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Post by kaijafon on Sept 6, 2017 17:41:13 GMT -6
Bill wanted me to let everyone know he and his are ok. He is in the Ingleside area and has gas and water (and hopefully electric soon) Remembergoliad is his handle here.  He goes by Bill Priday on facebook. |
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Post by pbbrown0 on Sept 6, 2017 18:24:48 GMT -6
Good to hear!
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Post by 9idrr on Sept 6, 2017 18:41:56 GMT -6
What he said. And thanks, Fearless Leader K, for passin' the word along. |
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Post by remembergoliad on Feb 12, 2018 8:18:08 GMT -6
Has gas and makin' water. Quite a combination. But that just shows all my internals were working  Got electricity back on day 12 and internet back above 80% availability in November. We'd been relying on cell phone data signal and I just didn't do much beyond check email and some quick news headline looking. It was fun....sorta. Still adjusting to how different the town looks with 3/4 of the trees gone. Lots of new roofs, lots of blue still. Much worse just 10 miles north of us. Still folks living in tent cities. Ya might say their relaxation is intense. Or in tents. Yeah, bad pun...oh well. Big story on the television news about one tent city in Rockport when we got a rare snow event on Dec 8th. The reporter was more freaked out than the residents. Corpus Christi was pretty-much unscathed. Anyone <50 years old has no idea; the last one of this magnitude through here was in 1970. I was six, remember it vividly. Sister was 4, has vague memories. In some ways this one was worse. Not sure if it was because I was responsible for my own existence and it weighed heavier on me, or because it was actually worse. More destruction than Celia here in town and points north, but mostly of newer construction built after codes were enacted. Seems people use the codes as a standard instead of a minimum. My house was built in the early 50's and came through structurally intact. A few blocks away houses built after '80 or so suffered massive damage. One addition across the alley from me, added on in the 90's, blew completely apart and it was built "to code" which means to the minimum standard. Not enough. The nuts and bolts of it (literally) are that my house has a 2:12 pitch roof---very flat, any less rise to it and regular shingles wouldn't work on it---and the rafters/joists are all oak and cedar, and BOLTED together with huge square-headed bolts and nuts on every joint. Nails worked loose on the newer houses. Lesson learned. Also, 'built to code' means X number of nails at a certain place...put more nails. When Mom and Dad added on to their house in 1967, the framers would leave for the day at like 4 pm, Dad would be out there til dark adding nails to everywhere he could reach. House and addition stood through both Celia and Harvey. I'm building several new outbuildings at the farm, near the garden....a office/lounge/bathroom facility for the boss to go into when she needs to get out of her chair for a while....animal shelters...and other etcetera type things, and they're all getting bolted together after they're stood up. Nail guns are nice but they shoot smooth nails that don't bite. Lag bolts and cap screws with real nuts on 'em mean you gotta break the wood instead of simply pull out a few nails, and that takes much more force to do it. Enough rambling. Thanks Kellie for posting this; I didn't see it until just now and I thank those of you who saw and responded for thinking of us. There's a story in there somewhere that I'm going to write before it's all over but it hasn't gelled yet in my mind and demanded to be let out. When that happens I'll ramble in a more-focused manner |
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