NWI INGO General Post Part 18 - Legal now!!

[Snapdragon]

One of our tomato plants split in half, but they have fungus anyway and weren't going to last the season. The cherry tomatoes all blew off.

 

[Old Bear]

It blew by here a little bit ago.....high wind...sheets of rain...then it was over.

 

[Ballstater98]

I guess I'll see how well my landscape fabric will hold up. I had 1 more flower garden to finish when the wife texted me to pick up the kid from preschool because she's stuck in Schererville. Guess the rain will pack down everything raked up.

 

[HoughMade]

Under this tree is my driveway, several other of my trees, my antique hay mower and my antique plow.

 

[Ballstater98]

Under this tree is my driveway, several other of my trees, my antique hay mower and my antique plow.

2020, the perpetual kick in the nuts.

 

[Old Bear]

Under this tree is my driveway, several other of my trees, my antique hay mower and my antique plow.

That sucks!

 

[actaeon277]

At least it's not the house, or a human.

 

[HoughMade]

At least it's not the house, or a human.

Indeed!

For scale, the tree has a diameter of 3.5 to 4 feet about 3 feet off the ground.

I drove home all peeved and expecting to spend thousands. I had to re-route 3 times to get home. When I got home, one neighbor was already there with his chainsaw, diving in. Right after I got home, the other neighbor showed up with his chainsaw, his son and his son’s father-in-law. I changed and got my chainsaw and my sons and we got to it. We got everything on the ground and cut to manageable sizes by the time we lost the light. there are a couple of hangers and the trunk needs to come down, but in about 2 hours, we got an amazing amount of work done.

Good neighbors with good chainsaws can’t be beat!

 

[actaeon277]

Indeed!

For scale, the tree has a diameter of 3.5 to 4 feet about 3 feet off the ground.

I drove home all peeved and expecting to spend thousands. I had to re-route 3 times to get home. When I got home, one neighbor was already there with his chainsaw, diving in. Right after I got home, the other neighbor showed up with his chainsaw, his son and his son’s father-in-law. I changed and got my chainsaw and my sons and we got to it. We got everything on the ground and cut to manageable sizes by the time we lost the light. there are a couple of hangers and the trunk needs to come down, but in about 2 hours, we got an amazing amount of work done.

Good neighbors with good chainsaws can’t be beat!

Buy them some beer.
But make sure they're done with the chainsaws first.

 

[Ballstater98]

Nothing like coming home to good neighbor deeds. I came home exhausted once after a big snow storm only to see my property completely cleared. I was so happy and relieved. I'm always trying to pay it forward.

 

[1775usmarine]

Nothing like coming home to good neighbor deeds. I came home exhausted once after a big snow storm only to see my property completely cleared. I was so happy and relieved. I'm always trying to pay it forward.

When did we skip fall? Was I in a coma?

 

[chef larry]

My son in Portage still has his power out since 5:00 this evening.

 

[jedi]

Errie drive to chiraqi today.
Entire sections of the highway have no lights, no power to the billboards, no lights on the side streets next to highway.

Traffic was light like usual. Unlike the last riots where they had barracks on the exit ramps this time they have 2 to 3 state salt trucks plus 1 to 2 state troopers card at each of the exit ramps from an exit before Chinatown to not sure how far north.

Downtown itself there was more looting again last night. The streets are quiet now and just 1 or 2 vehicles jedi saw.
In any case let's see how today goes.

Once the sun is up it's all ok.

 

[larcat]

They did the streets and san truck thing last time as well in the loop. Bridges up or down?

Errie drive to chiraqi today.
Entire sections of the highway have no lights, no power to the billboards, no lights on the side streets next to highway.

Traffic was light like usual. Unlike the last riots where they had barracks on the exit ramps this time they have 2 to 3 state salt trucks plus 1 to 2 state troopers card at each of the exit ramps from an exit before Chinatown to not sure how far north.

Downtown itself there was more looting again last night. The streets are quiet now and just 1 or 2 vehicles jedi saw.
In any case let's see how today goes.

Once the sun is up it's all ok.

 

[larcat]

Genuinely heart warming

Indeed!

For scale, the tree has a diameter of 3.5 to 4 feet about 3 feet off the ground.

I drove home all peeved and expecting to spend thousands. I had to re-route 3 times to get home. When I got home, one neighbor was already there with his chainsaw, diving in. Right after I got home, the other neighbor showed up with his chainsaw, his son and his son’s father-in-law. I changed and got my chainsaw and my sons and we got to it. We got everything on the ground and cut to manageable sizes by the time we lost the light. there are a couple of hangers and the trunk needs to come down, but in about 2 hours, we got an amazing amount of work done.

Good neighbors with good chainsaws can’t be beat!

 

[larcat]

Power was out here in my bit of Gary till sometime in the AM. Everything back to humming along now though.

 

[repeter1977]

Well, didn't go in yesterday due to riots. Was nice having an extra day off, sadly couldn't telework as I didn't have the equipment. Thankfully we got everything in before the storm. And we've been watching shark week for like the last two weeks.

 

[Ballstater98]

That's going to take a while.

 

[defaultdotxbe]

Halfway through the 15th hour and still no power in my neighborhood. And to add insult to injury the gaskets in my generator dry rotted so instead of starting it leaked gas all over my driveway. Fortunately there was not much rain so the basement remains dry. Gonna look into a standby generator like i bought for my grandmother a few years ago lol

 

[larcat]

If you find a good place please post it up here. I've tried a couple times to get a quote from NWI generator but no dice. We've got several big aquariums and a drop freezer (which were not gunna fill till we have back up power) so we could really use one.

Halfway through the 15th hour and still no power in my neighborhood. And to add insult to injury the gaskets in my generator dry rotted so instead of starting it leaked gas all over my driveway. Fortunately there was not much rain so the basement remains dry. Gonna look into a standby generator like i bought for my grandmother a few years ago lol