Hurricane Elsa, here we go
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At the moment near Oxford, just a little breezy, but I'd have to call it a "frog strangler" over the past half-hour or so.
Just looked at Weather Underground radar ... one of those orange blobs just passed by, moving up towards Henderson.
Just looked at Weather Underground radar ... one of those orange blobs just passed by, moving up towards Henderson.
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Our building has a long covered driveway that circles back out onto an adjoining street.
The drive is blocked on one side by the building but open on the other by columns. I am standing in the drive by our door now waiting for someone to drive through and pick something up. The wind funnels through, and some of the gusts are right sporty.
The drive is blocked on one side by the building but open on the other by columns. I am standing in the drive by our door now waiting for someone to drive through and pick something up. The wind funnels through, and some of the gusts are right sporty.
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I had a washout on Father’s Day when we got 5” of rain all at once. Made a mess with all the water and mulch from my neighbors plugging my catch basin on the hill. So I built a prototype screen out of 1/4” hardware cloth to incrementally mitigate any drain plugging. Not sure if I got enough rain all at once to test it today.
The mess. It had overflowed, and washed down that river rock and mulch.
Right after unplugging the drain. The sucking sound of that water into the 16” grate and six inch pipe was pretty loud.
Once the catch basin on the hill gets about 10” deep it washes over the “spillway” and makes a mess. I fabbed up a 5” tall 16” x 16"screen on top of the drain grate to catch mulch and debris from the neighbors. If it works I’ll build something sturdier out of expandable metal or something. The current prototype is sturdier than it looks, but not so much that it will withstand the landscape guys stepping on it. Yes, I have people for that job at my house, although I cut grass at my son’s house weekly in Harnett County. Go figure.
The mess. It had overflowed, and washed down that river rock and mulch.
Right after unplugging the drain. The sucking sound of that water into the 16” grate and six inch pipe was pretty loud.
Once the catch basin on the hill gets about 10” deep it washes over the “spillway” and makes a mess. I fabbed up a 5” tall 16” x 16"screen on top of the drain grate to catch mulch and debris from the neighbors. If it works I’ll build something sturdier out of expandable metal or something. The current prototype is sturdier than it looks, but not so much that it will withstand the landscape guys stepping on it. Yes, I have people for that job at my house, although I cut grass at my son’s house weekly in Harnett County. Go figure.
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We drove west to visit my mother this morning and pretty much missed everything, except for a shower near Morganton. With any luck it will all have blown through the Winston-Salem area by the time we come home .
As things settle down, there are certainly some discontent and bedraggled songbirds at my feeder.
It was a terrible day in the mountains too.
There was a couple of times it got overcast for about 10 minutes.
Then the sun came back out and the temp shot up to 80.
Brutal.
There was a couple of times it got overcast for about 10 minutes.
Then the sun came back out and the temp shot up to 80.
Brutal.
We got nothing.
