It was a ok day until about 6pm. Well if you don’t include the financial debacle we are going through. Since a lot of my retirement is in a 401K and not many choices to move it around, along with penalties if you move it more than quarterly, I took a real beating on the last two days and I have it in conservative funds. Being and investor and not a trader, I did start putting some of the set-aside cash today into some of the really beaten down stocks that pay a good dividend. Just hope they have about suffered enough? The return on them will look pretty good if they can just maintain value form here out? I know, wish in one hand and spit in the other and see which fills up first.
Beyond that I didn’t get a lot done. I did get out and do some more scrubbing and cleaning on the front of the motor home to get the bugs and nasty grease prints off the front from all the work on the air conditioning unit… I got it pretty clean and in the process that means I had to use a “de-greaser” which took all the wax off so I had to put some wax back on today… All I worked on was the front… it was too damn hot to work on anything else…
It wasn’t long after that point that it started to cloud up. Oh boy maybe we get some rain?
Well the clouds got darker and it started blowing – not much rain but a lot of wind… I would guess it was in the 70+ mph maybe more as it did some damage to the trees in the neighborhood and to my tower…
Now I have to call the welder and we will have to take it down, so he can cut the top out and build a new top. I will have a guy bracket put on near the top so I can brace it a bit more for the Oklahoma winds… It has stood up to what they said were 60 mph winds last year but not this one… so no telling how much more it was than that?
It also tore up some of the sun shades on the lower level that till now had been protected from the wind, in fact they were hidden behind the big tree to the NW but it still popped one apart.
Actually the one on this end just didn’t pull up right the broken one is already laying down. Some got rolled up one taken down and one broken down and these two on this end wouldn’t roll up but survived, if we can unfold them…
We did get about 0.60 inches of rain according to my station… it was enough to make the “snake river” run and our rocking and fixing earlier seemed to hold this time..
We survived, the house survived and the shop seemed to be ok… tomorrow I will do a little more looking but the tower is “toast” and will need repairs. So far the APRS station is still working… I will just have to swap to the much shorter antenna temporary when we get to take the tower down.
Such is life in Oklahoma when a storm comes you better take cover and hang on…