My park just got hit by a massive dust devil

We had a hard rain for about two hours, and the patch survived. It wasn't a monsoon, but it reached a downpour a few times

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We had a hard rain for about two hours, and the patch survived. It wasn't a monsoon, but it reached a downpour a few times
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I like how definitions change depending on where you live. If you live in a real house and the roof gets damaged you have it repaired. If you live in a luxury tin can you get out the Gorilla Tape and see if it leaks the next time it rains. What do the non luxury tin cans do, regular crappy duct tape? Without duct tape there would be no Tin Can living.

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We had a hard rain for about two hours, and the patch survived. It wasn't a monsoon, but it reached a downpour a few times
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I like how definitions change depending on where you live. If you live in a real house and the roof gets damaged you have it repaired. If you live in a luxury tin can you get out the Gorilla Tape and see if it leaks the next time it rains. What do the non luxury tin cans do, regular crappy duct tape? Without duct tape there would be no Tin Can living.
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As I understand, this is the carport, and it received minor damage. While it is annoying and noticeable, it's about as significant as a minor rip in an awning over a patio - it doesn't affect the dwelling.

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We had a hard rain for about two hours, and the patch survived. It wasn't a monsoon, but it reached a downpour a few times
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I like how definitions change depending on where you live. If you live in a real house and the roof gets damaged you have it repaired. If you live in a luxury tin can you get out the Gorilla Tape and see if it leaks the next time it rains. What do the non luxury tin cans do, regular crappy duct tape? Without duct tape there would be no Tin Can living.
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As I understand, this is the carport, and it received minor damage. While it is annoying and noticeable, it's about as significant as a minor rip in an awning over a patio - it doesn't affect the dwelling.
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I was afraid the roof might have sustained some damage, but it held up to the rain

Hey here's an idea, speaking of "tin cans." A steel food can is a source of good steel. It doesn't have pinholes in it and usually has a corrosion resistant coating on it, because any kind of porosity could cause food spoilage and a health emergency.

So maybe take a big metal can lid, like from a tomato can, rough up the shiny surface so paint will stick, then stick the lid over the hole, coated side up shiny side down, with some strong adhesive or white silicone rubber. Then you can use a drill and pop rivets to make it a stronger repair if you want, and pop rivets will not require access to the top of the roof, you can do that all from the underside. Then paint it same color as the rest and you are done.

Methinks you are overthinking the situation. It's a two-inch hole in a 72-foot carport

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Methinks you are overthinking the situation. It's a two-inch hole in a 72-foot carport
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72 feet carport?? Is this a community parking carport or somthing that covers a trailer? That would one be one hell of a carport for a parking area on a single-family home.

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It runs the length of my house, on both sides. Most of the homes in the park have them. The door in the picture is almost the midpoint
A lot of people park their RVs and a car under the carport, but my screened in porch doesn't give me the space to park an RV in my driveway However, I had empty lots on either side of me and the park allowed my friend to stay on one for $50 for a week, with the understanding it was a one week deal

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We had a hard rain for about two hours, and the patch survived. It wasn't a monsoon, but it reached a downpour a few times
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I like how definitions change depending on where you live. If you live in a real house and the roof gets damaged you have it repaired. If you live in a luxury tin can you get out the Gorilla Tape and see if it leaks the next time it rains. What do the non luxury tin cans do, regular crappy duct tape? Without duct tape there would be no Tin Can living.
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As I understand, this is the carport, and it received minor damage. While it is annoying and noticeable, it's about as significant as a minor rip in an awning over a patio - it doesn't affect the dwelling.
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I was afraid the roof might have sustained some damage, but it held up to the rain
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Gorilla Tape is amazing stuff. In the park where you live there have to be repair trucks that have nothing but Gorilla Tape to repair everything.

