As are many of you in the Rain, we too are experiencing strong storms these last few days. Actually, if truth be told May has not been a very dry month thus far.
Perhaps those of us who scoffed at the "World is coming to an end Sunday, May 22nd at 6:00 pm" should revamp our convictions.
For those of you who have had far worse than our thunder, lightning, winds, rain & hail--in NO WAY is this making light of your terrible weather events.
Today it was to have been a warm [70s] type day until about this time tonight [7:30 pm];
someone forgot to tell the weather that was the plan. the Red boxes covered the national map from the SW right up to the Central Mid West which includes MI as well as OH, IL, IN. among other close states. Before coming down to go online, I saw that at that time [ 6:45 - 7:00 pm] three tornadoes were spotted or seen-on-ground in Ohio.
For a while it did seem like one of those 'Disaster SyFy Movies"--dark clouds, roiling and folding back into themselves. lightning and thunder [in the distance--you know lightning---count 1001-1002-1003, etc--Thunder clap = distance from you/ house].
This time I did not even see any lightning, but a Thunder Clap so loud that our lights flickered & the House shook.
That usually means that some house nearby had been struck. It has happened before; It will happen again.
The last two times this took place, the house to our due East on our side street Nocera was struck ]; their house has a non-used aerial on the right hand side of the roof; The house is a colonial that sits on a two-lot parcel.
Last year, it took out part of the connection to the chimney, roof shingles, theie deco tree, & sheered off two limbs from 2 of our trees as it moved along a diagonal Rt to Lt. They left the aerial on the roof because they had never used it and it was not connected to anything inside. OK ! Not for me--but perhaps I am too taken by nature & the effects thereof when it is churned up.
So, both of us knowingly stated, well they got hit again it seems; or one other colonial 4 houses to their North on the same street.
Never did we consider that maybe this time WE got hit.
Will check tomorrow to see---still pouring rain, thundering & altogether way too wet out there.
The reason that I mention this fact [that it could have been our home] is that the Italians who built this great house, placed three very strange decoration upon the chimney which is wider than most as it functions for two fireplaces. These look like gargoyles to me==free form gargoyles, but gargoyles just the same. Hope they did not get hit, further hope that they did not do damage to the roof as this is the 3rd roof in 15 years--don't ask.
So, instead of sitting here all pompous & smartaleckly, perhaps we will be the talk of the neighborhood tomorrow. You know the: "Why didn't they remove those things when they put on the new roof[s] and painted and replaced the sofits with siding, or when they glazed the bricks-[boy are we the show-offs.]
Well, I won't begrudge anyone from those feelings IF we did get hit.
We knew those creatures were there;
We commented upon them often;
We never thought to remove them as we were doing all the other outside upgrades;
So, If we did get a 'jolt' this storm--we deserve it.
Will go out tomorrow and take a look; but then severe thunder storms are on the predicted weather, so maybe this will take another passing of a day. Need to also check the 20' Flag pole too--that is some tall "lightning rod"
Some times it seems that we need a slap up-side the head to straighten us up;
Don't mind the slap ting;
Don't want to have to fix a chimney and roof.
Perhaps, tomorrow will show us the truth--but then, the question will be "do we remove those "Gargoyles" or not" ??
[photo below is winter 2010-old storm doors, but you can see the Chimney Gargoyles
Stay Safe out there.
Stay Dry.
[Check what it presently upon Your roof top]
5 /26/11: All's well that End's well
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