Monsoon season already?
Jun 16th, 2005 by Accidental Thinker
I KNEW it was bad luck to sign a contract for our new roof (thanks to last summer’s hurricanes) on the first day of the new hurricane season. We’ve had nothing but problems since then. Our fashionable blue tarp, which has been quietly doing its protective duty for the last 10 months, began to fail almost immediately—as evidenced by the portion of ceiling in our garage that is about to cave in. The mission of failure concluded today in grand fashion. I arrived home after work to find that the tarp now exists in shreds all over our front yard, thanks to a monsoon of a thunderstorm. Did you know that shredded tarp looks like Easter grass? I am now the possessor of this fascinating bit of firsthand knowledge. Despite this, it could have been worse. I had to take an alternate route home, because my street was blocked by the fire trucks that were tending to a house that caught fire after being struck by lightning. And further blocked by the news crews that were filming it. I actually felt fortunate that all I found was shredded tarp and a slightly flooded garage. The new roof can’t get here soon enough.
So there’s my bit of excitement for the day.