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It runs the length of my house, on both sides. Most of the homes in the park have them. The door in the picture is almost the midpoint
A lot of people park their RVs and a car under the carport, but my screened in porch doesn't give me the space to park an RV in my driveway However, I had empty lots on either side of me and the park allowed my friend to stay on one for $50 for a week, with the understanding it was a one week deal
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The place where you have the barbecue grill is a carport? What? How could you possibly get a car under there. I'm totally confused. Looks like a covered patio area to me. If this is a carport it's the worst one I've ever seen.

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It runs the length of my house, on both sides. Most of the homes in the park have them. The door in the picture is almost the midpoint
A lot of people park their RVs and a car under the carport, but my screened in porch doesn't give me the space to park an RV in my driveway However, I had empty lots on either side of me and the park allowed my friend to stay on one for $50 for a week, with the understanding it was a one week deal
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Thats makes sense. I have a 50x50 with a cement floor. I think the peak of the roof is like 25 feet, but I'm not 100% sure. I just know there are around 16 lights at the top I want to change out to LED, and I don't know exactly how im going to do it. I was thinking about putting a ladder on top of an RV, perhaps. On second thought, I'll probably get and light bulb changer with a pole extension and then stand on top of an RV.

Please be aware that most carport roofs are not strong enough to support even a light person standing on them.
The park has a lot for oversized RVs and Motor Homes. They used to be uncovered, but we upgraded to solar panel roofs in all of our parking lots

I was going to suggest it be fixed with a sheet of newspaper and that stuff the guy who made a boat out newspaper used.

A man outside of Seattle was arrested after he cut down 142 trees on his property, in order to have a better view

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A man outside of Seattle was arrested after he cut down 142 trees on his property, in order to have a better view
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Can you show me a link to where somebody was arrested for this?

FYI, I believe they cut those trees down in a protected Park and a critical slide area without permits. I believe the family claims they did it for their own safety, as one tree caused over $100,000 to their home. They believe they had permission to do so via the hotline. They claim they have made many complaints to King County who never came out to address the problem they faced. So they hired someone to solve the problem.

Reminds me of the infamous Lake Forest Massacre when A-Team actor Mr. T got in trouble for cutting down over 100 trees on his property in the Chicago suburb of Lake Forest.

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Lowe's sells a small sheet of tarp for $10. But again, no climbing on the roof, so that's out.

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Lowe's sells a small sheet of tarp for $10. But again, no climbing on the roof, so that's out.
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I get 10X10 tarps from auctions for a fraction of that. You'd be amazed at what one can assemble with a couple of tarps and pallets.
It appears the gutter on the other side of the house may be clogged and the water cascades at a very inconvenient place, so I'm going to have someone on the roof this week.

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Lowe's sells a small sheet of tarp for $10. But again, no climbing on the roof, so that's out.
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I get 10X10 tarps from auctions for a fraction of that. You'd be amazed at what one can assemble with a couple of tarps and pallets.
It appears the gutter on the other side of the house may be clogged and the water cascades at a very inconvenient place, so I'm going to have someone on the roof this week.
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Are these tarps and pallets for the bums to build their shantyhouses?

I'd call them shelters. Shanties are more permanent. I'm not sure you can consider shanty dwellers as homeless.

Good luck with that carport.

A friend of mine also recently had a bit of difficulty from a wind event (called “a tornado”) in a major Midwestern city, where I happen to have a second home and spend a lot of time. My property is about six miles away and only suffered an annoying days-long power outage, but it carved out about an eight mile long and half mile wide path over on her side of town, mostly tearing through what’s generally known as the historic heart of the black community here.

When I was finally able to get into the neighborhood to check on her, I discovered that along with a few thousands of others in “North City” it had made a little bit of an unsightly mess at my friend’s place, along with the others in surrounding blocks that are (were) nearly all sturdy 120+ year old buildings with exterior walls made of three layers of bricks…




When I finally found her, somehow not physically injured, she described how she had to be rescued, after some people in the neighborhood finally heard her screaming for help, and managed to clear enough of the debris by hand that she was able to crawl out from under it. Including a refrigerator (originally plucked from God only knows where) that apparently was dropped out of the sky right onto her only possible escape route. I don’t think Gorilla Tape will do the job on the pile of bricks at her old joint, and for the time being she’s couch surfing with folks whose places are not quite so messy.

