bad or threatening, discounting Michael, of course. But the good thing is that we don't have animals any longer, so if we need to bail out to a different part of the country temporarily, no big deal. Worse come to worse we can sleep fairly comfortably in the Grand Cherokee if need be if accommodations are sparse because of evacuations. Hopefully COVID is on the decline enough that it won't be the major concern it has been for the complication of compounding one emergency on top of another.