[Public-List] Setback with Touch Wood

[Gordon Laco]

Where in California are you?   I sit on the board of Tall Ships America and will be attending the conference & AGM in San Diego Feb 2-5

Gord Surprise #426

On 2014-01-10, at 10:27 PM, Andre Ballowe <efficientair at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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