If there’s been any psychic price for her, she doesn’t and likely won’t ever show any hint of it. Though she’s a petite young lady who prolly doesn’t even weigh 90 pounds, she is not at all a shy emotionally fragile type of gal. If she had wiggled loose while it was still tearing everything down and terrorizing everybody, she’d be likely to shake her diminutive fist at it and demand that it “better damn well get da-fook outta here right friggin now and quit messin’ with my neighbors or I’ma gonna kick yo ugly uninvited azz six ways to Sunday you filthy rotten no-good mudder-forking ‘nado!”

But even after I’ve been back through there quite a bit over the last several weeks, doing my own little version of a BillRyan distribution “hobby” from what I already had stashed away and getting stale in my DrawingDead In-Case-Of-Apocolypse spare-room Bat-Cave, it’s weird what random mental images still end up sticking top of mind. One was so impressively surreal to me, that I put aside my vow not to be acting like a useless disaster tourist, and took pictures of it, as I was stunned to discover this tornado thingy apparently appreciates music.

Because while trying to assassinate my dear friend by throwing a large kitchen appliance at her, it was also polite enough to randomly drop a piano onto the street a few blocks away from her (now former) place, miraculously depositing it right side up & somehow gently enough to keep it totally intact, save for the need to dust off some pieces of plaster and whatnot. Mr. Nado just left it there on St Louis Ave without the bench, but in “The Ville” neighborhood it would absolutely have to be a jazz piano, so it’s probably accustomed to improvisational playing without any sheet music while standing up…



After a few weeks the National Guard finally scooped it up as they went through with a lot of ginormous heavy equipment clearing debris to get almost all the streets fully open & passable, but I doubt I’ll ever forget that damn piano.

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Glad your friend is ok. Damage looks awful.

The city and the University are sponsoring a fireworks show tonight at Sentinel Mountain. My park is located at the southwest base of the mountain, and this area has been designated a frozen zone from 7:30 until 9:45, with no traffic except for official vehicles. I was out of town last year, so I'm looking forward to them this year. I doubt they'll compare to Macy's, or even the Vegas show, but I'm looking forward to them anyway.

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The city and the University are sponsoring a fireworks show tonight at Sentinel Mountain. My park is located at the southwest base of the mountain, and this area has been designated a frozen zone from 7:30 until 9:45, with no traffic except for official vehicles. I was out of town last year, so I'm looking forward to them this year. I doubt they'll compare to Macy's, or even the Vegas show, but I'm looking forward to them anyway.
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I’m generally an anti-fireworks guy. I’ve worked many July 3/4 nights and have seen the gruesome results from fireworks. Plus pets cower due to the repeated booms. My Yorkie seemed pretty acclimated last night though.

Some love them. Some couldn’t care less. Some hate them.

I love a well-done professional fireworks show.. Last nights Tucson show started at 9:01 and ended at 9:27. It was nice, especially the last few minutes.
Some fireworks are legal in Arizona, but not loud explosives like M80s, nor can you sell anything that flies or roman candles. Driving around,
I saw lots of fountain-type fireworks, without the noise.I'm used to.

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The city and the University are sponsoring a fireworks show tonight at Sentinel Mountain. My park is located at the southwest base of the mountain, and this area has been designated a frozen zone from 7:30 until 9:45, with no traffic except for official vehicles. I was out of town last year, so I'm looking forward to them this year. I doubt they'll compare to Macy's, or even the Vegas show, but I'm looking forward to them anyway.
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I’m generally an anti-fireworks guy. I’ve worked many July 3/4 nights and have seen the gruesome results from fireworks. Plus pets cower due to the repeated booms. My Yorkie seemed pretty acclimated last night though.

