Another hell-uv-a-day. Shannon was hopping inside the house with helpers (including a design client and her friend) washing and cleansing things. Countless very helpful Mormons - holy crap - Sometimes I was turning down help for lack of a suitable job. Mike yarded out some hardwood and we opened up some more walls on the lower main floor chasing wet drywall. I promised Mark I wouldn't call on him today but I had too and he came. I should be up to a case of scotch for that man but I know he won't take it. I think we got that sorted as mitigating mould issues is job one. Myron and Janet returned to lend a hand after their morning shift - your humour under the circumstances always welcome. Once again my first helper of the day was yet another hiking partner, Wietse, to lend a very welcome hand. This whole thing is a lot like landscaping, sometimes you have too much manpower and sometimes you have too much work but a core of people I know and love sure makes things happen - extra help plus water and sandwiches at every turn a bonus!
Later in the day I opened a section of fence and my neighbor, also a landscaper/excavator, swung in with his mini-hoe and scraped out the turf area plus the silt all the help was yarding out of the beds by hand. Seems trivial, with all that has been going on, to care about my garden but it is great to get that sorted. Of course it made a major mess and I might need to resod. We'll see how it turns out. Getting rid of the silt was a big deal, I don't even care at the moment that my deck still has a pitch to it thanks to the heaved piles, just pretend you're on a ship. So many projects.
Doing better mentally though. Got my electrical signed off on by an electrician so Fortis can 'energize' me tomorrow. No more generator! So I'll be hanging out waiting for them to arrive and running down the more important items on the todo list. Shoring up a header in the basement (because the framing was removed), pulling some grade outside, tidying up.... fun times.
Sunday, July 7, 2013
Day five - flood rehab
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"holy crap"?! FUNNY!!!
So happy to hear you got on the work order list for the Mormon helping hands. 1300 showed up in High River yeaterday...ox in the mire and all that!
We didn't specifically ask for help, people would just show up and ask if they could help. Four guys from Calgary did some shoveling and barrowing in the garden (while I rehearsed how to do CPR in my head) and the Mormon gang helped Mike with the hardwood and washed the front sidewalk a bit. In theory many people should be having this work done by restoration companies but time is of the essence and getting things dried out is important.
1300, incidentally, is a tenth the population of High River. Plus many many others (we mostly had Calgarians)
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