sometimes the weather brings you with it
Aug. 27th, 2011 12:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thanateRain has arrived, but the wind is still mostly light and intermittent. We're as weatherized as we're liable to get, and the builders left yesterday evening with instructions to call them if anything goes wrong. (Of course, if anything goes majorly wrong, it's likely to be because of storm conditions I'm not about to ask anyone to drive through, but we appreciate the sentiment.) The people next door made a rather half-hearted attempt at cleaning up, complete with leaving a bag of shingles hanging off the scaffolding that's still up between our houses right next to the powerline. I went over and tossed all the plastic bottles & cups they'd left lying around into the garage in the back (and if anyone's looking for someplace to shoot some low budget horror movie footage, I highly recommend that as a location) but the broken glass on the back porch is Someone Else's Problem.
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grauwulf has gone off to work *again* but in theory should be back mid-afternoon, and then able to spend the rest of the weekend helping me build a couch fort or something. We're also prepped for a couple days of power & water outage, but on the whole it looks like we're enough inland and far enough uphill that we're not really likely to have a lot of trouble. Both my parents (in NoVa's fail-if-you-sneeze power grid and out of town so they can't run the generator) and my grandparents (on a heavily forested lot much too near NYC) are in more trouble than we are, but there isn't a lot I can do about that.
So, what we find is that "weatherized" means walls and floors up:
Thursday evening (first floor floored in, plus most of the side walls up):
Side:
And inside, lit with a blue-tarp glow:
Friday night:
Xposty from dreamwidth, but yes, I'm still here.
grauwulf has gone off to work *again* but in theory should be back mid-afternoon, and then able to spend the rest of the weekend helping me build a couch fort or something. We're also prepped for a couple days of power & water outage, but on the whole it looks like we're enough inland and far enough uphill that we're not really likely to have a lot of trouble. Both my parents (in NoVa's fail-if-you-sneeze power grid and out of town so they can't run the generator) and my grandparents (on a heavily forested lot much too near NYC) are in more trouble than we are, but there isn't a lot I can do about that. So, what we find is that "weatherized" means walls and floors up:
Thursday evening (first floor floored in, plus most of the side walls up):
Side:
And inside, lit with a blue-tarp glow:
Friday night:
Xposty from dreamwidth, but yes, I'm still here.