hokeyhydro Posted September 1, 2011 Posted September 1, 2011 Power up! 6 days on the little Honda generator to keep my beer cold and my coffee hot, but soon I should have hot water for a nice warm shower instead of the last week of chilly ones. I was lucky. I'll take several days of semi-roughing it with no juice over the wrecked and flooded homes around me. Remind me to thank the Federal government for establishing building codes for coastal homes. My fairly new one is Cat 3. Works as advertised . . . Quote
paul_stewart Posted September 4, 2011 Posted September 4, 2011 photo in http://www.towndock.net/ Quote
Designer Posted September 5, 2011 Posted September 5, 2011 Thanks for all of the support. We were lucky to have no structural damage but lost a lot from flooding. There was 50 inches in the lower shop and 16" in the high shop and 8" in the utility room in the house. The cleanup has been and still is an enormous amount of work. Our Fire Department has been a distribution point and we handed out thousands of meals, ice, water, tarps, Clorox etc.. I lost a lot of power tools including the control box from the ShopBot. The big shop was a real mess, the cat hulls were perfectly aligned but were lifted up and left a skew. Poor Southern Skimmer floated so high that the board fell down in front of the axle so that I can't lower the boat down until I lift the stern high enough to be able to swing the board up clearing the axle. The other picture is looking from our front door looking across to the church, the eye is over us and the wind is nearly calm, the water has dropped 4". Quote
wkisting Posted September 5, 2011 Posted September 5, 2011 Wow, sorry to see and hear about all the mess and clean-up still ahead of you. Glad you and Carla are okay, and it's nice to see Beth with such a big grin on her face in the newspaper photo Paul posted. Glad to hear the boats survived also. From what I can see in the pictures, they don't look much worse for wear. Quote
Tom Lathrop Posted September 5, 2011 Posted September 5, 2011 I saw Graham and Carla at home and the shop yesterday. They had problems with water under their house and much water at the shop. Like the rest of us, Graham is working his way out of it a bit at the time. It is discouraging to see things get trashed that way, but it comes with the territory. The big Cat came through well but the main shop did get a lot of water and working out of that takes time and effort. No amount of FEMA is going to solve that. I managed to forget my jointer when raising the shop machines and it looks like a pile of rust right now and will need the motor rebuilt and bearings plus elbow grease before it runs again. Forgot a drawer under the workbench with all my chisels and gouges and they got rusted. Lots of other mess and damage but it is just stuff. The county got hammered pretty bad and we are much better off than many others. Quote
paul_stewart Posted September 13, 2011 Posted September 13, 2011 Cleaning up after Irene: Town Dock reporting in Vandemere.... http://towndock.net/...-vandemere?pg=3 Town Dock reporting in Hobuken.... http://towndock.net/...ken-and-lowland ... Quote
Hirilonde Posted September 13, 2011 Posted September 13, 2011 This makes me realize just how lucky we were in RI. It seems that the hard landfall in NC threw her a little off course and slowed things down a little. I am in a hotel in Fayetteville tonight on our way to my new son-in-law's graduation from Air Force OSI school and noticed some of the damage along the way here. Though what I have seen is minor to what Graham and family have experienced. I send my best to all recovering. Quote
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