Some love them. Some couldn’t care less. Some hate them.
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I was in a part of town this morning that I rarely visit during business hours, and I was surprised to see a bunch of cards in a parking lot that is usually empty. Then I saw a sign saying 'Open 24 Hours' on the July 4th weekend. Intrigued, I pulled into the lot and discovered it was an Urgent Care.

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The city and the University are sponsoring a fireworks show tonight at Sentinel Mountain. My park is located at the southwest base of the mountain, and this area has been designated a frozen zone from 7:30 until 9:45, with no traffic except for official vehicles. I was out of town last year, so I'm looking forward to them this year. I doubt they'll compare to Macy's, or even the Vegas show, but I'm looking forward to them anyway.
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I’m generally an anti-fireworks guy. I’ve worked many July 3/4 nights and have seen the gruesome results from fireworks. Plus pets cower due to the repeated booms. My Yorkie seemed pretty acclimated last night though.

Some love them. Some couldn’t care less. Some hate them.
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I am not a fan either of fireworks.

When I was in Vegas there was a community center right behind the block wall to my backyard. They did a professional fireworks show there every year. I would hold a BBQ at my house and we could lay in the pool on our floats and watch the fireworks directly overhead. It did make me nervous that the fire department was there every year spraying my trees and bushes with water.

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I am not a fan either of fireworks.

When I was in Vegas there was a community center right behind the block wall to my backyard. They did a professional fireworks show there every year. I would hold a BBQ at my house and we could lay in the pool on our floats and watch the fireworks directly overhead. It did make me nervous that the fire department was there every year spraying my trees and bushes with water.
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I intensely dislike fireworks. I haven't seen a fireworks display probably since the 90s. They're too loud, the places where they have them are way too crowded and it takes forever to get your car out, and every fireworks display is like every other one you've ever seen in your life. Extremely boring. Watch one on YouTube it's just as good as being there in person, that is to say it's just as boring. The fireworks are from a time when entertainment was few and far between. It was when the biggest event of the year was the circus coming to town. It has outlived its entertainment value by about 75 years.

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The city and the University are sponsoring a fireworks show tonight at Sentinel Mountain. My park is located at the southwest base of the mountain, and this area has been designated a frozen zone from 7:30 until 9:45, with no traffic except for official vehicles. I was out of town last year, so I'm looking forward to them this year. I doubt they'll compare to Macy's, or even the Vegas show, but I'm looking forward to them anyway.
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I’m generally an anti-fireworks guy. I’ve worked many July 3/4 nights and have seen the gruesome results from fireworks. Plus pets cower due to the repeated booms. My Yorkie seemed pretty acclimated last night though.

Some love them. Some couldn’t care less. Some hate them.
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I saw plenty of guys with mullets and rusted pickups (with a mismatched color door) lighting off roman candles next to the oil refineries last night.

I got the heck out of town, just in case.

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The city and the University are sponsoring a fireworks show tonight at Sentinel Mountain. My park is located at the southwest base of the mountain, and this area has been designated a frozen zone from 7:30 until 9:45, with no traffic except for official vehicles. I was out of town last year, so I'm looking forward to them this year. I doubt they'll compare to Macy's, or even the Vegas show, but I'm looking forward to them anyway.
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I’m generally an anti-fireworks guy. I’ve worked many July 3/4 nights and have seen the gruesome results from fireworks. Plus pets cower due to the repeated booms. My Yorkie seemed pretty acclimated last night though.

Some love them. Some couldn’t care less. Some hate them.
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I am not a fan either of fireworks.

When I was in Vegas there was a community center right behind the block wall to my backyard. They did a professional fireworks show there every year. I would hold a BBQ at my house and we could lay in the pool on our floats and watch the fireworks directly overhead. It did make me nervous that the fire department was there every year spraying my trees and bushes with water.
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The Tucson FD and EMTs were well-positioned last night.

