Stormin' here in the mountains.

[DemoTex]

Good! It will test my $3000 roof repair. Perfect timing, in fact. Could get scary, though. For the dogs, I mean. But they will soon be in the bed with me (if they stay dry).

[burrowowl]

1. You from

around El Paso, the free city? Not really Texas.

[supernova]

2. Wow! Storms in the

mountains already? The weatherman here said it wouldn't get here in the Triangle until mid-morning tomorrow.

[Cush]

3. \oops

[DemoTex]

4. Cool. What was his callsign?

I flew SP-2Es, mostly at night on the Ho Chi Mihn trail. Electronic counter-warfare. I was Crazy Cat 911 and Cat's Paw 911. When we went tactical into Laos the callsign changed. I still can't talk about that. Rummy might get me!


Two turnin', two burnin'!

[DemoTex]

5. Oops! Where did your post go?

Is Rummy monitoring?

[Cush]

6. Sent it as a PM

thats what i meant to do, but wasn't thinking

Lol

But as for his call sign, no clue

[Skittles]

7. are y'all talking in code?

I can't follow this thread.

HOWDY DEMO :hi:

[DemoTex]

8. No code (yet!)

HI SKITTLES! How are things north of Dallas? I've been up here in the NC mountains for six weeks now. Painting the house (interior) and nursing the big toe I broke in Dallas over six weeks ago. I am still in exquisite pain. I move like an 85 year-old man! But I am painting the house, and loving it!



The mountain house, soon to be our full-time residence.

[TennesseeWalker]

9. I love your house.

I'm in Johnson City, TN...about an hour up I-26 from you! Howdy neighbor! It's storming here in the Unaka Mountain Range too!

[DemoTex]

11. Thanks, Tennessee neighhbor.

Over 1.5 inches in the rain gage in the last hour. It's coming down at at least 2-inches per hour now. The good news is the roof fix seems to be holding (at $3K it better!).

[Cush]

10. dude

that house kicks ass. Can I move in? Lol

[DemoTex]

12. Hi Cush ...

Get my response by PM?

[DemoTex]

13. Half inch in the last 30 minutes!

Over 2 inches in the gage now. Pouring and roaring. Scary, but no thunder and lightning yet.

I disconnected all the ham radio gear. I set up a 2-meter portable antenna and have my 2-meter HT on charge. I can hit at least three VHF/UHF repeaters from here in the wilds, even with the HT on low-power. That is the life-line.

It is such a good communications system here in the NC mountains (I can occasionally talk to Atlanta on 2-meters; always to Greenville, Anderson, and Brevard), that Mrs/Dr DemoTex is going to get here technicians license (for VHF/UHF phone priviledges).

[DemoTex]

14. Just checked my very accurate rain guage ...

It's over 2.7 inches now (the 0.7 coming in the last half hour).

[DemoTex]

15. The good news is ...

The roof is FIXED! Not a drop. Anybody need a good roofer in western NC?

BTW: We were joking about my remote location in the wilds. I mentioned Eric Rudolph. My roofer, an elegant gentleman, reached into his wallet and pulled out a business card. A card of an FBI agent. Seems that Eric worked here in the Brevard area for quite a while as a roofer and carpenter. And we thought he was deep in the wilds. Naw!

[DemoTex]

16. 3.7" now ...

One inch in the last 55 minutes! Pouring, and the main line is still to the west.

[DemoTex]

17. NWS says ...

PERIODS OF MODERATE TO TORRENTIAL RAIN WILL CONTINUE OVER MUCH OF
THE NC MOUNTAINS THROUGH 2 AM. AREAS NEAR BREVARD...HIGHLANDS...
HENDERSONVILLE AND FLETCHER CAN EXPECT THE HEAVIEST RAIN. RAINFALL
TOTALS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL
HOURS. ALSO...WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH GUSTS OVER
30 MPH.

Yep, I agree with the NWS on this one.

[woofless]

18. It's just bucketing down over here on the other side too.

We are in the N. Cascades foothills and it has poured for the last two days. Snow on the higher hills.

[Punkingal]

19. DemoTex.....

you live in my dream house!!!! Except mine will be log...I can't really tell from the picture if yours is log or timber. Also, mine will be across the border in Tennessee. Don't you LOVE being in the mountains, though?

