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Rain, Rain, Go Away
I never thought I'd see a day when I wished away the rain. Normally, I LOVE Portland's rain, but the roof here is leaking. Actually, it's more than leaking. It's sending water through the walls of this entire building. They're trying to find an emergency temporary fix.
Meanwhile, an architect just dropped by to take a look at my unit. He's sending over an electrical engineer to see if - and I quote - to see if it is habitable.
And so, I wait.
The weather forecast looks grim. As does my once lovely home.
This. Just. Sucks.
(updates posted below)
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A few random pictures from when rain and I were on better terms.
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Update:
1:10pm.
A quote from the electrical engineer who just inspected my circuit breakers.
"This all appears safe, but I may change my opinion..."
Great. And he got to see the place when it was sunny outside. It's a whole different ballgame in the rain.
This is what was happening outside my front door a few nights ago...
...and this is from last night in my bathroom.
Isn't that delicious?
I don't even want to know why the water in one bucket was yellow and the other was orange.
YUUUUUUUUUUCK.
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3:30pm.
Apparently, someone has changed their opinion on the circuit breakers.
If the roof isn't fixed - at least temporarily - before it starts to rain again, water will almost certainly flow down through the wall with my circuit breakers again. There's no reason to believe otherwise, since yesterday's light rain was enough to cause that to happen.
So... if that happens again, PGE has to be called in to shut off the power.
And I...
...?
Well, I honestly don't know.
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::::: | Posted Thursday, Nov 09 2006 at 1:18 PM
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Hydra said:
I'm sending you good thoughts. I hope that all goes well for you and the rain/apt. saga.
::::: | Posted November 9, 2006 9:24 PM
Mari said:
This is my keeping my fingers crossed for you. Every time it starts raining again, I wonder how you and your apartment are faring...
Let me know if there is anything I can do to help -- I have cat-friendly crash space available :)
::::: | Posted November 10, 2006 7:46 AM
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