F.U.B.A.R.
Thank you Gustav. After three days and nights of rain, this is my driveway last night after work. In case it isn't obvious, this culvert is supposed to be underground. Instead, the rain scoured away the surface, floated the culvert out of its trench, and laid it on the surface of what is left of the drive. I am not happy.According to the AP wire, we've received just over 7 inches of rain over the last three days and had wind gusts up to 45 miles per hour. Apparently, that is just the right amount of rain to destroy my driveway. Lovely.
More on this to come.
posted by John | 7:04 PM
10 Comments:
Here's hoping that The Devil Queen herself didn't sustain any damage....
Hanna's dealing us a blow. Hopefully nothing that will cause permanent damage, but we're definitely feeling vulnerable with gaping holes in the kitchen walls.
Sorry about your driveway =[ Maybe you could pave it next time?
And yet!
And yet!
Your home, that you bought for a DOLLAR and cut in half and transported across a town to a new location and rebuilt yourself with evil contractors and wingéd simians still stands.
This is you: putting the Ark in Arkansas. Noble. Heroic. American. If not American, American-esque.
People look to you and your bisected house, your demi-domicile, and they say to themselves "Gustav took on that fkkr and di'in even make a dent." and then they'll spit, John. They'll spit on the ground and they'll admire the Devil Queen with admiration, because the two go together like peas and carrots.
People may even remove their ten gallon hats from their half-gallon head and hold those ten gallon hats over their hearts in a patriotic gesture of respect, and those people will probably be holding their ten gallon Stetsons over the wrong side of their chest but WHO CARES IT'S THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS, and by gar those people had a thought and that's pretty rare so let's take it for what it's worth.
-- Janine
Yep. What she said.
Coulda been much worse.
Well...don't bother making repairs until Ike does what it is going to do. No point in doing it twice.
We just had Hannah. Not much wind really but A LOT of rain. Our drive is paved so no issues there but the rain played havoc with the landscaping...we have drainage issues (as in, where the water drains issues).
Best of luck with all that...
Sorry to hear about the drive; but glad The Devil Queen is okay (raps knuckles on wood).
My son was in military and I know what that means! LOL
Glad the Devil Queen and all of you are OK. Sorry about the driveway. Could have been much worse.
Thanks everyone, quite right. It could always be worse. Ike didn't do anything, and the drive is fixed (for now). So, hopefully, we're good for now.
And Janine, I had to read that a couple of times; it's freaking hysterical. Thanks! I needed it. Keep it up and I'll make you post on this blog for me.
I bring the funny, my friend. I Bring The Funny. Listen, when we get into OUR house and I'm up all night carefully painting my walls white and being careful when I'm doing the edging, and when I catch three hours sleep and then get up to see that all my latex efforts were wasted on walls coated by the POs with oil based paint, and all my efforts are bubbling and peeling like an 80-year olds sunburn in Clearwater, Florida....
...you can save ME with some humour.
-- Janine
So THAT's what's the matter with the paint I put on the bathroom walls! I wondered why it peeled every time I bumped up against the wall. SIGH!
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