It's been cold, hard rain here for what seems like months. It's pounding on the roof above my head this instant. I expect all of California west of Tracey to slide into the sea.
I'm sure glad I had the sliding door (which leaked) replaced, and the flat roof tuned up. I bet roofers are charging by the minute about now.
Same here. This winter broke the record: Blew through about 4-1/2 cord of firewood. We are down to the last few sticks now. But I knew that this AGW was a joke so we already bought 5 cords for next season :-)
The cold wind is so bad that we often have the wood stove on full bore, the pellet stove cranking, plus the occasional blast from the central heat furnace. Needless to say, my wife wants to move. She dislikes winter, and so do I.
We had a Decra metal shingle roof installed. Very expensive but with theincreasingly harsh winter storms it was worth it.
What does a new sliding glass door cost with installation? Any preferred source? We have seven of those, good heavy duty stuff but single-pane. Not sure if it's worth it to invest in dual-pane. The numbers I've seen from window installers sounded almost like a rip-off.
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We did the one in the kitchen a couple of years ago, white vinyl with screens, installed, for about $3K.
The upstairs bedroom job was a lot worse. The whole upstairs deck had to be re-roofed, the sliding door replaced (double-glazed), all the skylights replaced, and the main house roof (flat tar and gravel) tuned up. About $12K. But it doesn't leak into the kitchen any more, which was hell on the sheetrock. Worth it.
It's still pouring. So much for warm-and-dry.
My cam is down (again!) in Truckee. I'm almost glad I can't see how much snow is on the deck.
I wouldn't mind 120F, in fact I really liked it in the Phoenix area in summer. However, if we move then it will be out of California, into a state with a biz-friendly administration and no fat pensions. Maybe somewhere in Keith's neck of the woods.
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Keith's "neck of the woods" is humid in summer :-( ...Jim Thompson
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We should just split California and leave all the politicians up north. The State of South Calif would be a nice place to live, just some rain, but not too cold. Around 60F right now.
It's ALL going to go away during the next big earthquake. Then Yuma will be an ocean resort ;-) ...Jim Thompson
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The island State of S.Ca would be fine. Actually, some area of central valley are below sea level. We just need a good big channel to bring in the sea water.
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Around here, the San Andreas is well offshore. It's a horizontal-slip fault, so we could get a lot of shaking but not much of a tsunami.
It actually leaves the land and heads out to sea at Mussel Rock, in Daly City. On Google Earth, you can follow the fault line south, running just west of I280. The long skinny reservoirs are subduction lakes along the fault.
The last couple of years weren't that bad. The first year was pretty brutal, perhaps because it was our first year and we moved down here in the middle of the Summer. I don't find it as bad as it was when I lived in IL. They have both miserable heat and humidity in the Summer and windy cold in the Winter. They also have Chicago.
No, the San Andreas run through San Francisco and San Jose. The SF segment has not break since 1906. The SJ segment broke in 1989, but caused many damages in SF marina due to liguifraction. I know. I was in San Francisco during the quake.
"The northern segment of the fault runs from Hollister, through the Santa Cruz Mountains, epicenter of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, then on up the San Francisco Peninsula, where it was first identified by Professor Lawson in 1895, then offshore at Pacifica at Mussel Rock. This is the approximate location of the epicenter of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The fault returns onshore at Bolinas Lagoon just north of Stinson Beach in Marin County."
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