[Public-List] Setback with Touch Wood

[Dominic Amann]

Ouch. So sorry to hear that. Best of luck.
 On Jan 10, 2014 8:34 PM, "Gordon Laco" <mainstay at csolve.net> wrote:

> Hello gang -
>
> I¹m firmly ensconced here in my booth at the Toronto International Boat
> Show....if any of you come to the show I¹d like to see you.    All¹s well
> and I¹m looking forward to the week but for one thing.  Earlier this week
> we
> had a snow storm in Midland like I¹ve never seen.  Four feet of snow fell
> over two days.  I was looking at the thickness of the snow cap on our
> house,
> and then I remembered Touch Wood in her temporary shed.
>
> Did I make those undressed 2x4 roof beams well enough?  Did I put enough
> bracing into the structure?   Well the answer is no.  The shed collapsed
> and
> TW is beneath several tons of ice, snow, and the wreckage of the building.
> I couldn¹t get to her to see how bad things are, but I could see that the
> roof is completely down.  I hope that so long as she didn¹t fall over, she
> may have survived.  However all my tools are buried in the snow.  I
> couldn¹t
> dig into the ruin because I had to get here to the show....and guess what.
> There¹s going to be a thaw with heavy rain this weekend.... Then a deep
> freeze again.  I reckon whatever shape she¹s in she¹ll have to bear till
> March when things start warming up.
>
> I am so glad her mast wasn¹t in the shed.... I can¹t believe this has
> happened.
>
> Gord #426 Surprise
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