chicken fried
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Winds starting to pick up steady now in Lafayette, strong from the north with strong gusts. Still out in the yard in a raincoat stowing stuff. Lost a lot of time this morning because my friend went to the RNC convention & forgot to ready the generator for his wife and got stranded in Tampa. Generator wouldn't run this morning - 2-year-old gas plugged up the carb - had to take it back to my place to rebuild the carb to get it running for her.
Already lost a 5'x8' section of siding off the NW corner of the house - I forgot we hadn't nailed down the end because we didn't have the correct corner cap to repair it after the Nov. fire. Wind ripped it right off. Dang. This storm's going to be kind of hairy because there's so much construction mat'l stacked around the yard - metal roofing - siding, etc. Nothing I can do about it. Stuff's going to fly. Trees/vines/barbed wire hopefully thick enough between my place and the nearest neighbor's (100 feet away) that it'll catch airborne missiles. About to go out on the ladder and nail plywood over the end windows. Should have done it yesterday. Worried about the large dead cypress and large dead oak from the fire.... when the back side of the storm hits and the wind shifts to the south, that's when I'll see if they stand or fall. If they fall, they fall toward the house.
Ugh.
Already lost a 5'x8' section of siding off the NW corner of the house - I forgot we hadn't nailed down the end because we didn't have the correct corner cap to repair it after the Nov. fire. Wind ripped it right off. Dang. This storm's going to be kind of hairy because there's so much construction mat'l stacked around the yard - metal roofing - siding, etc. Nothing I can do about it. Stuff's going to fly. Trees/vines/barbed wire hopefully thick enough between my place and the nearest neighbor's (100 feet away) that it'll catch airborne missiles. About to go out on the ladder and nail plywood over the end windows. Should have done it yesterday. Worried about the large dead cypress and large dead oak from the fire.... when the back side of the storm hits and the wind shifts to the south, that's when I'll see if they stand or fall. If they fall, they fall toward the house.
Ugh.