I only really enjoy setting off fireworks, not watching pro shows of them.

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Fireworks have been legal to own in Michigan for about 20 years but back in the '80s I used to go to Indiana almost every week and fireworks were legal there and I would bring them back and sell them to my friends. They would give me orders to fill and I would make a profit off of it.

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I only really enjoy setting off fireworks, not watching pro shows of them.
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Fireworks have been legal to own in Michigan for about 20 years but back in the '80s I used to go to Indiana almost every week and fireworks were legal there and I would bring them back and sell them to my friends. They would give me orders to fill and I would make a profit off of it.
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Which vendors did you go through?

I see Shelton has big stores in Porter and Fremont (and numerous other locations near state lines), and Crazy Kaplan is seemingly all over the Hammond/Gary area.

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I only really enjoy setting off fireworks, not watching pro shows of them.
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Fireworks have been legal to own in Michigan for about 20 years but back in the '80s I used to go to Indiana almost every week and fireworks were legal there and I would bring them back and sell them to my friends. They would give me orders to fill and I would make a profit off of it.
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Which vendors did you go through?

I see Shelton has big stores in Porter and Fremont (and numerous other locations near state lines), and Crazy Kaplan is seemingly all over the Hammond/Gary area.
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I don't remember. The only town I went through on the way back to Michigan was Middlebury because it was on the way from Shipshewana. It's where I bought all my liquor too because liquor was so much cheaper in Indiana. The place where I bought it was a local mom and pop liquor store and they did a huge Amish business through the back door. I'm standing there in line and a Amish guy comes in the screen door in the back and there's a paper bag with his name on it he grabs it and literally runs out the back door. I asked the clerk and he said the Amish keep him in business, they use the back door and brown paper bags because they want to hide it from their Amish buddies. Alcohol is such a problem among the Amish that they can now get drunk driving tickets in their horse drawn buggies. They have a crushingly boring lifestyle so they sneak off to the barn every so often and take a couple of hits off the Vodka bottle. A couple dozen times a day.

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I only really enjoy setting off fireworks, not watching pro shows of them.
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Fireworks have been legal to own in Michigan for about 20 years but back in the '80s I used to go to Indiana almost every week and fireworks were legal there and I would bring them back and sell them to my friends. They would give me orders to fill and I would make a profit off of it.
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Which vendors did you go through?

I see Shelton has big stores in Porter and Fremont (and numerous other locations near state lines), and Crazy Kaplan is seemingly all over the Hammond/Gary area.
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I don't remember. The only town I went through on the way back to Michigan was Middlebury because it was on the way from Shipshewana. It's where I bought all my liquor too because liquor was so much cheaper in Indiana. The place where I bought it was a local mom and pop liquor store and they did a huge Amish business through the back door. I'm standing there in line and a Amish guy comes in the screen door in the back and there's a paper bag with his name on it he grabs it and literally runs out the back door. I asked the clerk and he said the Amish keep him in business, they use the back door and brown paper bags because they want to hide it from their Amish buddies. Alcohol is such a problem among the Amish that they can now get drunk driving tickets in their horse drawn buggies. They have a crushingly boring lifestyle so they sneak off to the barn every so often and take a couple of hits off the Vodka bottle. A couple dozen times a day.
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Gotcha. I do see a "Stateline Fireworks" warehouse along there, but it seems to be newer than the suggested timeline. No idea if they built up as the venture succeeded, or if it's an unrelated concern.

I'm familiar enough with Amish alcohol use. A number of former colleagues were from Ohio, and had grand tales of their nights at parties out in some field.
Fortunately, being from Wisconsin... we have economical liquor without resorting to bootlegging.

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You can have my fireworks when you pry them from my cold dead fingers. Which are right over there by the sidewalk.

Wow, that sounds intense. Glad you made it inside just in time. Amazing how fast dust devils can hit with that kind of force hope the damage wasn’t too bad and your neighbor’s okay.