Years of living around my family has taught ME not to argue with ANY of them when they have chainsaws...handsaws...butter knives. *L*
It IS nutty--Every time I come home, I stare at the front yard again in a complete state of "What the fuck?" confusion. I just can't get it through my head that something that destructive visited me.
I'm glad to see those lightning rods. Especially when the house is the highest thing out in the country side. Same principle as the golfer with the golf club on the course being a target. ...Bankers serves them right.. ;> I didn't want to say anything about them earlier, in case you didn't have them and add to the fears. You also know to stay in the car? Its safer in electrical storms. It acts like Faraday cage/shield. Its not just about a spaz on the show Lost. They use also use wire mesh like chainmail suits to protect people working on live high voltage. Same concept. The energy flows in the suit around them not through them since there is less resistance
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There are four total--Two on the top attic, two on the lower one. Course, the funny thing is that when we moved here, two of them weren't grounded. *L*
**You also know to stay in the car?
Oooh yeah. Funny story...when I was a kid, a local cop's car got struck by lightning while he was in it. Naturally, he was fine...but the electrical system of his car was shot to shit. So, his radio/CB didn't work and neither did the door locks and windows. He just had to sit there until someone noticed that he was missing. *L*
**Think about how far you've come with taking a photo driving.
True that--It's a good thing that I rarely think about it any more. I'm also no longer confined to the house after sunset now that I have new contacts. Turns out my old doctor had fucked up and put the astigmatism correction on the wrong eye. No wonder my depth perception was fucked.
**If the walls for the shed is still intact you can have you the old style of barn raisin'...That looks like what they're
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Vinyl siding isn't usually used to hide damage.It can be but its the "no painting" as the motivator. The damage will be from nailing. If its wood you'll have a bunch of roofing about 8d(penny) size nail holes. Simple caulk and paint to match if its not white. The paint underneath will prolly need a scrapin' after the years. Paint can be expensive so plan for that on the rip off costs. If its the ceramic/cement/asbestos tile siding you'll have massive splitting and shattering to replace
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**Vinyl siding isn't usually used to hide damage.Oh, I know. It's more the damage that it has CAUSED. This area is so much more damp/humid than inland NC. Of course vinyl (which this is) doesn't give the house room to breathe. I also hate that, though not intended to do so, it does end up hiding any damage to the actual wood underneath
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i remember when i was younger and lived in Colorado, my best friend amd i would go with her older cousin and try to chase tornadoes. and several years ago when a tornado came through our old apartment complex here in NC, we were close enough for our ears to pop from the air pressure change and wince as a tree outside came grashing down. didn't knock the power out though, which was good, aine my parents and i were watching Babylon 5.
Totally random babbling. Glad you came through unscathed :)
Yeah, we've had brushes with tornadoes before too. When I was a really little kid, I stood out on the front porch with Mom and watched one demolish like three pine trees. By the time we figured out what was going on, it was gone.
My brother had one sideswipe his van while he was driving a few years back. It rocked it about and that was it.
polly_snodgrass had just moved out of a trailer when a tornado hit it and completely demolished it--like threw her refrigerator through the neighbor's roof and shit.
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Quite a thing to come home to, eh?
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This is not a fun game. I fold. ;)
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*L*
It IS nutty--Every time I come home, I stare at the front yard again in a complete state of "What the fuck?" confusion. I just can't get it through my head that something that destructive visited me.
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There are four total--Two on the top attic, two on the lower one.
Course, the funny thing is that when we moved here, two of them weren't grounded. *L*
**You also know to stay in the car?
Oooh yeah.
Funny story...when I was a kid, a local cop's car got struck by lightning while he was in it.
Naturally, he was fine...but the electrical system of his car was shot to shit. So, his radio/CB didn't work and neither did the door locks and windows.
He just had to sit there until someone noticed that he was missing. *L*
**Think about how far you've come with taking a photo driving.
True that--It's a good thing that I rarely think about it any more.
I'm also no longer confined to the house after sunset now that I have new contacts. Turns out my old doctor had fucked up and put the astigmatism correction on the wrong eye. No wonder my depth perception was fucked.
**If the walls for the shed is still intact you can have you the old style of barn raisin'...That looks like what they're ( ... )
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i remember when i was younger and lived in Colorado, my best friend amd i would go with her older cousin and try to chase tornadoes. and several years ago when a tornado came through our old apartment complex here in NC, we were close enough for our ears to pop from the air pressure change and wince as a tree outside came grashing down. didn't knock the power out though, which was good, aine my parents and i were watching Babylon 5.
Totally random babbling. Glad you came through unscathed :)
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Yeah, we've had brushes with tornadoes before too.
When I was a really little kid, I stood out on the front porch with Mom and watched one demolish like three pine trees.
By the time we figured out what was going on, it was gone.
My brother had one sideswipe his van while he was driving a few years back. It rocked it about and that was it.
polly_snodgrass had just moved out of a trailer when a tornado hit it and completely demolished it--like threw her refrigerator through the neighbor's roof and shit.
They're scary...neat, but scary.
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and in that first pic you look like some kinda feline in the brush ready to pounce and attack!
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Now you just have to look for the 10 foot tall splinter in the front yard.
The pic was actually Rob's idea. It's neat cause it looks like I'm standing but I was actually laying on the ground with limbs pulled over me. *L*
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