Flood update June 1, 2013

It was a productive day yesterday.  I went to the store and came home to find Jackie and Logan working on my house.  With their help we got up almost all of the tack strips from the carpet.  We still haven’t moved the aquariums so we aren’t able to get the carpet up under them nor the tack strips.  Aquariums are very heavy when full and I only want to move them once.  I will probably have to build new stands for them anyhow.  These stands will have wheels on them.

Most of what is left to do is clean the walls in some of the rooms and some of the baseboard and the furniture.  The trouble with this mud is that you clean it and then you have to go back and clean in again and do that for several times before it finally goes away.  The good news is that we have a fresh layer of top soil on our yards.

The other good news is that Darren brought his friend, that is a whiz at electronics and has experience restoring electronics that have been in floods, to look at the TV at Margaret and Jack’s last night.  He believes that he can fix it.  It would be easier if he had schematics to work with but of course, they don’t give those out anymore.  I looked on line and wasn’t able to find any.  He says that we will just take a lot of pictures and draw a lot of lines and he will still be able to do it.  He didn’t look at mine but it is the same situation.

The back roads are dry now so I drove past the hog trap and the good news is that we didn’t have a hog in the trap.  There are big trees down all over the property and we have a lot of clean up to do all over the place.  The other good news is that the Yucca plants (I guess they are Yuccas) are blooming up around Jackie’s house.  These have a taller stem than the one at my house.

 

The other good news is that when I got out to take this picture, I killed at least 10 mosquitoes.  The bad news is that there are still a million of them still alive.