Last night's windstorm, is everybody ok?

Pics
Date sort Score sort
Hi from eastern Ontario. :frowI heard the storm I got here originated in Texas. Thanks anyway but next time you can keep your bad weather at home. :lau Here I got one day of heavy rain, followed by freezing rain and ice pellets, then snow. Thankfully no strong winds. Muscovys didn't seen to mind the rain and enjoyed bathing in the big puddles. Back inside once the temperature dropped.
 
EggSighted4Life said:
. Thankfully the electrician came out that next day and restored power as the power crew was also working away on it and it only costed me about $700. :hmm

e farther up the road and no one else was willing to help or would have been able to pass. I refused to pay the measly $25, as I was not consulted about it first... and I compost. :duc

live in the city. I here him griping at his wife all the time if things aren't perfected to his expectations.

Turns out... if the trees were not previously identified as a concern to the property owner (or were in good condition)... they have NO liability... to repair the hood/fender of my Sub or cover the power box cost and it is considered an act of God.

Now if I am unable to do something about all the other half dead trees leaning toward my house/driveway, and top heavy from invasive ivy vines.. lining their property :barnie


. :pop
Click to expand...
In not a lawyer but this is my understanding as well. You must notify them of a problem in writing, or it will be considered an act of God, regardless of your religious beliefs!
I’m in the process now with a large, seemingly diseased tree that’s Looming over my driveway, but is actually on town land.

I also had my power box removed in a storm at my previous house and it cost me exactly $700 too!!
 
WannaBeHillBilly said:
Just took a screenshot for last night's weather forecast:
View attachment 2000696
You got that big line of storms to the right, we were hit by that unsuspiciously looking second line at the left, that suddenly inflated and the fell apart over the mountains…
Click to expand...

We got hit here right after 11pm last night. It was fast moving. The straight line winds started about an hour after dark. I imagine it was similar to or possibly the same as what @Miss Lydia experienced, since we're in the same state, but I am more central NC, kind of below Raleigh.
Thankfully my ducks decided to come in off the pond last night and they were safe in their duck house. Their feeding area outside the duck house, which is just a play yard, was blown over and almost in the pond. I'm sure they were terrified
 
Last edited:
WhyDoILikeChickens said:
Was getting ready to lay down (roughly 2am) and after reading a post about raccoon attack I figured I should check on the chickens. Older hen has the big coop all to herself. The young ones will just huddle outside if their coop is blocked. Sure enough the wind blew their door shut. 9 pulleys and 1 rooster all huddled in small groups with an inch of frozen snow covering them. Picked them all up and placed in their coop. Dummies rather be covered in snow than bunk up with old hen or just go under her coop and stay dry.
Then I couldn't sleep so I read these forums till about 5am.
Checked on them this morning and they are fine.
Click to expand...
Before i attached a hook to the duck-house door to keep it open, the ducks ran around the house stood in front of my home-office window and started to do that QUACK-alert thing, you know one duck yells QUACK!, another duck responds with QUACK! a third duck yells… and so on until all (15 at that time) had quacked, then the first duck again…
When i finally stuck my head out they all ran to the duck-house door and quacked there until i realized what had happened, walked out and opened the door for them. Happened three or four times before i attached the hook.
 
DukesDucks said:
Hi from eastern Ontario. :frowI heard the storm I got here originated in Texas. Thanks anyway but next time you can keep your bad weather at home. :lau Here I got one day of heavy rain, followed by freezing rain and ice pellets, then snow. Thankfully no strong winds. Muscovys didn't seen to mind the rain and enjoyed bathing in the big puddles. Back inside once the temperature dropped.
Click to expand...
Well, what about that: We keep our bad weather for us if you keep your lousy cold Canadian Air Masses up there! :gig
Its kind of funny how ludicrously our humon borders are for mother nature!
 
thumper650 said:
In not a lawyer but this is my understanding as well. You must notify them of a problem in writing, or it will be considered an act of God, regardless of your religious beliefs!
I’m in the process now with a large, seemingly diseased tree that’s Looming over my driveway, but is actually on town land.

I also had my power box removed in a storm at my previous house and it cost me exactly $700 too!!
Click to expand...
Well i hope our power-box will never be removed by any kind of natural disaster, because it is inside the house! That would very likely be more expensive than $700. Luckily the pole on the roof is part of the insurance contract and from there on it's the power companies responsibility.
 

New posts New threads Active threads

Back
Top Bottom