Where is flex seal when you need it?
Nesrie
5202
I’ve had broken water mains at two of my homes, and they are horrible. One of them I was not responsible which was, well memorable, the other one I fixed and was able to get a one time write-off on a big part of the water bill. The amount of water coming out of those is pretty surprising, and that’s to a single unit, not a giant apartment pipe.
Alstein
5203
Due to impending ice storm here, I got called off of work for 2nd time ever.
Admittedly this is so co-workers can live with power (their situation is real shitty, but they’re all about themselves), but I’ll take it.
Right now I’m without power and while indoors I use nitrile gloves. They are thin but they do put something between your bare skin and the cold air, they trap some of your heat, I can retain finger dexterity, and they work with touch screens. They can also be an under layer to regular gloves.
85º in February. That’s…normal, right?
Well, Florida is pretty much the US’s Queensland.
orald
5209
Wake up and smell the frostbite! Hello March. These dogs ain’t gonna walk themselves.
The winds here were fierce last night. And unfortunately it was trash night. My recycling bucket ended up a block away, busted into at least 4 pieces. My garbage bucket was in front of the neighbor, with cat poo bags and garbage strewn about. Not fun cleaning up this morning, and bitterly cold while doing so.
Nesrie
5211
So update on the fire seasons, Oregon is looking at passing a bill to try and strength requirements about insurance coverage. There were a lot of folks who didn’t have coverage and all but those who did are running into a problem of the insurance companies only allowing one year to build. Two cities were gutted, they’re drowning in permit requests, there is no electricity, water, nothing at these sites until they can get in there and repair all those lines. This means the only ones who can really do anything at the moment are those with generators, and there are not enough builders. Meanwhile, homeowner are starting to panic because of that one year deadline the insurance companies enforce for rebuilding.
This is what they’re looking at:
HB 3272 makes the following changes to Oregon statutes to ensure that policies meet the needs of individuals experiencing catastrophic loss:
• Requires a minimum of two years to rebuild a burned or destroyed home, and up to two years of living expenses. These minimums would be increased to 3 years after a State Declared Emergency.
• Requires insurance companies to offer or provide an updated estimate of replacement cost with every other renewal of the policy.
• Allows homeowners to rebuild or buy in a new location.
• Allows homeowners to collect combined structure coverage limits to rebuild a home. Homeowners would be allowed to use the limit of coverage for outbuildings and other structures, up to the amount actual loss, to rebuild the home.
HB 3272 also ensures that consumers have a fair opportunity to hold agents and companies accountable for bad business practices:
Six months later, and it looks… pretty much the same as it did when I walked through the carnage. Kind of smells the same too.
Vesper
5212
So this is heading for us this weekend here in Colorado:
I’m in the dark red (36"+). Ugh.
Timex
5214
Tomorrow, the high is going to be 62, and the low is going to be 26.
LeeAbe
5215
Having spent most of my adult life in Cheyenne, seeing that map made me smile. Sure they will get 24" of snow, but most likely the wind will blow it into huge dunes along buildings and fences. Even if it isn’t windy, there will be a nice lock down for a day or two and then the roads will all be plowed and life will go on like normal. Sort of miss those snow days. Blizzards are great if you don’t have to go anywhere.
KevinC
5216
In the Mountain West we call that March (joking, but there is a fairly common weather pattern here that results in that kind of swing)!:) It’s nuts actually feeling the temperature plummet over the course of an hour or so. Always fun having to prepare for two seasons in a single day.
KevinC
5217
Yeesh. Looks like that system is missing me entirely, which is a mixed blessing. I’m glad I don’t have to deal with three feet of snow but at the same time the winter has been bone dry aside from the past couple weeks where we’ve received at least a little precipitation. Snowpack is looking terrible which doesn’t bode well for water this summer and the fire season.
They keep talking about “drought” but honestly it seems like it’s increasingly just the way things are, aside from a few notable years of really heavy snowfall. At what point do they stop referring to lack of rain/snow as a drought and just acknowledge the climate has changed, I wonder?
Vesper
5218
Yeah. While I’m not looking forward to the annoyance of lots of snow, we do really need the water. I can’t even remember the last time we got rain here.
LeeAbe
5219
Looks like the storm missed you guys? My weather app of choice is saying just a few inches that were originally expected to get 34" plus.
Vesper
5220
Haha no. Here’s what I woke up to this morning. Llama and pug for scale. It’s now up to 18”. More pics later.
