Thursday - September 08, 2011

I’m beginning to feel like Noah

It’s still raining. 5 days of it now. We’ve had drizzle, we’ve had downpours, we’ve had every kind of rain in between, and multiple thunderstorms too. The only thing we haven’t had is strong winds.

Coming home late last night from work I got caught in such a torrent of a thunderstorm that I could barely see to drive. Being the only car on the local highway at 1am, I chugged along at 35mph with the dashed white line right under me, riding halfway between the lanes. That put my car up on the crown of the road. The lines were the only thing I could see, and the sides of the road were quickly flooded. It rained that hard for at least another hour. Weather Channel was saying we’d get perhaps 1/4”. Phooey, I’m sure we got at least 3” from that downpour alone.

And it’s still drizzling this morning.

Unlike Noah, I’m fresh out of gopher wood, so I had to make due with oak:

doors and hinges from DDC Industries. Quality stuff is never inexpensive.

It took me more than 2 hours to rehang those doors with the spring hinges and adjust them. It’s a fussy job! You need a lot of patience to do this job right, and a set of precision calipers really helps. A jack stand and an extra pair or two of hands wouldn’t hurt either. But I soldiered on alone, and they came out just about perfect. I may have set the spring tension a bit too high ... they’re a bit “catapulty” right now and snap close right smartly. Oh well. It only takes a minute to change the tension.

5 days of rain isn’t going to set any kind of record; I lived through 40+ days of it one year up in Binghamton NY. But this has been 5 days of non-stop rain, all day all night every day. The almost constant beep beep beep of the nanny state’s safety message on the television - “a flood warning has been issued for your area” - has become background noise. After a while you hardly even notice it.

Posted by Drew458     on 09/08/2011 at 08:35 AM   
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