[Public-List] Setback with Touch Wood

[Andre Ballowe]

I'm in the Bay Area.....


*Andre Ballowe*
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On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net> wrote:

> 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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