[Public-List] Setback with Touch Wood

[Andre Ballowe]

Sorry to here of the cold plight.

Being here in the often slighted state of California,  by me as well, it
does feel good though,  in a sightly ha ha vein, to be enjoying such nice
weather and appling my 4th coat of varnish on the rails this week.
Here is to counting the day's until June.
On Jan 10, 2014 7:15 PM, "daniel joseph walker" <dsailormon at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> So do u do Chicago?
>
>
> 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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