A Hurricane Conga Line?
It seems like no matter where you live, mother nature has some regionally specific badness that can be thrown at you. Earthquakes & Wildfires out west, Finger-of-God Tornadoes in the Midwest, blizzards in the North East; in the south we get Hurricanes. Compared to the others, really Hurricanes on paper don’t seem quite so bad. They don’t get a couple days notice on West for earthquakes and Blizzards can last for days. Hurricane landfall models are usually pretty good.
Not really, so much with Sally, though. Sally’s track flummoxed forecasting models as it stalled to a creeping 2 MPH.
Gettin’ Crazy w/ the Cheese Whiz
Had to get creative with that spray foam stuff during the storm as water started to intrude in wild places.
Further creative spray foam engineering, I made a spray foam boot in 40 MPH winds to mitigate a downspout blowout.
Cleanup
Driven Water literally pushed through the mortar into the basement.
I spend most of the 2-4 am hours of the storm sponging water into buckets with thick towels.. I dumped about 40 gallons of water this way.
Amazingly the only real game room casualty was some Wii and xBox 360 discs and manuals got damp. Pictures here is the pile stacked around arcade with multiple fans blowing on it.
Two and a half weeks later..
The sounds of chainsaws and machinery have filled the air for about 3 weeks and things are starting to improve. Power is restored to (most) places.
My chainsaws are cleaned w/ new chains, drained & back on the shelf until the next time they are called into duty, hopefully not anytime very soon.
The coastal areas towards Gulf Shores, Orange Beach & Pensacola will be rebuilding for the next year. I’ve heard stories of people swimming out of the remnants of their homes & larger charter boats pulling their moorings and ending up miles inland.
For us…
Internet has been spotty; Mediacom advertises that 95% of their customers have been restored.
(They lie.)
So, we’ve been living that hotspot life off and on while they work on it. I have, fortunately, been able to get some work done but the hotspot hasn’t left me with an abundance of hobby-time.
Remember how, like… this is a Hobby blog about Arcades & Pinball? I’d planned to take some time in September and October playing around with retro consoles, playing with the Bitkit and checking out MISTer FPGA boards.
2020, I guess.
..and there are more storms in the Gulf…
