Friend and I (both 8-9 years old) took cover in an older barn during a bad thunderstorm. Lightening hit the barn while we were in it. Hard to hear for half a day and lots of laundry to do....scared s***less.
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It should've happened sooner, really. What sounds safer, sending kids home early to distribute them and put them back under family care during an emergency, or have all of them shuttled together into one space when there's only enough adults around to attend them at a 20:1 ratio?
If ages were 10 years more, you got a start of a good story pending who the “friend” was.
Separating out wind/hail deductibles from other events. Our townhome association policy is now 2% of the value of the property for wind/hail. Huge increase.
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Problem is they'll barely let the wood dry, put up the drywall and 5 years down the road the walls will be full of mold. It's amazing to me how quickly they'll build houses on hills they've quickly put 40 feet of dirt onto or close up walls that are wet. Never amazes me how many houses in newer developments have settling issues or mold problems.
With full being normal, when you have levels of drought......"almost" full is considered a level of empty.
I will never stop being grateful to past me for closely examing GIS data when we picked our lot to build. It's lower in the neighborhood so about half the rainwater funnels through our yard but we are significantly higher than surrounding area. 9 yrs in which includes some big 2018 flooding and to our knowledge, we've never heard the sump pump run.
Thankfully my workplace announced an early closure at 2 PM to allow staff to make it home before inclement weather. This is a relief, as I have to pick up all of my kids as my husband is at the hospital working until 8 PM. I had already requested to leave at 3 PM, but this will avoid resentment from those still here keeping us open until our normal time.
I just stepped outside because we've somehow got a SVR warning just to the east but it's still cloudy and felt almost cool. Very weird. Pretty breeze out of the SE which is....not usual.
Wow. Left work around 11ish because they said we could work from home if we wanted because of the storms. Email went out around 12:30p by one of my department VPs that our CEO went around and said they wanted the building cleared by 1p because of the storms coming.
Friendly reminder to those in the earlier path, weather radios are great, charge your cell phones/power banks and for the littles (and yourself honestly), have shoes and bike helmets ready if you'll be going to a basement or interior space. And any critical prescriptions/meds close at hand.
You should probably plug it in….
Read where Melbourne lost power too so those without batter backup on their sump pumps have a mess.
Currently sitting here in my office charging my phone. Just wishing I had a better idea of where we had flashlights at home.