[DemoTex]

21. Punkingal, mine is 8" square logs with post-and-beam construction.

The interior gables look like timber-frame. We want to build a timber-frame guest house for my wife to use as her southern office.

[Punkingal]

22. It looks like a great house.....

and my sons build log homes, so I have seen a lot of them. They built one for Steven Segal at Mt. Shasta in California.

[DemoTex]

24. Sons in the business! What luck.

Actually, I would go with a log-timber frame hybrid. The interior of my house, being log/post-and-beam with very high timbered gables, has enough of the timber-frame look to satisfy me.

One word of warning. If you ever have a house with timbers and natural trim near drywall, get the best painter in the land to paint the drywall. Paint slopped on natural timbers will not come off without major, and expensive, effort. That's why I am here right now painting the interior. I am using miles and miles of 2" painter's masking tape.

[Punkingal]

30. As it happens....

painting is my hubby's big talent, but I will pass that along to him for future reference. I am going to have my log home in the Tennessee mountains one of these days!

[peacebuzzard]

20. Hi DemoTex, long time! Lots of bumps on landing....

in Knoxville this eve. about 4 hours ago. As a matter of fact thru Cleveland too. It is raining here too. My collie (outside rescue) is in his house and my 3 inside rescue pups are in and happy as heck to see me after so many, too many nights gone....This area has just flooded profusely this year. Good to read about you and others on DU. Back to NYC w/o my laptop again in a day or so. (Got tired of lugging my 9 pounder on the subways and buses)

[DemoTex]

23. Last word on last night's storm.

At 7:30 this morning, my 6" rain gage was full to the brim. One of my neighbors said he measured 7.25-inches in 12 hours. It was unbelievable. But my roof repair held! The two-mile long gravel road into here held up well, too. Max-nix, the road grader is parked down the way, in the middle of the semi-annual road grading. They will fix the minor water damage of last night.

BTW: My phones were out this morning. Cell phone was dead, too. I made a quick call on the 2-meter ham repeater, and within the hour the phone company was out here! That ham radio call actually got phone service restored to 45 households by 10 am.

[Individualist]

29. Flooded on the other side

of the mountains. I live in the Tri-Cities (TN) area where flooding occurred earlier today. Two people in our area drowned. :(

[DemoTex]

31. Bummer, I saw that

That's the problem in the mountains. The river bottoms get clobbered by the runoff. Sorry for your communities' problems now. Are you high and dry?

[Individualist]

32. Relatively high and dry,

thanks for asking. Rain stopped around 3 pm, so the worst is behind us.

[DemoTex]

33. Good!

The sun will feel extra good tommorow.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

25. Must be some damn storm, cause it is hittin us in NYC now

Real big mother.

[DemoTex]

26. It was a SOB last night!

Sorry it's clobbering NYC now. If it rains there, like it rained here, LaGuardia will be closed all day tomorrow. So will Amtrak and probabably the subway system. Plan ahead, as they say.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

27. I live on a hill

Seen too many floods in my time.

[DemoTex]

28. Good, because read this:

NJZ002>006-011-NYZ067>076-200530-
BERGEN NJ-BRONX NY-EASTERN PASSAIC NJ-ESSEX NJ-HUDSON NJ-
KINGS (BROOKLYN) NY-NEW YORK (MANHATTAN) NY-NORTHERN WESTCHESTER NY-
ORANGE NY-PUTNAM NY-QUEENS NY-RICHMOND (STATEN IS.) NY-ROCKLAND NY-
SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER NY-UNION NJ-WESTERN PASSAIC NJ-
1030 PM EST WED NOV 19 2003


A LARGE AREA OF RAIN SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE MOVING ACROSS THE REGION
FROM SOUTH TO NORTH THROUGH 2 AM. THE RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO BE
MODERATE...SOMETIMES HEAVY. RAINFALL RATES OF 1/4 TO 1/2 INCH PER
HOUR DURING THAT TIME WILL LIKELY CAUSE PONDING ON ROADWAYS. THE RAIN
MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID
THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS.

$$

Latest off the NWS wire for ZIP 10001. The NWS radar looked like the leading edge of the rain is only halfway out Long Island. That makes, say, Seaford exactly where we were this time last night. However, it doesn't look as heavy as what moved through here. Good luck. Stay dry.