Firstly, all was good at Sue & Wayne’s house on Friday. The Villages had a few areas of leaf debris along the streets, otherwise nothing. Diane & Kris have a big, well treed lot and they had enough to pick up. 😂
Kris had some dental work done and was sore. We recommended “thoup” … guess it wasn’t that funny to anyone with a sore mouth. 😂
Randy checked in on us yesterday. He has another procedure for kidney stones in his near future. When it rains it pours. Dawn has her sister arriving and they’re going to Disney with “all the kids.” Mark thinks Randy said there’s 15 in all … and he’s happy to stay home alone. 😂 (This seems to be an annual tradition with Dawn’s family.) Have a blast kids!
Yesterday, Mark discovered a wet corner in the garage! He took the baseboard off and discovered water had wicked it’s way up the wall. So, first thing was to get a fan on it. This morning he was on the roof … caulked a seam where the house and garage roofs meet. No evidence of a leak there but … maybe. This afternoon he’d thought more about it and pulled the kitchen fridge out. There was the culprit … a fitting on the waterline had a tiny drip. It’s been dripping back there since we ran the generator for a power outage in July!
So … tomorrow a new .50 cent part and $100 worth of fix-its. 🙄 We should have bought shares in Home Depot 30 years ago. 😂 You see, when the power was out in July Mark pulled the fridge out to plug it into an extension cord which ran through the house and out the back window to our portable generator. (Yeah, it’s not an easy flip of a switch here!) Anyway, so happy it wasn’t a roof issue. 😅
It was a couple days worry about our North Carolina family as Hurricane Helene hit their area. We knew cell phone towers were down and power off from the news. Later in the day Jeremy posted on Instagram that he and Abby were safe in their home but roads flooded. It was hours of texting family til Paula made it down from her mountain home and discovered cell service at an old Sears parking lot. We were able to tell her Jeremy & Abby were okay at their house. Of course they didn’t have power either. Paula made it to Jon’s house … no Jon, no electricity and no water service. Rumor has it the reservoir for Asheville’s water source was breached. It wasn’t til hours later that Jon made it home from the Grove Park Inn. That place closed indefinitely so guessing flooding and damage there. Olivia & Brian eventually found Paula at Jon’s and were able to confirm Marshall & Savannah were okay. What a mess that area’s in. Who would have thought it could hit this beautiful mountain area so badly. If you haven’t been there, every mountain town has a stream, river or creek. When it rains … well it has to go downhill. 🤷♀️ I’ll post a few pictures.
Mark and I RV’d to these beautiful spots over the years. We could not have imagined such destruction could take place. Hurricane Helene was a massive storm, 450 miles wide. It was a category four when it hit the big bend area of Florida. Devastation there was expected, even annihilation. But, to have gone so far north and caused this type of destruction is mind blowing.
All is well here, and we are happy to be in central Florida Could we get this here? Well, we could certainly have rising water, but we don’t have the mountains to filter it all down into the rivers and streams. But yes, some areas of Florida are more prone to flooding than others.
That’s it for today. We’re thinking of Bonnie and Roger who have been recovering from the tornado last May. They have left on their Mediterranean adventure today and we wish them a wonderful trip.
Ta ta.
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